Category Archives: Office

An undocumented Office 365 REST api for Outlook activities

[German]It's an interesting discovery for administrators. Microsoft Office 365 has an undocumented API that allows administrators to read the activities of Outlook email accounts.

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Microsoft intends to push Office 365, but that thing is slow

[German]Microsoft intends to tighten the 'thumbscrews' at Office and force enterprises customers to subscribe to Office 365. On the other hand, a large number of companies using Office 365 complain about performance issues.

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Outlook 2016: Search doesn’t returns results

[German]Microsoft Outlook users may run into the issue, that a search in all  mailboxes or address books no longer return results. This is probably due to a recently installed update. A search in contacts that doesn't return results could be … Continue reading

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Office 365: Zero-Font bypassing weakens email security

[German]Cyber criminals are currently using a well-known zero-font bypassing technology to trick Office 365's Microsoft security filters on emails and smuggle spam onto systems.

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Hotfix for Excel 2013/2016 Chart dll crash bug

[German]Users of Excel 2013 and Excel 2016 have been suffering since April 2018 patchday from a bug that crashed the program when accessing charts . But there are hotfixes to fix the problem.

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

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WSUS synchronized 45 updates (06/16/2018)

A brief information for administrators. Blog reader Markus K. informed me that 45 updates for Windows, Office etc. were re-synchronized in WSUS on Saturday, June 16, 2018..

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PSA: EOL for TLS 1.0/1.1 support in Intune and Office 365

[German]Short information for administrators managing Windows systems with Microsoft's Intune. Microsoft is phasing out support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 (for security reasons) in the fall of 2018. Home and end users are not affected by this change, and … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office Patchday (June 5, 2018)

[German]On the first Tuesday of each month (Office Patchday) on June 5, 2018, Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 2016.

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Necurs distributes Flawed Ammyy RAT via Excel IQY files

A few days ago a new attack method of the Botnetes Necurs became known. This distributed a remote access Trojan (name: Flawed Ammy) using Excel Web Query and Internet Inquiry files.

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Flash and Silverlight get blocked in Office 365 documents

Microsoft announced plans to restrict the use of Flash, Shockwave, and Silverlight controls in Office 365. This policy changed for security reason.

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