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Category Archives: Office
Follina vulnerabilitiy (CVE-2022-30190): Status, Findings, Warnings & Attacks
[German]Since the weekend, a new Windows vulnerability CVE-2022-30190 in combination with Microsoft Office has been knows under the name Follina. In the meantime, the US CISA and also the BSI have warned about this vulnerability – while security researchers have … Continue reading
Outlook: May 2022 update (build 15225.20204) breaks HTML rendering in mails
[German]I'll just bring up a topic that has been bumming around here since Monday, May 30, 2022, due to reader requests. Microsoft Outlook users seem to have the problem that one of the latest updates from May 2022 has corrupted … Continue reading
Follina: Attack via Word documents and ms-msdt protocol (CVE-2022-30190)
[German]A new attack vector has been known since the weekend that abuses the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Utility via the ms-msdt: protocol to download and abuse malicious Word documents (or Excel spreadsheets) from the web. Microsoft has since issued a support … Continue reading
Microsoft Office is a must have …
[German]I often get told from my blog reader, that Microsoft's Office is a must have – and Office 365 subscriptions are the coolest thing since invention of "sliced bread". I just found an nugget, how innovative thas MS Office is, … Continue reading
Microsoft Access: Issues with SQL database access because of ODBC driver?
[German]Brief information for the readership and at the same time the question if someone is already affected. I received a user message that Microsoft Access suddenly had problems with SQL database access. All databases suddenly showed the value '#DELETED' in … 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 ...
Access 365: Error "The search key has not been used in any…" (April 2022)
[German]There seems to be a bug in Microsoft Access 365 (with update status 2022 in the current channel). When closing forms, the error message "The search key was not found in any…" is issued. Following a reader suggestion, I summarize … Continue reading
Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (May 10, 2022)
[German]On May 10, 2022 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. Here is an overview of the available updates.
Windows, Office: May 2022 Patchday issues and mysteries
[German]Microsoft has released various security updates for Windows, Office, Net etc. on May 10, 2022. While relatively few problems were fixed by these updates, some users seem to have problems with the update installation or afterwards. Affected is for example … Continue reading
Microsoft Security Update Summary (May 10, 2022)
[German]On May 10, 2022, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, etc. – as well as for other products – were released. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on Patchday. The … Continue reading
Microsoft Office Updates (May 3, 2022)
[German]On May 3, 2022 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft releases non-security updates for still-supported versions of Microsoft Office. This month, however, there are only updates for Microsoft Office 2016, which fixes issues in Access 2016, among others. Here is … Continue reading