Category Archives: Office

Microsoft Office: Administrative Templates (ADMX/ADML) updated

Posted on 2024-09-21 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has updated its template files (Administrative Templates, ADMX/ADML files) for Microsoft Office as of September 18. The template files contain the group policies for managing Microsoft Office.

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Fix for Outlook, Word, OneNote crashes when typing

Posted on 2024-09-20 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has fixed a bug in Microsoft 365 that could cause the Outlook, Word and OneNote applications to crash under certain circumstances when typing. The fix is being rolled out with certain Microsoft 365 builds.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel and Agents

Posted on 2024-09-18 by guenni

[German]Short addendum from the other day: In addition to Office 2024 LTSC, Microsoft has also announced the launch of its "Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2". There is a product called Copilot Pages and Microsoft Excel gets support for the Python … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office 2024 LTSC for Windows and macOS released

Posted on 2024-09-17 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released Microsoft Office 2024 LTSC, which was announced some time ago, on September 16, 2024. This version of Office is now available for Windows and Apple Macs under macOS. It is an Office version that offers a subset … Continue reading →

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Windows Legacy DRM deprecated; ActiveX diasbled in Office 2024

Posted on 2024-09-12 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has once again declared some Windows and Office components as deprecated and will sooner or later switch them off or remove support for them. In addition to the DRM functionality for media content in Windows 7/8, ActiveX in Office … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office Updates (September 10, 2024)

Posted on 2024-09-12 by guenni

[German]On September 10, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Below you will find an overview of … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (September 10, 2024)

Posted on 2024-09-11 by guenni

[German]On September 10, 2024, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 79 vulnerabilities (CVEs), including seven critical vulnerabilities, four of which are classified as 0-day … Continue reading →

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Office updates from September 3, 2024

Posted on 2024-09-04 by guenni

[German]On September 3, 2024 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2016. I'll summarize some information about these updates here in the blog.

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Office 365 Version 2408: Issues with Access when accessing a SQL database

Posted on 2024-08-31 by guenni

[German]A blog reader has just contacted me because he has run into significant problems with Microsoft Access with Microsoft Office 365 version 2408 (Build 17928.20114). He often gets error 3048 from the Access frontend when trying to access it. The … Continue reading →

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Workaround for Outlook 365 crash (Aug. 2024) published by Microsoft

Posted on 2024-08-19 by guenni

[German]Users of Microsoft Outlook 365 (version 2407 build 17830.20138 and higher) occasionally report that the application crashes. This is caused by corrupted, server-based rules for the Microsoft 365 email account. Microsoft has now published a workaround to temporarily fix this … Continue reading →

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