Category Archives: Office

Fix for Error 3340 in Access 2016 (Update KB4484198)

[German]On November 18, 2019, Microsoft released update KB4484198 to fix error 3340 with database accesses in Access 2016. Further fixes for other Access versions will follow soon. Addendum: Also Click to Run Access 2016 has been fixed via an update.

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Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (November 12, 2019)

[German]As of November 12, 2019 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft has released several security updates for supported Microsoft Office versions and other products.

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Office November 2019 Updates are causing Access Error 3340

[German]Microsoft Office security updates released on Patchday (November 12, 2019) cause Access to fail to access databases. An error 3340 'Query is corrupted' will be dropped. Addendum: I reported the issue to Microsoft, a fix is in preparation – see … Continue reading

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (November 12, 2019)

[German]As of November 12, 2019, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, and more. Here is a compact overview of these updates.

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Microsoft deletes old KB articles

[German]Occasionally Microsoft cleans up its web site and deletes older support articles. In recent weeks, a number of KB articles have fallen victim to this cleaning action.

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

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OneNote: Microsoft reveals future plans

[German]Microsoft has announced its future plans for the development of the office application OneNote at a session during the Ignite 2019 conference. There are a few surprises, we learned this week.

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Microsoft Office Patchday (November 5, 2019)

[German]On November 5, 2019 (the first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday), Microsoft released a series of non-security updates for various versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported.

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Support until 2025 for OneNote 2016

[German]Microsoft has provided yesterday a surprise at the Ignite 2019 conference. The Windows application OneNote 2016 will get support until 2025 (same as Office 2019).

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Office 365: Outlook search in Exchange inbox broken

Since a few days users are facing issues with Outlook search in connection with an Exchange mailbox at Office365.com. This is a known issue for which Microsoft wants to roll out a fix.

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Outlook Error: Operation has been cancelled due to restrictions

[German]A blog reader has informed me about a pretty crude behavior in Microsoft Outlook. A disabled Internet Explorer results in an Outlook error "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system … Continue reading

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