Category Archives: Cloud

Russian internet provider Nodex (St. Petersburg) hacked and systems wiped

Posted on 2025-01-09 by guenni

[German]Internet providers and their systems are the focus of hackers. The Russian internet provider Nodex, which is based in St. Petersburg, also found this out when it fell victim to a cyber attack (presumably from Ukraine). Data was extracted from … Continue reading →

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Message Trace in Exchange Online as Preview

Posted on 2024-12-31 by guenni

[German]Small addendum to Exchange Online. Microsoft has released the preview for "Message Trance" in Exchange Online on December 16, 2024. The function should be activated for all tenants by the end of December 2024. Administrators will then be able to … Continue reading →

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Edgio bankruptcy: Microsoft changes endpoints for .NET, PowerShell scripts and Win32 apps

Posted on 2024-12-30 by guenni

[German]Small addendum from 27.12.2024. Microsoft was forced to change the download addresses for .NET, PowerShell scripts and Win32 applications at this time. The background to this is the insolvency of Edgio (Limelight Networks).

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VW data leak: terabytes of location data from electric vehicles on AWS

Posted on 2024-12-27 by guenni

[German]The VW Group is at the center of a data scandal in which recorded location data from 800,000 electric vehicles amounting to terabytes was accessible from the cloud. On the one hand, the incident shows what data vehicle manufacturers collect. … Continue reading →

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Does Microsoft Exchange Online change the e-mail sender?

Posted on 2024-12-26 by guenni

[German]I'm posting an observation from a German blog reader that relates to Microsoft's Exchange Online. The reader is confronted with the problem of complaints from business partners about emails that have not "arrived". There is a suspicion that Exchange Online … Continue reading →

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Amazon pauses Microsoft 365 rollout due to security concerns after hack

Posted on 2024-12-17 by guenni

[German]In 2023, Microsoft had to admit to hacks of its Exchange Online and Azure services. Bloomberg is now reporting that Amazon has paused its plans to roll out Microsoft 365 in the company. This is due to security concerns following … Continue reading →

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Windows 11 24H2 with Outlook and Exchange: AD user accounts are suddenly blocked

Posted on 2024-12-13 by guenni

[German]Recently a blog reader left a comment within this blog, dealing with an issue in Windows 11 24H2 combined with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. He noticed that user accounts in the Active Directory are being blocked suddenly on a recurring … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365 SAS-URL import error 500 fixed

Posted on 2024-12-05 by guenni

[German]Since November 2024, the PST import into a Microsoft 365 tenant using a SAS URL was broken. The import process was aborted with an error 500. Microsoft seems to have fixed the problem as of December 3, 2024.

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Deye deactivates solar inverters in USA, UK and Pakistan

Posted on 2024-11-28 by guenni

[German]This is a critical issue that I have come across recently and illustrates the risk of IT shutdowns by vendors/manufacturers or countries. The Chinese manufacturer Deye, also represented in German balcony power plants and solar system installations with inverters, has … Continue reading →

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Exchange Online issues, e.g. with the Teams calendar (Nov. 25, 2024)

Posted on 2024-11-25 by guenni

[German]A quick information for all blog readers: Are you experiencing problems with Exchange Online? Microsoft is investigating reports of problems with Exchange Online in connection with the Microsoft Teams calendar. Some users are reporting a 404 error when attempting to … Continue reading →

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