Category Archives: Office

MS365 apps prompt for data backup in OneDrive; two GPOs for OneDrive are removed

Posted on 2025-04-24 by guenni

[German]I'll pull out two topics separately that became known about Microsoft OneDrive a few days ago. Microsoft is rolling out an update that causes the Office applications from Microsoft 365 to prompt users to back up files to OneDrive (known … Continue reading →

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Office 365: Microsoft will deactivate ActiveX by default

Posted on 2025-04-22 by guenni

[German]A small addendum from the last few weeks. On April 11, 2025, Microsoft announced that support for ActiveX components would be deactivated by default in Microsoft 365 (i.e. Office 365). Advertising

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Outlook 365: Microsoft confirms CPU spikes while typing

Posted on 2025-04-17 by guenni

[German]Users of Microsoft Outlook Classic have been plagued for months by CPU load spikes when typing texts. Microsoft has now acknowledged this problem with Office 365 (from version 2406, build 17726.20126). Advertising

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Update KB5002623 with fixes for Office 2016 crashes available via WSUS (April 15, 2025)

Posted on 2025-04-16 by guenni

[German]Update KB5002700 for Microsoft Office 2016 (MSI installation) released on April 8, 2025, crashes in Excel, Outlook and Word 2016. On April 10, 2025 Microsoft has released an out-of-band update KB5002623 to fix that crashed. On April 15, 2025, Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Office 2016 update KB5002623 fixes crashes in Excel, Outlook, Word (April 10, 2025)

Posted on 2025-04-10 by guenni

[German]With the Office 2016 update KB5002700 from April 8, 2025, users are facing problems with Office 2016 applications. The update caused crashes in Excel, Outlook and Word. On April 10, 2025, Microsoft released the KB5002623 update for Office 2016, which … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365 Family subscription reported as "cancelled" (April 10, 2025)

Posted on 2025-04-10 by guenni

[German]If your Microsoft 365 Family subscription is currently "jerking", it could be Microsoft again. At the very least, Microsoft has stated that it is aware of a problem with "Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions". Specifically, there are more and more reports … Continue reading →

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Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (April 8, 2025)

Posted on 2025-04-10 by guenni

[German]On April 8, 2020 (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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Word/Excel 2016 crashing after April 2025 update KB5002700

Posted on 2025-04-09 by guenni

[German]Die Sicherheitsupdates vom 8. April 2025 für Microsoft Office scheinen einige Kollateralschäden zu verursachen. Neben dem Outlook 2016-Kalender-Problem scheint das Microsoft das Office-Update KB5002700 auch Word 2016 sowie Excel 2016 zum Absturz zu bringen. Advertising

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Outlook 2016: Calendar access blocked after April 2025 update KB5002700

Posted on 2025-04-09 by guenni

[German]On April 8, 2025, Microsoft released the Office update KB5002700 to close a number of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office 2016. After installing this update, access to the calendar is no longer possible. However, there is a quick workaround. Advertising

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (April 8, 2025)

Posted on 2025-04-09 by guenni

[Germany]Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office and other products on April 8, 2025. The security updates eliminate 121 vulnerabilities (CVEs), one of which was classified as 0-day. This vulnerability has already been attacked. Below is a … Continue reading →

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