Tag Archives: Update

Windows: Microsoft Workaround for ODBC SQL connection issues (Jan. 5, 2023)

Posted on 2023-01-06 by guenni

[German]Since the release of the November 2022 updates, issues can occur when accessing SQL databases. This has already been admitted by Microsoft. Here on the blog, readers had suggested a workaround in the form of an ODBC driver replacement. Now … Continue reading →

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Firefox 108.0.2 released; Mozilla freezes user agent string on Firefox 110 because of IE 11

Posted on 2023-01-06 by guenni

[German]The Mozilla developers have released version 108.0.3 of the Firefox browser on January 5, 2022. It is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix two bugs and also brings a small change under macOS. In addition, at this point … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Teams update process explained

Posted on 2023-01-06 by guenni

[German]Microsoft Teams does not update via Windows Update or via Office updates. Instead, the Teams client uses its own update strategy to keep itself current. Microsoft revealed some details about the Microsoft Teams update process in October 2022.

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Microsoft Office Updates (January 3, 2023)

Posted on 2023-01-04 by guenni

[German]As of January 3, 2023 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft has released non-security updates for still-supported versions of Microsoft Office. This month, there are only updates for Microsoft Office 2016, fixing crash errors in Access ODBC accesses and in … Continue reading →

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Windows 11: Update KB5021255 / KB5021234 cannot be installed

Posted on 2022-12-30 by guenni

[German]There are reports from Windows 11 users about issues installing Dec. 13, 2022 security updates KB5021255 (Windows 11 22H2) or KB5021234 (Windows 11 21H2). A German blog reader has contacted me because in his company all Windows 11 clients refuse … Continue reading →

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

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Windows Server 2019/2022: Out-of-Band Updates fixes Hyper-V Issue (Dec. 20, 2022)

Posted on 2022-12-21 by guenni

[German]The security updates rolled out by Microsoft on the December 2022 patchday lead to problems with Hyper-V in certain constellations. New VMs can no longer be created, existing VMs have problems with Ethernet connections, etc. Microsoft has now released a … Continue reading →

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Direct Access Issues fixed with Dec. 2022 Updates

Posted on 2022-12-21 by guenni

[German]The security updates from November 8, 2022 for Windows, caused Direct Access connection issues. Microsoft had already confirmed this for Windows 10 and Windows 11 as of November 13, 2022, and wrote, that preview updates from October 2022 was the … Continue reading →

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Windows 10: Sept. 2022 preview updates cause shell issues with taskbar, start menu, explorer

Posted on 2022-12-19 by guenni

[German]Since the rollout of security update KB5018410 from Oct. 11, 2022 (or even through the Sept. 2022 preview update), issues with the taskbar, Start menu, apps and also Windows Explorer can occur under Windows 10 (20H2 to 22H2). Microsoft has … Continue reading →

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Windows 11 22H2: December 2022 update (12/13/2022) fixes Task Manager display issues

Posted on 2022-12-19 by guenni

[German]The preview update from November 29, 2022, had caused a display issue in the task manager of Windows 11 22H2. Its display could hardly be read in certain display constellations – a German user notified me in a comment within … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 20H2-22H2: Update KB5021233 from 13. Dec. 2022 causes BlueScreen

Posted on 2022-12-19 by guenni

[English]The security updates released on Dec. 13, 2022, are causing serious issues for some users. The .NET framework updates cause issues with graphics printing (I've addressed it within my German blog post .Net Update vom 13. Dez. 2022 verursacht Druckprobleme … Continue reading →

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