Botched Updates KB4025252 and KB4025336 (July 2017)

Microsoft has released on July 11, 2017 two botched updates KB4025252 and KB4025336 for Internet Explorer and Windows 8.1. Here's what's wrong with these updates. Addendum: It seems that an update revision fixed some install issues.

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Microsoft July 2017 patch day

Microsoft has released on July 11, 2017 a couple of cumulative updates for Windows 10, Rollup Updates for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 and some other updates for Internet Explorer, .Net Framework and so on.

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Microsoft Outlook: Fix for iCloud Sync problem

[German]Users of Microsoft Outlook are facing a problem: Syncing with iCloud fails after installing June 13, 2017 security updates. Here a few details and some fixes.

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Office Patchday (July 5, 2017)

[German]Microsoft has released a couple of non security updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 2016 on July 5, 2017. Here are a few details about that Office July 2017 patchday. 

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Fixing Microsoft Outlook issues after June 2017 Update

[German]It seems that Microsoft is fixing some issues observed in Outlook after installing Office security updates from June 13, 2017. Here is an overview what has been fixed. Addendum: Microsoft has pulled the updates to fix this issue for Outlook 2010/2013/2016 on July 12, 2017.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...


Fixing Microsoft Outlook Search Bug after June 2017 Update

[German]After installing Microsoft's Office security updates, released June 13, 2017, expecting issues with Microsoft Outlook search. Now it seems, that this issue has been fixed. Here are the details.

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Windows Insider MVP-Award

[German]Just a short information. Microsoft has granted the Windows Insider MVP 2017 award to me. It's the 2nd Windows Insider MVP award, after I received Windows Consumer MVP awards in 2013, 2014, 2015.

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LibreOffice 5.3.4 released

The LibreOffice team has released at June 26, 2017 LibreOffice version 5.3.4. This is a free Office suite available for Linux, macOS and Windows. Details about the 5.3 branch may be found here within the release notes. Download is available from this LibreOffice page.

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Linux Mint 18.2 ‘Sonya’ released

The Ubuntu based Linux distribution Mint has been released as version 18.2 on Jun 2, 2017. Mint V18.2 (Sonya) is available with desktop environments KDE, Xfce and Mate.

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The Shadow Brokers: June Dump with Exploits delivered to subscribers and more …

[German]It seems, that hacking group the Shadow Brokers has send out the first dump of June Exploits to subscribers. And there are further announcements like Jule subscription and a 'VIP service', and more.

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