Category Archives: Office

MS Office 365 ProPlus Update config for remote work

Posted on 2020-03-26 by guenni

[German]How can enterprise administrators ensure that updates for Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus are managable, in times when the are forced to work remotely in home office?

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Temporary restrictions for MS Teams, OneNote, Office365

Posted on 2020-03-24 by guenni

[German]After the increase in home office sessions as part of the corona crisis led to functional issues in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft is reducing now the functionality of its Microsoft 365 online services.

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Microsoft throttles non-essential Office 365 features

Posted on 2020-03-18 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has announced a reduction in non-essential Office 365 features in response to increased online usage of its cloud solutions. This is to ensure the availability of Office 365.

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Exchange Online issues continues (March 12, 2020)

Posted on 2020-03-12 by guenni

[German]Since 11 March 2020, there is a service outage at Exchange Online. Users could no longer log on with the Outlook desktop client. The malfunction seems to continue.

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Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (March 10, 2020)

Posted on 2020-03-12 by guenni

[German]As of March 10, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft has released several security relevant updates for still supported Microsoft Office versions and other products.

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

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server (March 10 2020)

Posted on 2020-03-11 by guenni

[German]On March 10, 2020, Microsoft released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 (ESU) and other updates for Windows 8.1 and the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (March 10, 2020)

Posted on 2020-03-10 by guenni

[German]On March 10, 2020, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, Internet Explorer, etc. Here is a compact overview of these updates.

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Microsoft Office, the Cloud, Licenses and Security

Posted on 2020-03-08 by guenni

[German]Companies using Office 365.com as a cloud solution may run into security issues if they have booked the 'wrong' license plan. This is because Microsoft keeps log files for a different period of time (90 days to 1 year) depending … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office Patchday (March 2, 2020)

Posted on 2020-03-03 by guenni

[German]On March 2, 2020 (first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday), Microsoft released several non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office (this time only for Office 2016 and Skype for Business 2013) that are still supported.

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Exchange Server 2013: Issue with Security Update KB4536988

Posted on 2020-03-02 by guenni

[German]When you install security update KB4536988 (Feb. 2020) to close the vulnerability CVE-2020-0688, Exchange Server 2013 may experience an issue that was described a year ago in Exchange Server 2016.

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