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- Stephane MONIER on Microsoft Word 365/2021 crashes (April 7, 2025)
- fd on Update KB5002623 with fixes for Office 2016 crashes available via WSUS (April 15, 2025)
- Anonymous on Word/Excel 2016 crashing after April 2025 update KB5002700
- Ed on Windows 11 24H2: Outlook notification window opens mails in the background – Microsoft investigates
- StanG on Windows 11 22H2/23H2: Special update KB5058919 (April 11, 2025)
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- Stephane MONIER on Microsoft Word 365/2021 crashes (April 7, 2025)
- fd on Update KB5002623 with fixes for Office 2016 crashes available via WSUS (April 15, 2025)
- Anonymous on Word/Excel 2016 crashing after April 2025 update KB5002700
- Ed on Windows 11 24H2: Outlook notification window opens mails in the background – Microsoft investigates
- StanG on Windows 11 22H2/23H2: Special update KB5058919 (April 11, 2025)
Tag Archives: Microsoft
Is the Microsoft 365 email quarantine broken?
[German]A quick question for Microsoft 365 administrators with Exchange Online tenants. A reader is struggling with the problem that mails are sorted into quarantine at his customers and asks whether this function is broken (presumably already since January 5, 2024). … Continue reading
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Microsoft hacked by Russian Midnight Blizzard; emails exfiltrated since Nov. 2023
[German]Microsoft has been successfully hacked by the Russian state hacker group Midnight Blizzard, also known as Nobelium. This was noticed on January 12, 2024, but the hackers were probably in the systems for months and were able to view and … Continue reading
Data leak: Microsoft AI researchers lose 38 TBytes of internal data via GitHub/Azure cloud storage
[German]Next data leak and security incident at Microsoft: Security researchers at Wiz have stumbled upon 38 terabytes of private internal data stored on an Azure Cloud Store instance via a public Microsoft AI GitHub repository. Access was enabled by a … Continue reading
Microsoft as a Security Risk? U.S. senator calls for Microsoft to be held accountable over Azure cloud hack- Part 1
[German]Is Microsoft and its handling of vulnerabilities in its products now the "top cyber risk"? The hack of Microsoft Azure services by the suspected Chinese group Storm-0558, made possible by a stolen private MSA key, seems to have been the … Continue reading
Microsoft has published the TokenTheft playbook
[German]Small note to administrators who are responsible for or manage services and applications in the (Microsoft) cloud. The theft of tokens can enable attackers to access the corresponding services. As a result of a corresponding incident, Microsoft has therefore published … Continue reading
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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 ...
Microsoft 365 Apps are getting a unified cloud.microsoft domain
[German]Brief information for administrators of Microsoft solutions in companies. Microsoft wants to standardize the domain names previously used to access cloud functions, such as outlook.com, live.com, microsoft365.com, office.com, onenote.com, etc., in the future and make them accessible via sub-domains under … Continue reading
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Microsoft receives the German Big Brother Award 2023 for its "life's work"
[German]Microsoft received the German Big Brother Award 2023 for its "life's work" yesterday, April 28, 2023, because it uses its market power to force people, companies and public authorities to constantly transmit data during their digital activities, thereby making themselves … Continue reading
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An exchanged computer locks users out of Microsoft OneDrive account and prevented to register MS Office..
[German]It's a rather crude case that German blog reader Thomas has just put "on the table" for me. There was a need to change the computer running Windows – I don't know the details. Following this action, the user found … Continue reading
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Microsoft sends account closure emails for inactivity to wrong users (2023)
[German]It is well known that Microsoft closes user accounts if they have not been used for a long time. It is also well known that phishers try to lure victims with "account closure" mails to sites for harvesting credentials. However, … Continue reading
Microsoft services (Outlook, OneDrive, Teams etc. has been down (Jan. 25, 2023)
[German]Short remark for the morning (here in Europe) of January 25, 2023: As it looks right now (09:00 UTC), Microsoft is experiencing a major disruption to its online services such as Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, LinkedIn, etc., which have been unavailable … Continue reading