Migrated from old website (first published Jan 14, 2020) As written today on Forbes and confirmed by Microsoft, big spoofing vulnerability in the CryptoAPI was found by NSA in Windows 10, Server 2016 and Server 2019. The CryptoAPI, (crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. I recommend you to install todays security patch for Windows... Continue Reading →
How To: Remove unused default apps with Intune
Migrated from old website (first published Oct 6, 2019) Have you ever thinked and searched on how you can easy uninstall/remove the Windows 10 default apps from the devices in an Intune managed environment using Windows Autopilot? Many of my customers have solved this as well as in the environment where System Center Configuration Manager... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Teams: Screen sharing with Skype for Business interop
Migrated from old website (first published Aug 19, 2019) As we all know, one of the reasons why certain companies are not completely transitioning to Microsoft Teams is the interoperability between Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. Microsoft is working on several solutions to eliminate interoperability issues. One of these is the option of screen... Continue Reading →
Office 365: Retiring TLS 1.0 and 1.1
Migrated from old website (first published Jul 24, 2019) As Microsoft already communicated in October 2017 (MC124104), December 2017 (MC126199) and February 2018 (MC128929), they announced again the move of all their online services to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2+ to provide best-in-class encryption, and to ensure their service is more secure by default. In... Continue Reading →
How to: Set time server on PDC
Migrated from old website (first published May 3, 2019) Clients and servers in a domain/forest synchronizes her time from a domain controller. The domain controller itself synchronizes his time from the PDC (primary domain controller). And what about the PDC (primary domain controller)? Where does he synchronize his time from? The answer is, he synchronizes... Continue Reading →
How to: Install secondary domain controller as server core
Migrated from old website (first published May 3, 2019) You have a domain with one or more domain controllers (with desktop experience) already installed. Now you need to install a new domain controller and want to have less effort for updates and better security. Your choice should be a server core installation. Let's see what... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Certified Trainer – I made it
Migrated from old website (first published Jan 18, 2019) After working in computer science for more than 10 years, started in IT Support, Server Administration, System Engineering and now ICT Architecture, I earned the certification as Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) just a few days ago. I always had the chance to learn from other employees,... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Azure & Office 365 login issue (multi-factor authentication)
Migrated from old website (first published Nov 19, 2018) Actually, there are some issues when users want to connect to Azure and Office 365 resources. If they have multi-factor authentication enabled, they aren't able to login, because Microsoft has a bigger problem with the service, as they write on the status pages. As Microsoft writes... Continue Reading →
Windows 10 Version 1809 Issues
Migrated from old website (first published Oct 6, 2018) The October 2nd, 2018 Microsoft has released the new Upgrade of Windows 10, the Version 1809. In multiple Blogs we can read, that there are actually several issues with this release. DON'T INSTALL AT THE MOMENT! At the release date, Microsoft and also Intel posted some... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Exchange 2019 – Ignite 2018
Migrated from old website (first published Sep 26, 2018) Exchange 2019 is on its way! In e few months in 2018, Microsoft will release the RTM for Exchange 2019, which was released in June 2018 as preview. What are the key changes in Exchange 2019? And what options will be offered to you by Microsoft?... Continue Reading →




