Category Archives: Office

Windows/Office (WSUS) Update issues & experiences

[German]Currently there are synchronization problems with WSUS. Furthermore, administrators run into issues during the update installation for Office and Windows, e.g. the error 0x8000ffff is thrown. Here again an overview or some experiences of a blog reader.

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Fix for Office 2016 updates related WSUS sync issues?

[German]On September 8, 2018, Microsoft has re-released a new batch of updates for Microsoft Office 2016 for WSUS. This may fix synchronization issues with WSUS that have existed since September 4, 2018 (Office Patchday).

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Office 2016 September 4, 2018 updates breaks WSUS sync

[German]Just a brief short note for administrators in WSUS environments observing synchronization failures since a few days. It's not your WSUS, it's probably caused by broken Office 2016 updates.

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Microsoft Office-Updates (September 4, 2018)

[German]Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 Office 2016 on September 4, 2018. All updates are for the installable MSI version of Office (the click-to-run packages obtain updates through other channels). These non-security updates are documented on this … Continue reading

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Bug in Outlook 365: Only one version can run at a time

[German]Users of Microsoft Outlook 365 may have been running into an issue since mid-July 2018 with version 1806 Build 10228.20080. When clicking on the Outlook icon of the taskbar error message is displayed, that only one version of the program … Continue reading

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

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Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (August 14, 2018)

[German]On August 14, 2018 (second Tuesday of the month, patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft has released several security-related updates for still supported Microsoft Office versions and products such as Sharepoint.

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Microsoft Security Update Summary August 14, 2018

[German]On August Patchday (August 14, 2018) Microsoft has again released numerous security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, Visual Study etc..

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Microsoft Office Patchday (August 7, 2018)

[German]On the first Tuesday of each month (Office Patchday) on August 7, 2018, Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft 2013 and Office 2016.

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Looking back at Microsoft’s July 2018-Patches

[German]July 2018 represents another low with regard to issues caused from Microsoft's updates. Since the month is almost over, here is a look at security advisories and problematic updates, as well as some basic thoughts..

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Install Office Click-n-Run and MSI version on same machine

[German]Can we run Microsoft Office as a click-to-run installation parallel to an MSI installation? Microsoft says no to this. But it seems that there is still a trick that works and bot packages may be installed in parallel.

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