40.000 Companies in Germany affected The BSI (German Federal Authority for Informationsecurity) warns with the second highest level “orange” (= the IT threat situation is mission critical. massive disruption of regular operations) in the public media1. Around 40,000 companies in Germany alone are affected by several critical vulnerabilities because security updates have not yet been installed2. In fact, Heise speaks of playing Russian roulette3. It’s not without reason that I have been warning for several years now about interlocking internal AD and internet functions like Microsoft does deliberatly. Read more

One more SME customer (approx. 250 users spread over several nationwide locations) is migrating away from Exchange to free and Open Source solution. With the ready-to-use installation of a new Linux mail server I have provided my very modest contribution. The rest of the user and the data transfer will be done by the customer’s own IT department. Users can continue to work in their familiar Outlook and mobile client environment when the new EAS accounts are rolled out “side-by-side” to the existing onces. Read more

Today Mike Kuketz published a great article in his blog on Digitization in schools and on educational policy, unfortunately in German only, but worth to read: Bildungswesen: Entlarvung der häufigsten Microsoft-Mythen Have fun reading and a good start to the week! Here are some Power-Quotes: Therefore, only product training courses take place. The expiration date for such trained knowledge will be exceeded by the next update of the user interface and subsequently has to be re-learned. Read more

I really just wanted to show you this Fnord, which is a very Microsoft-like thing: Well however, you might ask why I am tackling with Outlook 2019, let me please explain. A company with 40 mailboxes has decided to abandon its Exchange server. The following sentence is for all accountants and auditors: We are talking about cost-savings of 15-25% per year! Now everything runs with common internet standards on a Debian 10 with all the comfort and convenience as before: Starting with EAS-ActiveSync for Outlook (sigh if it has to be), a great webmailer, public folders, calendars, contacts and even resources. Read more