Category Archives: Office

Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (July 8, 2025)

[German]On July 8, 2025 (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. This month, serious vulnerabilities in Office were … Continue reading

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (July 8, 2025)

[German]Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office and other products on July 8, 2025. The security updates fixes 128 vulnerabilities (CVEs), one were classified as 0-day.  The following is a compact overview of the updates released on … Continue reading

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Microsoft OneNote for Windows: Export to Word 97 – 2003 ends

[German]Does anyone still use Microsoft OneNote for Windows and export notebook content to the old Word 97-2023 format? This feature will be discontinued at the end of July 2025.

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Microsoft Office: Administrative Templates (ADMX/ADML) Version 5506.1000

Microsoft has already updated its template files (Administrative Templates, ADMX/ADML files) for Microsoft Office 2016 and higher to version 5506.1000 on May 29, 2025. The template files contain the group policies for managing Microsoft Office.

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Outlook Classic issue: Shows suddenly an "Add a service" popup and ask for credentials (June 2025)

[German]A blog reader told me about a strange problem in Microsoft Outlook Classic. Since June 13, 2025, Outlook shows a few minutes after start a dialog box "Add service" and disables the internet connection. It affects only single clients in … Continue reading

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

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Microsoft Office 2024 Microsoft account licensing bug fixed

[English]A small addendum from this week with good news for users and administrators of Microsoft Office 2024. The manufacturer has fixed a licensing bug that occurred during license management via Microsoft accounts.

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Microsoft 365 blocks old authentication protocols from mid-June 2025

[German]I'll pull out a topic in a post that I came across recently. Microsoft is trying to increase the security of MS 365. To this end, "Secure by default settings" for outdated authentication protocols will be introduced in Microsoft 365 … Continue reading

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Outlook crashes caused by June 2025 Updates confirmed with workaround

[German]The June 2025 security updates for Microsoft Office cause Microsoft Outlook Classic to crash in some versions. At the weekend, Microsoft confirmed these Outlook crashes and published a workaround. I'll put this information in a separate article.

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Digital sovereignty: EU cloud; Microsoft exit in Danish digital ministry; true cost of Windows 11

[German]The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is saying goodbye to Microsoft and will move (probably to Linux and) to LibreOffice in near future – thanks to Trump. And the LibreOffice makers have set their sights on Windows 11 in order … Continue reading

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Office-Updates June 2025: Outlook crashes, documents can't be opened

[German]The June 2025 security updates for Microsoft Office fixes critical vulnerabilities, but appear to cause serious problems for some users in corporate environments. Document files can no longer be opened in the Office applications. There are also reports of crashes … Continue reading

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