Category Archives: Office

Outlook 365 damages PDF and Office files since April 2023

[German]Short addendum from this week. I received a tip that Microsoft Outlook 365 has been constantly corrupting Office files – and probably also PDF documents – since April 2023. If you don't have a backup, you may lose attachments – … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office Updates (June 13, 2023)

[German]On June 13, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. With the April 2023 patchday, support for Office 2013 ended – but vulnerabilities were still closed … Continue reading

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (June 13, 2023)

[German]On June 13, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 78 vulnerabilities, 37 are remote code execution vulnerabilities (six vulnerabilities are rated critical). Below … Continue reading

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Administrative Templates (ADMX/ADML) for Microsoft 365 (June 2023)

[German]Microsoft has released updated administrative template files (ADMX/ADML) for Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise/Office LTSC 2021/Office 2019/Office 2016 and Office Customization Tool for Office 2016 as of June 12, 2023.

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Windows Temp folder flooded with "computer name-yyyMMdd-hhmm.log" files

[German]Another problem in Windows: A German blog reader pointed out to me that besides the Aria-debug-xxx.log files I recently discussed, on some machines the TEMP folder is flooded with other log files. These are named according to the scheme computer-name-yyyMMdd-hhmm.log. … Continue reading

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

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Microsoft Office Updates (June 6, 2023)

[German]As of June 6, 2023 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft has released non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported. There were three updates for Office 2016, Office 2013 is out of support in April 2023, … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office 2304 (Build 16327.20308): Outlook displays self-signed e-mails as text

[German]Are self-signed e-mails received in Microsoft Outlook no longer displayed as HTML documents, but only as text? The cause is probably Microsoft Office version 2304 (build 16327.20308), which has this error.

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Microsoft is installing Outlook-Preview without permission

[German]A somewhat unpleasant observation that some users and administrators are currently reporting. On some systems with Microsoft 365, the preview of the Outlook app is suddenly installed by Microsoft. I have created a short summary of the situation, which I … Continue reading

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Microsoft patches Outlook vulnerability CVE-2023-29325

[German]Microsoft has again delivered a fix for an Outlook vulnerability with Windows updates as of May 9, 2023. This update is intended to close a vulnerability in Outlook that was already incompletely patched in March 2023. Russian hackers have exploited … Continue reading

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Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (May 9, 2023)

[German]On May 9, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. With the April 2023 patchday, support for Office 2013 ended – but vulnerabilities were still closed … Continue reading

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