Windows 11 22H2: Preview-Update KB5025305 (April 25, 2023)
[German]Microsoft has released optional cumulative (preview) update KB5025305 for Windows 11 version 22H2 as of April 25, 2023. The update distributes a number of new features/bug fixes. Below I...
View ArticleWindows 11 21H2 Preview Update KB5025298 (April 25, 2023)
[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5025298 for Windows 11 version 21H2 on April 25, 2023. There are a number of new features and especially a long list of bug...
View ArticleWindows Server 2022: Microsoft eases licensing rules a bit
[German]Microsoft slightly relaxed the licensing rules for Windows Server 2022 in early April to correct some annoyances and better keep up with the competition. For example, the requirement that VMs...
View ArticleMicrosoft confirms: 22H2 is the final Windows 10 version, Windows 11 LTSC...
[German]Microsoft tried to tell people in a techcommunity post a few hours ago that Windows 10 version 22H2 is the last version of this operating system and that you should kindly switch to Windows 11....
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleWindows 11: Defender LSA bug fixed by "removing settings", and more...
[German]Microsoft's unconventional solution for the so-called LSA bug caused by a Defender update in Windows 11. Users got to see the message "Local Security Authority protection is disabled …", but...
View ArticleInvalid URLs in wsusscn2.cab (KB5023706, KB5025239) after UUP conversion
[English]At the end of March 2023, Windows 11 switched to UUP. This seems to have led to collateral damage, as a blog reader told me this week. As a result, the offline package wsusscn2.cab is shipped...
View ArticleWindows hardening: Guidances and key dates 2023
[English]Small reminder for administrators in the Windows environment. In 2023, Microsoft will continue to implement various hardening measures for Windows systems (DCOM authentication, Kerberos,...
View ArticleOutlook and Teams to open links soon in Edge by default
[German]Microsoft's bullying of users is going into the next round. Redmond wants to open web links in the Outlook for Windows app and in Microsoft Teams in the Edge browser by default. And this is to...
View ArticleWindows Update Service components update KB4023057 May 2023
[German]Have you been offered the update KB4023057 (Update Service component) under Windows 10/11 in the last days? Last week, I came across a few messages on the web – and German blog reader Volker...
View ArticleMicrosoft offers Email notification about known Windows bugs for IT...
[German]Microsoft provides information about known bugs and issues in Windows 10, 11 and Windows Server 2022 in the Known Issues category of its Windows Release Health status page. However,...
View ArticleWindows 11 22H2: Bug in speech recognition by update KB5022913
[German]It is an exotic bug that Microsoft has just confirmed for Windows 11 22H2. After installing the update KB5022913, there can be sporadic problems in the language recognition of the operating...
View ArticleWindows 11 22H2: April 2023 Update KB5025239 is causing issues
[German]As of April 2023, update KB5025239 for Windows 11 22H2 was released and fixes several vulnerabilities (including a remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2023-21554, see QueueJumper: Patch...
View ArticleWindows 10/11: ResampleDmo.dll missing/not found
[German]Users of Windows 10 – and especially Windows 11 – sometimes get the error message that the library ResampleDmo.dll was not found when starting applications. After I recently came across a...
View ArticleFSLogix blocks OneDrive synchronization in virtual machines
[German]Brief note for administrators who use FSLogix in the company on the one hand, but virtualize Windows instances on the other. In this combination, synchronization problems with OneDrive may...
View ArticleWindows and the cURL trap; deleted curl instance breaks Windows update
[German]Microsoft delivers the cURL library with the operating system since Windows 10. However, Redmond does not manage to update the delivered cURL version promptly when security vulnerabilities...
View ArticleMicrosoft Security Compliance Toolkit 1.0 –"the dark side"
[German]At the beginning of April 2023, Microsoft released a new version of its Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit 1.0. Actually, it is a compulsory exercise for administrators in companies to deal...
View ArticleMicrosoft Security Update Summary (May 9, 2023)
[German]On May 9, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates fix 37 CVE vulnerabilities, six of which...
View ArticlePatchday: Windows 10-Updates (May 9, 2023)
[German]On May 9, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from RTM version to current version) as well...
View ArticlePatchday: Windows 11/Server 2022-Updates (May 9, 2023)
[German]On May 9, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft patch day), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for Windows 11 22H1 and 22H2. In addition, Windows Server 2022 received an update....
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