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Office File Validation for Office 2003 and Office 2007

Posted over 2 years ago

by RossCC
- 3 Comments
Office File Validation, a Microsoft Office 2010 security feature, is now available for both Office 2003 and Office 2007. We strongly recommend that Office File Validation be applied to all computers that use Office 2003 and Office 2007. However, Office...
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Deploying the Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT) by using ConfigMgr and SCCM

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 3 Comments
Looking for more information about how to deploy OEAT using SCCM? Rob York, a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft Premier Field Engineering, UK, has written a blog post that provides step-by-step procedures for creating the settings.xml file to be distributed...
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Issues with the recent update for Outlook 2007

Posted over 3 years ago

by Catherine Watson
- 3 Comments
On Tuesday, December 14, we released an update (KB2412171) for Microsoft Outlook 2007. We have discovered several issues with the update and want to inform you about problems you might encounter and what corrective steps we recommend. As of December 16...
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April 2012 Cumulative Update for Office is now available

Posted over 1 year ago

by DarrylMo
- 3 Comments
You can now get the April 2012 Cumulative Updates (CUs) packages for Office 2010 and the 2007 Office system . The CUs also include Office servers and SharePoint products. In these overall knowledge base articles, you’ll find links for the individual update...
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SP1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 officially released

Posted over 2 years ago

by DarrylMo
- 3 Comments
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is officially released. SP1 contains new fixes for areas of each product as well as all Cumulative Updates and Public Updates that have already shipped . The fixes are contained in a downloadable...
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Windows, iPad and Android - Managing and Using Your Office Assets in a Tablet World (Part 6) – Building Solutions for Remote Access to Windows Environments

Posted over 2 years ago

by Garage Series for IT Pros
- 3 Comments
Welcome to the sixth and final part in the series about managing your Office assets in a world of tablet computing. In part one I mainly introduced the primary ways to consume Office with rich clients, remote rich clients, Office for Mac, Web Apps and...
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Office 2013 Preview App-V packages available (App-V 5.0 Beta)

Posted 9 months ago

by PattyN_
- 3 Comments
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) makes applications available to users' computers without requiring users to install the applications directly on their computers. A process known as sequencing the application is used to enable applications...
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Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 2 – Preparing the Sequencing Workstation

Posted over 2 years ago

by Alistair S
- 3 Comments
Continuing on from Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 1 , Matt and Jason from 43Tc to share their real world experiences with Office 2010 and App-V and provide guidance on sequencing Office for App-V. In part 2 we look at preparing the sequencing...
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TechEd Atlanta : Day 1

Posted over 2 years ago

by Karina Meik
- 3 Comments
At 8:55am (EST) the final launch of the Endeavor lifted off, and at the Georgia World Congress Center, TechEd North America got ready with the 2011 Keynote Address.. Having missed out on seeing the first round of the Western Conference Finals (Canucks...
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Understanding potentially impactful changes in the Office 2010 object model

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 3 Comments
Brought to you by our compatibility expert Curtis Sawin One of the challenges of migrating to Office 2010 is assessing the impact of object model changes in Office applications. IT Pros and developers fear that macros built using a previous version...
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Office Compatibility Tools Update 1 Available for Download

Posted over 2 years ago

by Brian Shiers
- 2 Comments
The Office Compatibility Tools Update 1 delivers important fixes to the Office Compatibility tools improving reliability and performance. The update addresses the existing Office Compatibility tools including: Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM)...
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Having problems uninstalling Office 2010, 2007, or 2003 from the Control Panel? Use the Fix it Tool

Posted over 2 years ago

by DarrylMo
- 2 Comments
To ensure that your Office 2010 installation works smoothly and efficiently, we recommend that before installing Office 2010, you uninstall any earlier versions of Office that may still reside on your computer. If you find that uninstalling these versions...
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Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V - Part 1: Considerations

Posted over 2 years ago

by Alistair S
- 2 Comments
Application Virtualization is a technology that we are really excited about in the Office team. However, due to the close interactions Office 2010 has with the Operating System, Servers and other applications it does pose some unique challenges. We provide...
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Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) version 2 (BETA) available for download

Posted over 2 years ago

by RossCC
- 2 Comments
The Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) version 2 (BETA) is available for download. Some of the new SCM 2 features include: GPO import : SCM 2 can now import Group Policy Object (GPO) Backup files to allow organizations to import and compare...
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Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 4 – Getting it to your users

Posted over 2 years ago

by Alistair S
- 2 Comments
Continuing on from Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 , Matt and Jason from 43Tc to share their real world experiences with Office 2010 and App-V and provide guidance on sequencing Office for App-V. In part 4 we look at preparing...