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You can disable this behavior from Edge by going to Settings > Default browser > Let Internet Explorer open sites in Microsoft Edge and setting it to “Never”. No need for disabling all add-ons or modifying the registry. You might need to restart IE after changing the setting for it to take effect.
If it’s still unclear here’s a link that has step-by-step instructions with screenshots: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/163941-turn-off-let-internet-explorer-open-sites-microsoft-edge.html
Microsoft said that Outlook is suffering “email visibility issues”, with widespread reports of text disappearing after being entered into a new message, and of existing messages having no body text at all.
IT administrators said they were rolling back a recent Office update that appears to be the root cause; both desktop and 365 users are reporting issues.
“We’re investigating an issue with email message visibility in Outlook. Outlook on the web appears to be unaffected,” Microsoft said in a brief status advisory.
Users worldwide reported a variety of text input and visibility problems. There were confirmed reports of the issues impacting Australian and New Zealand users.
“If you hit ‘new message’ and type in the body no text appears. But If you send it the text shows up for the recipient,” one user wrote.
“We have several users that cannot see the text in emails in their mailboxes,” Seth Kamins tweeted.
“If you reply you still cannot see this unless you backspace. Very odd.
“OWA unaffected as we have Exchange on Prem. Same thing happens when turning off Cache.”
One user screenshotted the experience, with the body of a new email disappearing every time a new line was entered.
Administrators reported that disabling autoupdate and rolling back to a previous version worked; Outlook Web Access (OWA) and access via phone-based client also appeared to be unaffected.
“Users with access to alternate protocols like Outlook on the web or Outlook mobile can use those as a potential workaround in the interim,” Microsoft later officially advised.
However, not even some of these workarounds were foolproof.
Update, 9.18am: Microsoft advised it had “identified the root cause and are applying a fix, which will reach affected users over the next three to four hours.
“Users will need to restart the Outlook client to apply the fix after it’s received. We expect to restore service to affected users by May 12, 2021, at 3:00 AM UTC [1pm AEST].”
Imagine a computer network is like an enemy fortress. If you want to capture it, you do not just lob a grenade over the wall and hope the soldiers are all killed. You start by infiltrating your best guy.
You smuggle him past the defenses and leave him to sneak around inside for a while. Get the lay of the land. Draw maps for when your main forces arrive. Find out where all the good stuff is hidden. See if there are any traps to avoid.
In our case, for traps substitute ‘backups.’ Backups are kryptonite to ransomware. There is no point in locking a bunch of data if your intended victim has a clean copy. They would just laugh in your face. That is a big problem because some of these groups are in the game for prestige as much as they are for cash.
So, if they find a backup—which are usually only connected briefly to capture a snapshot of any recent changes and then get taken off-line or even off-site for safekeeping—they immediately deploy a special kind of program. A particularly sneaky kind.
We call it a trident because it does three things all at once. One, it destroys all the data that has already been backed up. It is either wiped clean or replaced with porn or taunting messages, or things like that. Two, it prevents any new backups getting saved. And three, it sends spoof signals to the organization’s management system saying that everything is working OK. That way it avoids alerting anyone to what is happening and adds to the blow when the main systems lock up and the ransom demand is posted.
If you do not protect your data and are attacked by ransomware – you will be shut down!
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You may have noticed you’re no longer getting delivery or read receipts. this feature has been discontinued from Microsoft:
Delivery reports in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 allowed users and administrators to discover and view delivery information about mail messages. Delivery reports for users have been discontinued and there is currently no direct replacement. Delivery reports for administrators have been replaced by the Message Trace feature.
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