[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5044380 for Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2 on October 22, 2024. This is an optional update whose fixes will be generally rolled out in the following month. For Windows 11 22H2, only the Education and Enterprise versions will receive the update.
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[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5045594 for Windows 10 22H2 on October 22, 2024 (D-Week). This introduces the Account Manager in Windows 10 and fixes some bugs, including in the area of printers. Below is an overview of these updates for Windows 10.
[German]Users who have updated their compatible devices to Windows 11 24H2 may suffer from crashes if NVMe SSDs from Western Digital and Sandisk are installed. Both SSD manufacturers have now released firmware updates to prevent these crashes of the new operating system.
[German]On October 8, 2024, Microsoft released the cumulative update KB5044273 for Windows 10 22H2. With this update, shortcuts have been given a new tab. However, this change leads to memory errors when displaying the shortcut properties in certain constellations.
[German]Owners of ASUS computers that appear to be formally compatible with Windows 11 24H2 will still not receive the feature upgrade. In the spirit of "the unexpected often happens", Microsoft has discovered that installation is failing on some devices from the manufacturer ASUS. Redmond has therefore set an upgrade blocker until the problem is resolved.
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[German]Brief addition to the series of problems with Windows 11 24H2, freshly released on October 1, 2024. Anyone using the camera on a system with this operating system runs the risk of other apps no longer working. This can affect, for example, logging in using Windows Hello. Microsoft confirmed this overnight (October 18, 2024) on its status page.
[German]Briefreminder for administrators – who certainly have the topic on their agenda: Microsoft will end support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Azure on October 31, 2024.
[German]I am once again posting an unpleasant data breach on the blog that affects lessees in Europe. A reader has informed me that reduced value reports from TÜV Rheinland and Dekra inspectors are freely available on the Internet. It is therefore very easy to see when which vehicle was returned with which defects at the end of the leasing contract. Includes vehicle data and also personal data of the assessor. I reported the matter to the relevant data protection authorities in August, but nothing happened, so I am now disclosing it.
[German]An unpleasant story happened at German online retailer brillen.de. Due to a configuration error, the data of 3.5 million European customers was openly available on the Internet. It was therefore possible to see who had bought glasses there. Following a report, the provider quietly closed the leak.
[German]In Windows 11 24H2, Disk Management displays a data area of approx. 8.3 GB that was left over from the installation but cannot be deleted. Microsoft has now confirmed that this data area is displayed incorrectly and cannot be deleted.
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