[German]Just a brief warning to users of Microsoft Office 365: You are probably once again in the focus of a phishing campaign. This campaign takes advantage of the license changes for Office 365 that will take effect on October 2, 2018. The aim is to hijack the victims' Office 365 online accounts. So warn family members and employees.
[German]In addition to extended (paid) support for Windows 7 until January 2023 (see Wow! Windows 7 get extended support until January 2023), Microsoft announced a change in the Windows 10 support model. There is now 30 months of support for new Windows 10 Autumn builds. For all other new Windows 10 builds there is 18 months support – except for the old builds (and a few other limitations).
[German]Hey, I feel just Wow! Because Microsoft just announced, that Windows 7 will be supported until 2023. Isn't that a good news for admins in enterprise environments?
[German]Just a brief short note for administrators in WSUS environments observing synchronization failures since a few days. It's not your WSUS, it's probably caused by broken Office 2016 updates.
[German]If you use the MEGA Chrome extension for the file sharing cloud service Mega , you may have a problem. The extension has been hacked to steal credentials.
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[German]Today once again a short excursion into the world of Linux. The developer community of Linux Mint have already released the version LMDE 3 "Cindy" Cinnamon on August 31, 2018. This is a Debian-based development project for Linux Mint.
[German]Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 Office 2016 on September 4, 2018. All updates are for the installable MSI version of Office (the click-to-run packages obtain updates through other channels). These non-security updates are documented on this website and in the linked KB articles.
[German]Users of Avast antivirus solutions seem to have been experiencing issues on Windows since late August 2018. This is probably due to an update to version 18.6.2349, which was released for Avast on August 28/29, 2018.
While we in Europe are starting into a working week, in the USA is a public holiday – Labor Day, always on the first Monday in September.
Today I like to share a short info about a kickstarter project, for which I was made aware last week. The idea: Stream hardware/performance from a high-end PC to a lightweight and affordable notebook via Stream OS. The first step is to develop a stream OS based on Linux. Details of the campaign can be found at kickstarter (deleted).
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
