Category Archives: Office

New Outlook for Windows 11: Adding of business accounts denied due to missing licensing

[German]There is a strange story that users of the new Outlook client under Windows 11 have already encountered. The new Outlook client refuses to add additional mailboxes if you do not have a "corresponding license" (e.g. Exchange Online Plan 1). … Continue reading

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Denial of Service vulnerability CVE-2022-44684 in Windows Local Session Manager (LSM)

[German]A brief security information. Shortly before Christmas, a warning popped up about a Denial of Service vulnerability in the Windows Local Session Manager (LSM). However, this DoS vulnerability with the CVE identifier CVE-2022-44684 is quite "strange". The identifier indicates that … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office updates (December 12, 2023)

[German]On December 12, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016 and other products. Below you will find an overview of the available updates. Advertising

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (December 12, 2023)

[German]On December 12, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – and for other products. The security updates eliminate 33 vulnerabilities (CVEs), four of which are critical vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these … Continue reading

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Massive spam wave from outlook.com to office.com accounts

[German]A German blog reader contacted me a few hours ago because he noticed an extreme amount of spam from certain Microsoft outlook.com email accounts to his Microsoft Office office.com email account. After publishing the German edition of this blog post, … Continue reading

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Outlook fails when sending mail with non-delivery report (Error 0x80040305)

[German]Microsoft has confirmed a problem in Outlook which leads to the mail dispatch being canceled. This may be due to the fact that the user has created a large number of folders in the mailbox. In the event of an … Continue reading

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Outlook 2019/2021: Microsoft shares workaround for "Send from" crash

[German]Since a few days now (November 21, 2023), users of Outlook 2019 and 2021 have been complaining that they can no longer send emails via Outlook. Outlook 2019 crashes as soon as "Send from" is selected in the mail client … Continue reading

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Outlook 2019: Crash when clicking "Send to"; and Outlook 365 deletes rules

[German]I'd like to summarize two topics related to Outlook that readers pointed out to me yesterday. It seems that a bug has crept into Outlook 2019 that causes the program to crash when "Send from" is selected. And another reader … Continue reading

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Intel Arc and Iris Xe graphics driver 31.0.101.4972 fixes Office problems (Nov. 2023)

[German]Another small addendum from this week, which I'll pull out separately. Intel has released an update of its Intel Arc and Iris Xe graphics drivers to version 31.0.101.4972. This update is supposed to fix a number of problems (e.g. with … Continue reading

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Office 365: Mail attachments from Outlook cannot be opened in Word/Excel (Nov. 2023)

[German]A quick question for administrators in the readership who use Microsoft Office 365. A reader has contacted us because problems are occurring in his environment when opening mail attachments from Outlook. The attachments cannot be opened in Word or Excel. … Continue reading

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