Tag Archives: Windows

Apple, Google, Microsoft support new initiative of the FIDO Alliance for "Passwordless Sign-Ins

Posted on 2022-05-06 by guenni

[German]Yesterday, May 5, was "World Password Day" – and from this point of view, the announcement of the FIDO Alliance to make the Internet more secure and usable for everyone is only logical. The FIDO Alliance and the World Wide … Continue reading →

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Microsoft plans to phase out NetBIOS name resolution and LLMNR in the future

Posted on 2022-04-25 by guenni

[German]Microsoft plans to phase out support for the NetBIOS and LLMNR network protocols used for multicast name resolution in Windows in the future. Currently, this is already being tested in the last Windows Dev and Beta Insider builds. At a … Continue reading →

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Quick Assist: Intune certificate expired and TLS problems in Windows

Posted on 2022-04-22 by guenni

[German]Today a short collective post about remote support (Quick Assist) in Windows and Intune. As of April 21, 2022, a certificate for Quick Assist in Intune expired and there were certificate warnings. This should have been fixed by now. In … Continue reading →

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CISA Warning: Windows Print-Spooler Vulnerability CVE-2022-22718 actively exploited

Posted on 2022-04-21 by guenni

[German]The US Cyber in Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently added three more entries to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities. Among them is the vulnerability CVE-2022-22718 in the Windows print spooler, which affects virtually all Windows versions that are … Continue reading →

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MS-Patchday wrap-up: Issues with April 2022 updates

Posted on 2022-04-15 by guenni

[German]The security updates Microsoft released on April 12, 2022, has closed numerous vulnerabilities. In particular, the vulnerability CVE-2022-26809 is security-critical and should be patched promptly. The password loop caused by the March 2022 preview updates has also been fixed. But … Continue reading →

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

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (April 12, 2022)

Posted on 2022-04-12 by guenni

[German]On April 12, 2022, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, etc. – as well as for other products – were released. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on Patchday.

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Pitfall: Windows clients install updates past WSUS

Posted on 2022-04-11 by guenni

[German]There is occasional feedback here on the German and English blogs from administrators who use WSUS to control the distribution of updates to Windows clients, and complain that clients have surprisingly pulled updates past WSUS and installed them. The cause … Continue reading →

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Microsoft renames Windows/Android Apps "Your Phone" etc.

Posted on 2022-04-02 by guenni

[German]Microsoft ships with Windows 10/11 an app for communication between Android and Windows. This allows the screen of certain Android devices to be displayed on a Windows 10 system and the smartphone to be accessed. In a new blog post, … Continue reading →

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Rumor: Microsoft supports "Windows Mode" in Linux

Posted on 2022-04-01 by guenni

[German]This is a cool thing that Microsoft and the Linux developer community around Linus Torvalds are planning for the future. Up to now, Microsoft's developers have been tinkering with a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows, so that the … Continue reading →

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New security feature allows driver block lists in Windows 10, 11 and Windows Server

Posted on 2022-03-31 by guenni

[German]Microsoft is working on improving the protection of the current versions of Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2016 and their successors against harmful drivers. For this purpose, Windows Defender Application Control (only available in Enterprise editions) or HVCI … Continue reading →

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