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Microsoft 365: Annoying advertising for Python in Excel —
[German]Microsoft just can't help itself and is forcing its business customers in Microsoft 365 to advertise Python in Excel. An administrator among the blog readers pointed this out to me (thanks for that).
Microsoft 365: Outlook for Mac loses access to Exchange On-Premises from October
[German]Brief information or reminder for administrators whose users are using macOS and rely on Microsoft 365 applications. Legacy support for Outlook on the Mac will expire in October 2025. This has implications if Outlook is to access mailboxes from on-premises … Continue reading
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Microsoft Office 365: Ricoh Scan error "Cannot connect to SMTP server"
[German]It currently that users of multifunction printers with a scan function that use a connection to a Microsoft Office 365 SMTP server are running into issues with certain devices. Users of Ricoh devices are receiving "Cannot connect to SMTP server" … Continue reading
Outlook: Temporary fix for crashes when writing mails
[German]Classic Outlook version 2412 (build 18324.20168) can crash when creating a new email or forwarding emails. Microsoft introduced a temporary fix on January 17, 2025 and plans to solve the problem with an update at the end of the month.
Microsoft Office 2019 und Microsoft Teams Problem (Jan. 2025)
[German]Question to the readership whether anyone has observed problems with Microsoft Office 2019 in conjunction with Microsoft Teams 2.0 after the January 2025 patch day (14.1.2025). Here is an observation from a blog reader.
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...
Microsoft fixes crashing Microsoft 365 (Office) apps (16. Jan. 2025)
[German]Microsoft has released a new build of Microsoft 365 that should fix the crashes of Microsoft Outlook and other Office 365 applications on Windows Server 2016 that I reported in January 2025.
Microsoft's Marketing tales: Windows 11 is free for a short time; support for Microsoft 365 app ends in October 2025 for Windows 10
[German]Microsoft reached last week into its marketing bag of tricks again and put some questionable things on the table to promote Windows 11. It says that "Windows 11 is free for a short time". And another joke is unpacked: Microsoft … Continue reading
Microsoft 365 Personal and Family shipped with Copilot, but hefty price hike
[German]Private users of Microsoft's subscription products can look forward to a hefty price increase for the Microsoft 365 Personal and Family products. This "no-alternative" software is now being enhanced by Microsoft with Copilot, and that costs money. The subscriptions for … Continue reading
Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (January 2025)
[German]On January 14, 2025 (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. Non-security updates were released on January 7, … Continue reading
Microsoft Outlook 365 or other MS 365 apps are dropping suddenly errors
[German]German blog reader Robert contacted me recently by emailed to report that he had run into problems with Outlook and other apps under Microsoft 365 on Windows Server 2016 (and 2019) Terminal Server. Microsoft Outlook, Excel crashes in a certain … Continue reading