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Category Archives: Office
Connection issues with Microsoft 365 applications? (Feb. 2023)
[German]Question for Microsoft 365 administrators and service providers. Has there been increased feedback in recent days that apps are losing their connection to Microsoft services? Affects for example Office, Outlook, OneDrive, so that users have to log in again every … Continue reading
Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (February 14, 2023)
[German]On February 14, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Word is closed. Below is an overview of the … Continue reading
Microsoft Security Update Summary (February 14, 2023)
[German]On February 14, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, etc. – as well as for other products – released. The security updates fix 75 vulnerabilities, of which 9 are critical, 66 are important and … Continue reading
Microsoft plans according to a report, to add ChatGPT-4 features to Office
[German]Does Microsoft plan to extend its Office applications in Microsoft 365 with functions of the "Prometheus Model" from the OpenAI product ChatGPT-4? After the ChatGPT extension of the Bing search engine, that would be Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook with … Continue reading
Microsoft 365: Bugs in Word 365 release 2301 – Write protection blocks changes and VBA AddIns
[German]A German blog reader has pointed out nasty bugs in release 2301 of Microsoft Word from Office 365 or Microsoft 365. Read-only files can only be changed after saving them under a different name. And VBA addins can no longer … Continue reading
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 365 Apps for Business does not support macro policies (GPOs)
[German]This is an unpleasant story, actually a scandal, which I'm putting up for discussion here on the blog. Anyone using Microsoft 365 Apps for Business is in for an unpleasant surprise. Microsoft has pruned the product, so this product does … Continue reading
Is Microsoft Defender killing applications like Outlook again? (Feb 3, 2023)
[German]Quick question to the round of administrators and users who use Microsoft Defender as a security solution in Windows. As of today, February 3, 2023, have there been any problems with applications such as Microsoft Outlook or do Office applications … Continue reading
Microsoft says update KB5021751 to identify outdated Office versions respects your privacy
[German]Microsoft released update KB5021751 for Microsoft Office 2007 – 2013 on January 17, 2023 to track down users who are still using these outdated versions of Office. There was some puzzlement as to what this was all about. Now Microsoft … Continue reading
Office trouble: Excel calculation issues, and Outlook starts in safe mode (January 2023)
[German]In this post I would like to put online a small collection of problems or inconsistencies around Microsoft Office. The problems have come to my attention through the readership in the last few days. Possibly they are isolated cases, but … Continue reading
Update KB5021751 (from Jan. 17, 2023) identifies outdated Office versions
[German]Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office 2007 – 2013 on January 17, 2023. The goal of this update is to track down users who are still using these Office versions. Thanks to the user for the short notice.