Spoofing Vulnerability CryptoAPI (CVE-2020-0601)

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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