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We have had reports of PowerPoint 2002 problems after installing the April 2011 Pubilc Update.
When you open presentations that contain layouts with background images in PowerPoint 2002, an error may occur. When the error occurs, you receive a message that states that some contents (text, images, or objects) have corrupted. You can determine what content has been lost by viewing the layout, but not by viewing the slide content. Items that were removed will display a blank box or a box that contains "cleansed."
We have released a hotfix to address this issue. You can read the new KB2543242 article here, and download the hotfix.
This update will also be made available as part of a future Public Update for PowerPoint 2002. We recommend all users who have installed KB2464617 to install this replacement hotfix.
After installing the April 2011 Public Update, some Outlook 2007 users reported difficulty with print previewing messages.
To correct this issue, we have issued a public hotfix, KB2512788, which you can download and install. This update will also be a part of a future Public Update posted to Microsoft Update as well.
If you have further questions, you can contact Microsoft Support for further assistance. For home users, no-charge support is available by calling 1-866-PCSAFETY in the United States and Canada or by contacting your local Microsoft subsidiary. For more information about how to contact your local Microsoft subsidiary for support issues with security updates.
Some users have contacted Microsoft support (and found their way to the blog comment feature) to ask for a remedy to the background images issue identified in the KB article relating to our PowerPoint 2003 April 2011 Public Update.
We had mentioned earlier that we intended to make a hotfix available as quickly as possible to address the situation. We have now posted an update to fix this issue. The KB article is here, and the download is here. You can manually download and install or deploy the fix. The new KB number is 2543241.
In our June Public Update release, we will release the update through the Automatic Update channel, where any remaining users will be updated with the changes.
Update: We are aware some of you are experiencing issues with two of the updates, KB2509470 (Outlook), 2464588 (PowerPoint).
KB2464588 issues have been addressed with a new update: http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/04/23/issues-after-installing-powerpoint-2003-update-kb2464588.aspx
In both cases, we are working on publishing an update to resolve the issues caused by those releases. We expect to release these updates as a hotfix to resolve those issues. We expect to have a PowerPoint update available for manual download before Monday, April 25th. We expect to have an Outlook update posted no later by Friday, April 29th. We'll keep this blog post updated as we have more information to share.
If you have further questions, you can contact Microsoft Support for further assistance. For home users, no-charge support is available by calling 1-866-PCSAFETY in the United States and Canada or by contacting your local Microsoft subsidiary. For more information about how to contact your local Microsoft subsidiary for support issues with security updates, visit the Microsoft International Support website:
The April Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains 4 security bulletins, 1 security advisory, and 8 non-security updates.
The following Security updates were released for:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-021
· Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2002 (KB2466169)· Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2010 (KB2466146), 32-bit / 64-bit Edition· Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2466156)· Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (KB2502786)· Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB2464583)· Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer (KB2466158)
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-023 and MS11-029 (XP Only)
· Security Update for Microsoft Office XP (KB2509461)· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2509503)· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2509488)
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-022
· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2464635)· Security Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (KB2464617)· Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (KB2464588)· Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (KB2464594)· Security Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 (KB2519975), 32-bit / 64-bit Edition· Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (KB2464623)· Security Update for PowerPoint Viewer 2010 (KB2519984)· Security Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 (KB2520047)
Microsoft Security Advisory (2501584) - Release of Microsoft Office File Validation for Microsoft Office
· Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB2464605)· Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2003 (KB2464603)· Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (KB2464599)· Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 (KB2464598)
Joining the security bulletins were a handful of non-security updates:
· Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2508958) which will decrease installation failures for updates installed on Microsoft Office 2007.· Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps (KB2510648) which provides critical compatibility updates for customers running mixed-mode server deployments.· Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2510639) which provides critical compatibility updates for customers running mixed-mode server deployments.· Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2509470) which provides stability and performance improvements.
As with normal cadence, Outlook Junk Email Filters for Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 32-bit/64-bit were also updated.
It is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Microsoft Office File Validation for Office 2003 and Office 2007.
Office File Validation is an Add-in that will validate incoming Office files to make sure the file structure conforms to the Office definition.
Today we released the Microsoft Office File Validation Security Advisory along with supporting documentation for Office File Validation. Below is the structure of the release and supporting articles.
If you need information on how this all fits together you can check out the TechNet article or review the Knowledge Base articles mentioned above.
Office File Validation will be available for Office 2003 and Office 2007 via Microsoft Update in the near future. At this time we didn’t release this update to the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) service.
Thanks,
Modesto, David, Lawrence
Update: Read more about 2010 SP1 in this post.
Summer is just around the corner, and as promised, we are on track for delivering Office 2010 SP1 and SharePoint 2010 SP1 in mid-summer 2011. During the coming weeks, you will see various teams updating their blogs with specific information about changes to appear in Service Pack 1. These posts should provide customers and administrators with great information about the upcoming release.
Keep an eye on this blog and the two blog families below for updates on Office 2010 SP1 and SharePoint 2010 SP1:
http://blogs.office.com (and related product team blogs) http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/ http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/
TechEd North America as a key venue where we will discuss SP1 at length, including the tentative release schedule. If you’re planning to attend, please be sure to stop into the session for details. We’ll also have more to share on this blog around that time as well.
In the meantime, we can reveal some additional detail around the SP1 release, including our plan for language-version updates. SP1 will update all 40 SKU languages for Office, and update the SKU languages for SharePoint (with appropriate caveats noted in the SharePoint blog post). In addition, 4 Language Interface Pack releases will also be updated: Galician, Basque, Catalan, Serbian Cyrillic. The time frames for releasing language versions of SP1 will be discussed in a future post.
As we briefly discussed on our last SP1 post, changes to Office and SharePoint products are cumulative. Any updated packages we ship (Word.msp, for example) contain Cumulative and Public updates to date. This is an advantage of Automatic Updates that is often unrecognized – keeping current significantly reduces the amount of testing necessary for Service Pack releases because those Public Updates already include the Cumulative Updates for the affected products / packages.
The data below is an accumulated list of all 2010 fixes that have already shipped. These will be included in our SP1 release. This is a combination of Cumulative Updates and Public Updates. In addition to what is listed below, SP1 will contain more fixes in each product. Between now and the time of release, we will publish more details about the coming changes. Office 2010 suites, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office 2010 servers, Office Web Apps, Search Server 2010, SharePoint 2010 Products, and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint are included in the list below.
Be sure to stay tuned to the Office and SharePoint team blogs in the coming weeks for important details of the SP1 release.