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Windows 11 23H2: Rollout chaos; no copilot in Europe thanks to DMA
[German]As of September 26, 2023, Microsoft has started to distribute the "fall update" (internally called Moments 4 Update) for Windows 11 22H2. This is supposed to enable the feature upgrade to...
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Windows 10 update KB5030211 ships backup app to LTSC versions and frustrates...
[German]Microsoft has clearly lost track with the needs of its commercial users. The latest example is the backup app that Redmond flushed onto Windows 10 users' systems via a security update in...
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Windows 11 bug: Windows Explorer opens spontaneously in the foreground
[German]Microsoft is working on Windows 11 23H2, in which the Explorer provides some new features. But the old Explorer in Windows 11 still seems to be buggy. A German blog reader reported a bug in...
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Windows 11 22H2/23H2: September 2023 Preview Update KB5030310 forces shadow...
[German]Quite an unpleasant surprise that Microsoft has flushed onto the systems of its users of Windows 11 22H2 (and probably soon Windows 11 23H2) with the preview update KB5030310. Those using a...
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Windows 10/11: Upgrade path with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 keys no longer...
[German]Microsoft has now technically ended the upgrade option from Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. This means that the previously still possible activation with a...
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Windows 12: Is MS working on a Chrome OS killer?
[German]There have been hints for some time that Microsoft is working on the successor of Windows 11. The assumed "Windows 12" appears as an option in software and documents. Now there are again hints...
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Windows 10/11: Edge fills up the Temp folder with Edge_BITS_xxx files
[German]Microsoft has released preview updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on September 26, 2023. Edge also received updates. A reader has noticed that in his Windows "recently" the Temp folder is...
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Support for Windows Server 2012 / R2 and Windows 11 21H2 ends on October 10,...
[German]A small reminder for administrators of Windows Server 2012 / R2 systems: These will receive security updates for the last time on October 10, 2023 and will then regularly fall out of the...
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Windows 11 OOBE updates KB5030323 and KB5031274
[German]Addendum from September 2023. Microsoft has released the two OOBE updates KB5030323 and KB5031274 as of September 26, 2023, in addition to various preview updates for Windows 10 and 11. The...
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Windows 10: Update KB5001716 for update service components (Oct. 2022)
[German]Microsoft has released the update KB5001716 for machines with older Windows 10 versions on Oct. 3, 2023. The package updates the Update Service components so that the machine can be updated to...
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Windows September 2023 updates KB5030219 and KB5030310 are causing issues
[English]Various updates for Windows 10 and 11 were released by Microsoft in September. The cumulative update KB5030219 for Windows 11 22H2 from September 12, 2023 (patch day) causes a broken Start...
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Windows Server 2022: September update KB5030216 causes boot problems (also...
[German]I'm bringing up again an issue that has been bothering administrators for months, but probably hit some machines running Windows Server 2022 with the September 2023 security updates. After...
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Microsoft Security Update Summary (Oktober 10, 2023)
[German]On October 10, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 103 vulnerabilities, two are...
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Patchday: Windows 11/Server 2022 Updates (October 10, 2023)
[German]On October 10, 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...
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Windows 7/Server 2008 R2; Server 2012 R2: Updates (October 10, 2023)
[German]As of October 10, 2023, various security updates have been released for Windows Server 2008 R2 (in its 4th ESU year) and for Windows Server 2012/R2 (the updates may still install on Windows 7...
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Windows 10 Update KB5031356 fails with error 0x8007000D
[German]The security update KB5031356 released on October 10, 2023 for Windows 10 22H2 fails with installation error 0x8007000D for some users. Microsoft has admitted the issue as of October 13, 2023...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 is EOL; ESU license not for on-premises systems?
[German]After releasing the October 2023 updates, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 have reached their end of support; there will be no more security updates in the future – unless...
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Windows 10/11: Microsoft Defender can no longer be disabled
[German]I'm going to address an old issue that might affect administrators who are migrating clients to Windows 11. In some scenarios, applications run very slowly or the system or applications start...
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Windows 7/8.1 key no longer works for Win 10/11 upgrades; Office KMS key...
[German]Seit einigen Tagen ist irgendwie klar, dass keine Produktschlüssel von Windows 7 und Windows 8.1 mehr zur Neuaktivierung von Windows 10 und Windows 11 verwendet werden können. Microsoft hat...
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Windows 11 OOBE updates KB5030323 and KB5031274
[German]Addendum from September 2023. Microsoft has released the two OOBE updates KB5030323 and KB5031274 as of September 26, 2023, in addition to various preview updates for Windows 10 and 11. The...
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