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June 2018 Patchday: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
[German]Has a KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED Blue Screen recently appeared on your Windows systems? Could have something to do with the June 2018 patchday and the Spectre NG update. On June 12, 2018,...
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Fix: Windows 10 hangs in update installation loop
[German]Windows 10 (and earlier versions of Windows, if applicable) fails in some situation during update installation may be forced into an update install loop. In this blog post I try to sketch what...
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Patched Edge Wavethrough bug revealed web sites content
[German]A bug in Microsoft’s Edge browser may have enabled attackers to retrieve the content of other websites that are open in browser tabs. Here are a few details. As I read here, Jake Archibald, a...
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Windows 10: No support for Microsoft Store un- and re-install
[German]Important information for users and administrators of Windows 10, Microsoft says in a new KB article that uninstalling the Microsoft Store in Windows 10 and reinstalling it later is not...
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Windows 7/8.1 Preview Rollup Updates (June 2018)
[German]Microsoft has released the preview rollups KB4284842 for Windows 7 SP1 and KB4284863 for Windows 8.1 on June 19, 2018 (Tuesday). Here is an overview of these updates. I don’t know if my...
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Outlook 2016: Search doesn’t returns results
[German]Microsoft Outlook users may run into the issue, that a search in all mailboxes or address books no longer return results. This is probably due to a recently installed update. A search in...
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Windows 10 V1607-V1709: Updates vom 21. Juni 2018
[German]Microsoft has released several updates for Windows 10 Anniversary Update (V1607), Windows 10 Spring Creators Update (V1703) and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (V1709) as of June 21, 2018. Here...
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Adobe Acrobat Prof XI kills Internet Explorer favorites
[German]Today still a short contribution, to which a Blog reader drew my attention. The Adobe Acrobat Prof XI probably has side effects with Internet Explorer 11, where the favorites can no longer be...
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WSUS: Microsoft Update Catalog Import failure
[German]Microsoft has already admitted an issue with WSUS 5.0 (Windows Server 2016) in March 2018. Some or all Updates can’t be imported from the Microsoft Update Catalog in WSUS. Administrators in...
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Survey: Satisfaction with Windows Update in Business?
Small hint for administrators who (must) responsible for distributing Windows updates in business environments. There is a survey (not from Microsoft, but from MVP colleague Susan Bradley), which deals...
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Windows 10 V1803: Update KB4284848 (June 26, 2018)
[English]Microsoft released the cumulative update KB4284848 for Windows 10 April Update (V1803) on June 26, 2018. Here are some hints what the update changes. And there has been a Servicing Stack...
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PSA: Windows 10 V1803: Update KB4284848 brings SMBv1 fix
[German]Microsoft has kept its word and delivered the fix for the broken SMBv1 protocol in Windows 10 April Update (V1803) with update KB4284848 in June 2018. What’s the SMBv1 issue? Microsoft had...
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Windows 10 V1803: Update KB4315567
[German]Microsoft has released an ominous update KB4315567 for Windows 10 V1803 Enterprise on June 26, 2018. But what is behind this ominous update? I don’t really understand Microsoft’s update...
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.SettingContent-ms files put Windows 10 at risk
[German]Microsoft has introduced a new file format (.SettingContent-ms) for Windows 10 in 2015. However, this file format proves to be a weak point, as any commands and applications can be defined for...
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17704 released
Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17704 for PCs in Fast Ring. The announcement has been made within the Windows Blog. There are a number of new features for the Microsoft Edge...
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Windows Defender reports Trojans as false positives
[German]Users of Windows seem to have been startled in the last few weeks by false alarms from Windows Defender. Defender suddenly believed to have detected the Trojan Win32/Bluteal.B!rfn in regular...
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Windows 10 V1803: mstscax.dll and error 0x80071779
[German]Windows 10 April Update (V1803) seems to have several issues in the area of the network and RDP connections. It seams that no NIC adapter bindings for the network can be uninstalled via GUI....
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Windows 7 Defender won’t receive updates (June 2018)
[German]Just a brief note: It seems, that Windows Defender won’t receive automatic updates since a few days (June 18th 2018). But there are defender updates available, as a search for updates confirms....
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Windows Server 2016: May 2018 Update bricks sfc
[German]Just a brief message for administrators supporting Windows Server 2016 installations. A cumulative update from May 2018 causes the System File Checker command sfc to stop working. June 2018...
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Microsoft’s Project Andromeda – Dual-Screen-Surface?
[German]So far I haven’t written about all rumors on Microsoft’s project Andromeda. Now, however, there are new information that concretizes some things. Microsoft’s Project Andromeda could be a...
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