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Microsoft fixes New Year’s bugs in email software
The problem got the name Y2K22 in the network. Photo: Peter Kneffel / dpa
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This has resulted in an email jam. The 2016 and 2019 Exchange versions are affected. But there are solutions to the problem.
After e-mails got stuck in some versions of Microsoft’s Exchange software at the beginning of the year, the group published a solution to the problem.
The cause of the problem was an incorrect date format in a file for the malware scanner integrated in Exchange. As a result, the antivirus software crashed and made sure that e-mails were not forwarded. The 2016 and 2019 Exchange versions were affected.
The operators of these Exchange servers either have to run an automated script or perform several steps manually, as Microsoft explained over the weekend. The group urged patience: it could take a while for the email congestion to resolve.
The problem was given the name Y2K22 on the Internet – an allusion to the Y2K problem from 2000. At that time, it was feared that the year could cause computers to fail on a broad front. However, there were hardly any difficulties on January 1, 2000, partly due to preparatory work by the industry.