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Update KB5002623 with fixes for Office 2016 crashes available via WSUS (April 15, 2025)

[German]Update KB5002700 for Microsoft Office 2016 (MSI installation) released on April 8, 2025, crashes in Excel, Outlook and Word 2016. On April 10, 2025 Microsoft has released an out-of-band update KB5002623 to fix that crashed. On April 15, 2025, Microsoft … Continue reading

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Office 2016 update KB5002623 fixes crashes in Excel, Outlook, Word (April 10, 2025)

[German]With the Office 2016 update KB5002700 from April 8, 2025, users are facing problems with Office 2016 applications. The update caused crashes in Excel, Outlook and Word. On April 10, 2025, Microsoft released the KB5002623 update for Office 2016, which … Continue reading

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Tool to fix broken 'umlauts' in Outlook signatures

[German]Some time ago, I addressed the problem that administrators of Microsoft 365 users are experiencing here on the blog. Sporadically, users' signatures in Outlook 365 break and umlauts are no longer displayed if these signatures are stored in the cloud. … Continue reading

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Windows 11 24H2: Workarounds for "File with password protection cannot be opened multiple times in Excel 2016"

[GER1, GER2]Since the end of 2024, users of Microsoft Excel 2016 have been running into a strange issue. Excel files that have been password protected cannot be opened multiple times. It seems to be a problem caused by Windows 11 … Continue reading

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Windows 11 24H2: Fix for time zone change released

[German]Back in November 2024, Microsoft had to admit that there was a bug in Windows 11 24H2. On the settings page, standard users cannot make any changes to the time zone in the settings page. This option is only offered … Continue reading

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Windows Server 2022: Out-of-band Update KB5052819 fixes NUMA nodes start issues

[German]Microsoft has released an unscheduled update KB5052819 for Windows Server 2022 on January 18, 2025, which upgrades the OS build to version 20348.3095. This out-of-band update is intended to fix operating system startup problems that can occur on systems with … Continue reading

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Update KB4484305: Fix for Excel 2016 add-in loading bug

[German]Another addendum from November 2024: On November 19, 2024, Microsoft fixed a problem caused by the security update KB5002653 from November 12, 2024 in Microsoft Excel 2016 (MSI version). Add-ins could no longer be loaded there.

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New Outlook app: No GMail calendar entries possible – workaround and fix

[German]A blog reader pointed me to an issue with the new Outlook app. The app could no longer create new calendar entries for his Gmail account. However, there is a workaround, and a new version with bug fixes should be … Continue reading

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Word bug fix: Documents with # or capital letters in the name were deleted

[German]Small addendum from October 8, 2024 – on this date, Microsoft fixed a bug in certain versions of Word that caused documents with a # in the file name or capital letters in the file name extension to be deleted … Continue reading

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Windows 10 Preview Update KB5043131 fixes repeated login prompts

[German]A small addendum regarding "login problems with Microsoft's cloud". Users have been annoyed by repetitive SSO logins for months. It was a change Microsoft has made for the European Digital Markets Act that resulted in this annoying behavior. Microsoft has … Continue reading

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