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Category Archives: Office
Office: Instabilities/crashes due to C2R and MSI parallel installation?
[German]A short note for administrators who try to run Office modules in their environment both as Click-n-Run and MSI installations. This can lead to unstable Office installations, as I just learned from feedback from blog readers.
Virtualization: New Office versions as performance killers
[German]What about the performance of new versions of Microsoft Office? Every new version has a bigger foot print and feels more sluggish. I have just seen an interesting evaluation of VMware for Office in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments that … Continue reading
New Office and new Exchange Server in 2021
[German]During Ignite 2020, which has just been launched as a virtual conference, Microsoft has announced a new Office for Windows and Mac for 2021, as well as giving initial indications of a new Exchange Server.
Microsoft is working to bring back the Family calendar in Outlook app
[German]Users of the Microsoft Outlook desktop app complain that the family calendar function has suddenly disappeared. The reason: Someone has crashed at Microsoft and did not implement the function. Microsoft has now confirmed that they are working on a solution … Continue reading
Microsoft 365: Multi-factor authentication bypassed
[German]That does not sound very good. Newly discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft 365 make it possible to bypass multi-factor authentication. Security researchers from Proofpoint have just released this information.
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
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Office 2016: Documents cannot be stored on network shares
[German]A German blog reader contacted me for an observation. He has been getting for weeks more and more messages from users in his enterprise network with Windows Server 2012, that Office documents sporadically cannot be stored on network shares. On … Continue reading
Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (September 8, 2020)
[German]On September 8, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft released various security-related updates for still supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. Here is an overview of the available updates.
Microsoft Security Update Summary (September 8, 2020)
[German]On September 8, 2020, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, Internet Explorer, etc. Here you will find a compact overview of these updates.
Security update KB4484497 for Outlook blocks macros
[German]Microsoft released security update KB4484497 for Outlook 2010 on August 11, 2020. However, I got reports, that this security update blocks the execution of macros.
Outlook App: Family Calendar missing
[German]Users of the Microsoft Outlook desktop app complain that the family calendar has suddenly disappeared. The cause is currently not quite clear.