[German]ASUS tried to surprise its users and sent them a special Christmas greeting with the file name christmas.exe. Of course, it has been known for years that .exe Christmas greetings should not be sent for security reasons. ASUS managed to scare the hell out of its users in 2024. Let them thinking that a virus was running rampant on their Windows systems. Now many users are really pissed of.
[German]I'm posting an observation from a German blog reader that relates to Microsoft's Exchange Online. The reader is confronted with the problem of complaints from business partners about emails that have not "arrived". There is a suspicion that Exchange Online may be manipulating the email senders.
[German]Recently, Microsoft acknowledged problems with devices that use the eSCL scan protocol under Windows 11 24H2. This also affects USB scanners that simply cannot be found if they use the eSCL scan protocol. Microsoft claims to have fixed this error. Furthermore, device manufacturer updates should be tested in the event of scanner problems.
[German]The cumulative updates published by Microsoft on December 10, 2024 appear to be causing problems for some Windows 11 users. There is talk of the Start menu no longer responding and other problems. There does not yet seem to be a remedy – and there will be no preview updates for December 2024.
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[German]The Proxmox developers have released an alpha version of the Proxmox Datacenter Manager. The project has been developed entirely in the Rust programming language, from the backend API server to the CLI tools and a completely new front end. Continue reading
[German]There was a problem with the activation of Microsoft 365 apps. Users are noticing since months that the (Office) apps from are subscription are spontaneously deactivated and can then no longer be used. Microsoft has published a support article about this and wrote that they investigating the issue. On December 20, 2024 they announced, that they rolled out a fix.
[German]Strange story – there are currently an increasing number of reports from users who claim to have received an Edge update before the weekend. After that, folder icons of the favorites are displayed transparently. I did some research after I came across the information on the patch management list on Sunday.
[German]Small addendum for administrators of FortiOS systems. A few days ago, a fix was released for a known bug in FortiOS version 7.4.6. A reader pointed it out to me.
[German]Last Friday (20. Dec. 2024) some Discord users are founding out that their Discord accounts have been locked. The received a mail about that and a password reset helps to regain access to the service. If my information is correct, this could be related to a Discord data leak or hack, because someone claimed that.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
