Tag Archives: Update

Windows 7: Preparing for ESU and license activation – Part 2

[German]In Part 1 of this series of articles, I outlined how customers can purchase and manage a Windows 7 SP1 Extended Security Updates (ESU) license. In part 2 I'll show you how to prepare Windows 7 SP1 to activate the … Continue reading

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Firefox 72 and 68.4.0esr released

[German]Mozilla's developers have just released (January 7, 2020) version 72 (and 68.4.0 ESR) of the Firefox browser. This is a major version and the 68.4.0 ISR is a maintenance update. Both versions close a number of security holes. Here is … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office Patchday (January 7, 2020)

[German]On January 7, 2020 (first Tuesday of the month. Office Patchday) Microsoft released a series of non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office (this time only for Office 2016) that are still supported.

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Windows 7: Buy and manage ESU licenses – Part 1

[German]On January 14, 2020 Windows 7 SP1 reaches End of Life. Business customers can order Windows 7 SP1 Extended Security Updates (ESU). In this blog post, I'll show in detail what customers from small and medium businesses (SMB) need to … Continue reading

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Windows 10 Update drops error 0x80070490

[German]Windows 10 users may fascing an updates install error 0x80070490. A blog reader recently pointed out a case for this issues with November and December 2019 cumulative updates and outlined how he could solve this.

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

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Vulnerability in NVIDIA GeForce Experience App closed

[German]Vendor NVIDIA has closed a chess hole (DDOS or Privilege Escalation) in its NVIDIA GeForce Experience app with an update. 

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Exchange 2016/2019 quarterly Updates

Microsoft released the quarterly update for Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 a few days ago. These updates include fixes for issues reported by customers and all previously released security updates. Setup now requires .NET Framework 4.8. Microsoft released details on … Continue reading

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Adobe Reader DC 19.021.20061 Hotfix Update

[German]A brief message for users of Adobe Reader DC under macOS and Windows. Adobe has provided a hotfix update that raises the Reader DC to version 19.021.20061. The update addresses some bugs in the product and is available for macOS … Continue reading

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Thunderbird 68.3.1, support Upgrade from 60.x

[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird have now released version 68.3.1. This is a maintenance update for the 68 main version of the e-mail client, which allows an update from version 60.x.

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Sysinternals tools modules updated (12/2019)

[German]The Sysinternals tools are a small collection of helpful tools for Windows, which Microsoft employee Mark Russinovich offers for free and updates from time to time. In December, individual modules from this collection were updated.

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