Category Archives: Office

Office 365: Teams connectors can now be used until December 2025

[German]Brief information update for Microsoft Office 365 administrators who use the connector for Microsoft Teams. This was actually due to expire on August 15, 2024 and then stop working on October 1, 2024. After massive protests from customers, Microsoft wants … Continue reading

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Administrative template files (Microsoft 365, Office) July 2024

[German]Microsoft has published updated administrative template files for Microsoft 365 including various Microsoft Office versions as of July 16, 2024. These can be used in corporate environments to manage functionality and settings via group policies.

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New Outlook for Windows generally available from August 1, 2024

[German]The preview phase of the new Microsoft Outlook for Windows will end on August 1, 2024. The client in question will then be generally available for commercial accounts. However, users can still use the classic Outlook client, as the new … Continue reading

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Outlook 365 reports conflict error when updating or canceling meetings

[German]Since the beginning of June 2024, Microsoft and Outlook users have been struggling with a nasty bug that makes managing meetings a pain. Whenever a user wants to update or cancel a meeting, they are met with a conflict error. … Continue reading

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Windows 11 update KB5040442 causes issues with Outlook 2021

[German]Quick question for the readership: Are there any problems with Windows 11 23H2 if the preview update KB5039302 from June 2024 or the security update KB5040442 from July 2024 is installed? I have received reports that links can no longer … Continue reading

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

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Microsoft Office Updates (July 9, 2024)

[German]On July 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 (July 9, 2024)

[German]On July 9, 2024, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 138 vulnerabilities (CVEs), including five critical vulnerabilities (two are already being exploited). Below is … Continue reading

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Outlook: Old clients will be deactivated in mid-July 2024

[German]I'm posting some information here on the blog that I came across a few days ago. From mid-July 2024, older Outlook clients and web browsers will refuse to work with Microsoft email accounts. Users will then have to update their … Continue reading

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Microsoft Teams: Teams 2.0 client distribution stopped; bug in iOS app causes issues with out-of-office notice

[German]On July 1, 2024, the Teams 2.0 client was to be deployed across the board on Windows. Microsoft has stopped the automatic distribution because the automatic MS Teams 1.0 uninstallation leads to Outlook problems. And Microsoft has long had a … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office Click2Run update broken? Error code 30088-27

[German]There seem to be problems with one of the latest Office updates, which affects the Click2Run versions of Microsoft Office 2016, 2019, 2021 and Office 365 version 2406. The attempt to perform an update search and update to the next … Continue reading

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