Category Archives: Office

Office 365: After Office updates new option 'Update license' since March 2024

Posted on 2024-04-25 by guenni

[German]After the March 2024 updates, a user contacted me because he was prompted to update his license in Microsoft Office 365. The topic has been left lying around for a while, but I'm including it here in the blog – … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office LTSC 2024: Preview available for macOS and Windows

Posted on 2024-04-20 by guenni

[German]A short addendum or information for administrators in companies who are responsible for Microsoft Office. There will be a Microsoft Office 2024 in 2024, and a preview was announced for April 2024 (see Microsoft Office Office 2024 and Microsoft Office … Continue reading →

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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

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Microsoft Office Updates (April 9, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-11 by guenni

[German]On April 9, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Below you will find an overview of … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (April 9, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-10 by guenni

[German]On April 9, 2024, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office and other products. The security updates address 147 vulnerabilities (CVEs), including three critical vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on … Continue reading →

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Microsoft fixes Outlook bug from December 2023 updates

Posted on 2024-04-06 by guenni

[German]An update for Office 365 from December 12, 2023 previously startled Outlook users with a security warning when they tried to open a calendar file (.ics). Microsoft has now fixed this issue so that the security warning from calendar files … Continue reading →

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Office Updates (April 2, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-05 by guenni

[German]On April 2, 2024 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2016 and various programs. I'll summarize some information about these updates here in the blog (thanks to the reader for the hint). Advertising

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Outlook 365: The broken profile experience …

Posted on 2024-03-31 by guenni

[German]Small blog post about Microsoft 365/Outlook, and a problem that the program suddenly wants to repair a profile. It seems to happen more frequently, as I have learned. And in some cases, the repair then fails due to insufficient free … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365/Exchange Online enforces suddenly MFA via Microsoft Authenticator app

Posted on 2024-03-28 by guenni

[German]A quick question for the administrators responsible for Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 applications. I've just received an email from Alex saying that their users have had massive problems with Exchange Online "since today" because the Microsoft 365 applications suddenly … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365 connection issues: Outlook shows red exclamation mark

Posted on 2024-03-22 by guenni

[German]This week an administrator contacted me, reporting sudden connection issues with Microsoft 365 and Outlook apps. After I've published a German blog post about that observation, other German users confirmed these connection issues. Advertising

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Issues with Microsoft Outlook (scheduling) since March 2024 patchday? – Part II

Posted on 2024-03-17 by guenni

[German]Blog reader Steffen has contacted me by email because he is seeing issues and problem reports from users of Microsoft Outlook in connection with the scheduling wizard. It affects different versions of Outlook and he is wondering whether other readers … Continue reading →

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