Tag Archives: Cloud

Nextcloud files competition complaint against Microsoft over OneDrive and Teams in Windows 11

Posted on 2021-11-27 by guenni

[German]Stuttgart-based software company Nextcloud has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft with the German Federal Cartel Office. The accusation is that Microsoft has a dominant market position and is exploiting it. It is about the integration of OneDrive and Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365: Service has been down (2021/11/02)

Posted on 2021-11-03 by guenni

On Nov. 2, 2021, Microsoft experienced a disruption in Microsoft 365 services that blocked users from accessing OneDrive and SharePoint files. This prevented users from opening Excel files stored on OneDrive or SharePoint. Meanwhile, Microsoft states that the issue has … Continue reading →

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SmarterASP.net Server down in Europe – what's going on?

Posted on 2021-10-18 by guenni

[German]A brief message for people who host ASP applications at the provider smarterasp.net. I have just been informed from Belgium by a user that there is a serious disruption there and it was asked if they were victims of a … Continue reading →

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German OSB Alliance warns: Microsoft Cloud threatens digital sovereignty

Posted on 2021-10-11 by guenni

[German]Microsoft is working to force users – especially in enterprise IT – onto subscription models and cloud connectivity. From 2025, many on-premises offerings will be phased out and the compulsion to the cloud will then be de facto. This will … Continue reading →

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Ransomware in the cloud: Detecting attacks

Posted on 2021-09-12 by guenni

[German]According to Yahoo! Finance, around 65,000 ransomware attacks are expected this year in the US alone. It doesn't seem to matter what region, country or industry it happens in. Security vendor Vectra provided me with some thoughts on how to … Continue reading →

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

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Why you may not be able to decommission on-premises Exchange even with cloud solutions

Posted on 2021-09-12 by guenni

[German]If I understand correctly, many companies are moving towards the cloud. The hope is that once the on-premises Exchange functions are moved to the cloud in Exchange Online, the on-premises solutions will be gone. The other day I came across … Continue reading →

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Next Azure container vulnerability allowed data theft

Posted on 2021-09-09 by guenni

[German]Microsoft issued a warning to its Azure customers about a security vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to access data. The punchline: It involved containers whose code had a known vulnerability that had not been patched. Microsoft has now updated … Continue reading →

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Microsofts Cloud PC "failed provisioning" error during Windows 365 setup

Posted on 2021-08-05 by guenni

[German]A short information tidbit about Microsoft's Cloud PC and issues during setting up Windows 365. The cloud service is only available since a few days (see Windows 365 released) and Microsoft has already had to suspend the provisioning of the … Continue reading →

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News from Microsoft's Cloud PC

Posted on 2021-07-13 by guenni

[German]It has been speculated for quite some time that Microsoft is working on a so-called cloud PC (see Is Microsoft planning a 'Windows 10 Cloud-PC' for 2021?). However, a launch in spring 2021 has definitely not taken place and Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Fire in Amazon data center? Blink cameras no longer work

Posted on 2021-06-11 by guenni

[German]Blink is the series name of surveillance cameras from Amazon that can be found in many households. I am a bit suspicious of the Blink surveillance cameras, since they involve Amazon via a user account. But there's more to come. … Continue reading →

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