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Microsoft Admin Center down – there are certificate errors (Oct. 9, 2025)
[German]Brief information for administrators of Microsoft Cloud services. If someone cannot access the Microsoft Admin Center, it is not your fault. Since around 10:30 a.m., the Microsoft Admin Center has been down globally because a certificate expired. This comes after … Continue reading
Austrian Armed Forces goes open source (LibreOffice)
[German]The Austrian Armed Forces have switched from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, an open source project. The reasons for this were not the licensing costs, but rather Redmond's "cloud push" and the army's desire for digital sovereignty.
Vulnerability CVE-2025-55241 in Entra ID enabled global admin takeover in tenants
[German]A brief update from this week: On September 17, 2025, details of the CVE-2025-55241 vulnerability in Microsoft Entra ID were made public. This vulnerability would have allowed any attacker to obtain tokens enabling them to assume the global administrator role … Continue reading
Unauthorized logins to Microsoft accounts despite 2FA – Part 2
[German]It's a crude situation that I still can't quite wrap my head around. I got reports form users, that for several weeks now, third parties have been accessing Microsoft accounts, as can be seen in their activity history. The users … Continue reading
Microsoft restricts China's early access via MAPPS to vulnerabilities
[German]Teir China connections seem to have once again "come back to haunt" at Microsoft. I have come across reports that Microsoft no longer grants security researchers from China early access to zero-day vulnerabilities or proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits. The SharePoint incident … Continue reading
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
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Microsoft on new Universal Print features
[German]Microsoft announces Universal Print Anywhere A quick update from this week. Microsoft has announced that Universal Print Anywhere is now generally available. With this new feature, users can print securely from any location and retrieve their documents from any printer … Continue reading
New insights on SharePoint Gate: Microsoft uses employees from China for maintenance
[German]Since the SharePoint disaster in July 2025, in which vulnerabilities were exploited, there have been new revelations almost every day. It has been speculated that suspected Chinese hackers were able to access internal descriptions of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint … Continue reading
Sovereign EU cloud debacle: Microsoft cannot prevent US access
[German]Microsoft has inflated a huge balloon with regard to European cloud offerings. Data centers in Europe, a "European Microsoft cloud" for digital sovereignty. And then a Microsoft manager had to admit under oath that this does not protect against access … Continue reading
Digital sovereignty: EU cloud; Microsoft exit in Danish digital ministry; true cost of Windows 11
[German]The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is saying goodbye to Microsoft and will move (probably to Linux and) to LibreOffice in near future – thanks to Trump. And the LibreOffice makers have set their sights on Windows 11 in order … Continue reading
Active user count stagnate with Microsoft's CoPilot and increase with OpenAI ChatGPT
[German]Sobering figures and a "slap in the face for Microsoft". Their CoPilot, offered by Sauer-Bier, has been stuck at 20 million weekly users for a year now. OpenAI, on the other hand, can look back on increasing user numbers with … Continue reading