Office Sustained Engineering

May 2012 Office Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:12:00 GMT

The May 2012 Public Update release for Office is now live and the updates are available for download. This release contains 4 security bulletins and 1 non-security update.

For an overview of this month’s security releases, please read: the Security Bulletin Summary for May 2012

Security Updates

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-029

Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB2596917)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2596880)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2003 (KB2598332)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-030

Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2010 (KB2597166) 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2010 (KB2597166) 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553371) 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553371) 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB2597161)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2007 (KB2596842)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2597162)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2597969)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (KB2597086)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-031

Security Update for Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 (KB2597981) 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 (KB2597981) 64-Bit Edition

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-034

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2589337) 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2589337) 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2596672)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2596792)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2598253)

Non-Security Updates

Update for Microsoft OneNote 2010 (KB2589345) 32-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft OneNote 2010 (KB2589345) 64-Bit Edition

As with normal cadence, Outlook Junk Email Filters for Office 2003 , 2007 and 2010 32-bit/64-bit were also updated.

April 2012 Office Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:52:00 GMT

The April 2012 Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains 2 security bulletins and 3 non-security updates.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-027

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2598039) 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2598041)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2597112)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-028

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2596871)

Non-Security Updates

Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553267) 64-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553267) 32-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Outlook Social Connector 2010 (KB2553406) 64-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Outlook Social Connector 2010 (KB2553406) 32-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (KB2553248) 64-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (KB2553248) 32-Bit Edition

As with normal cadence, Outlook Junk Email Filters for Office 2003 , 2007 and 2010 32-bit/64-bit were also updated.

Update to Office 2010 SP1 to prevent unintentional installation of SharePoint Workspace

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:33:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of an update for the issue described in KB2612800 (Office 2010 SP1 installs SharePoint Workspace). This update is available on the Microsoft Download Center, start with the KB link to find the correct version.

This update is designed to correct an issue with SharePoint Workspace 2010, where components are installed during the Office 2010 SP1 update even if they were explicitly not included during the Office Professional Plus original installation. In certain situations, Microsoft Office Groove 2007 is upgraded to SharePoint Workspace 2010 when you install Office SP1.

KB2598245 Description of the Office 2010 update: March 29, 2012 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2598245

This is a preventive fix that needs to be applied prior to the installation of SP1 to prevent the SharePoint Workspace (SPW) feature from being faulted in by SP1 or a later update. (If you already have installed SP1, please check the steps described in KB2612800)

You can access directly the patch from the following locations:

Download: Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2598245), 32-Bit Edition http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29250 (Office2010-kb2598245-fullfile-x86-glb.exe)

Download: Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2598245), 64-Bit Edition http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29249 (Office2010-kb2598245-fullfile-x64-glb.exe)

March 2012 Office Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:39:54 GMT

The March Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download.

This release contained Outlook Junk Email Filters for Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 32-bit/64-bit.

January 2012 Office Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:07:00 GMT

The January Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains 4 non-security updates.

Non-Security updates were released to:

Provide current definitions to the Junk Email Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2003

Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB 2596686) 32-Bit Edition
Definition Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB 982726) 32-Bit Edition
Definition Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB 982726) 64-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB 2597098)

December 2011 Office Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:55:00 GMT

The December Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains 5 security bulletins and 14 non-security updates.

Security updates were released for:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-088

· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2596511) 64-Bit Edition

· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2596511) 32-Bit Edition

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-089

· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2589320) 64-Bit Edition

· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2589320) 32-Bit Edition

· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2596785)

· Security Update for Microsoft Visio 2010 (KB2553374) 64-Bit Edition

· Security Update for Microsoft Visio 2010 (KB2553374) 32-Bit Edition

· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553353) 64-Bit Edition

· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553353) 32-Bit Edition

· Security Update for Microsoft Web Applications (KB2553153)

· Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2553132)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-091

· Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (KB2596705)

· Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 (KB2553084)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-094

· Security Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 (KB2553185) 64-Bit Edition

· Security Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 (KB2553185) 32-Bit Edition

· Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (KB2596764)

· Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (KB2596843)

· Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (KB2596912)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-096

· Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (KB2596954)

Non-Security updates were released for:

To fix UNC path changes after installing security update MS11-072:

· Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB2596596)

· Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2596651)

· Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2596789)

To fix calculation functionality in Excel:

· Update for Microsoft Excel 2010 (KB2553439) 64-Bit Edition

· Update for Microsoft Excel 2010 (KB2553439) 32-Bit Edition

To update proofing tools for memory functionality:

· Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2596963) 32-Bit Edition

· Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2596964) 32-Bit Edition

· Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553270) 64-Bit Edition

· Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553270) 32-Bit Edition

To fix Access 2010 crashes after installation of Office 2010 SP1:

· Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553385) 64-Bit Edition

· Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553385) 32-Bit Edition

Outlook Junk Email Filters for supported Office versions were also updated:

· Definition Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB982726), 32-Bit Edition

· Definition Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB982726), 64-Bit Edition

· Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB2597035)

Office 2007 Service Pack 3 Update List

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:40:00 GMT

Office 2007 Service Pack 3, which released in October 2011, includes a roll-up of all Public Update and Cumulative Update releases since SP2, as well as stability and performance improvements. A list of the Public Update and Cumulative Update releases follows:

Cumulative Update releases:

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for April 2009 – Released April 30, 2009

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for June 2009 – Released June 30, 2009

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for August 2009 – Released August 25, 2009

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for October 2009 – Released October 27, 2009

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for December 2009 – Released December 15, 2009

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for February 2010 – Released February 23, 2010

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for April 2010 – Released April 27, 2010

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for June 2010 – Released June 29, 2010

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for August 2010 – Released August 31, 2010

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for October 2010 – Released October 26, 2010

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for December 2010 – Released December 14, 2010

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for February 2011 – Released February 22, 2011

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for April 2011 – Released April 26, 2011

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for June 2011 – Released June 28, 2011

Office 2007 Cumulative Update for August 2011 – Released August 30, 2011

Public Update releases:

Security Update for PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (KB970059) – Released May, 5 2009

Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB967642) – Released May, 5 2009

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB969618) – Released May, 5 2009

Security Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (KB957789) – Released May, 5 2009

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB969559) – Released June, 9 2009

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB969907) – Released June, 9 2009

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB969679) – Released June, 9 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB969682) – Released June, 9 2009

Security Update for Excel Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB969737), 64-bit Edition – Released June, 9 2009

Security Update for Excel Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB969737), 32-bit Edition – Released June, 9 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer (KB969686) – Released June, 9 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB969604) – Released June, 9 2009

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB969613) – Released June, 9 2009

Update for 2007 Microsoft Office Servers (KB971620), 64-Bit Edition – Released July, 14 2009

Update for 2007 Microsoft Office Servers (KB971620), 32-Bit Edition – Released July, 14 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (KB969693) – Released July, 14 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB947318) – Released August, 11 2009

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB972581) – Released October, 13 2009

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB951944) – Released October, 13 2009

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB974234) – Released October, 13 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB972363) – Released October, 13 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio Viewer 2007 (KB973709) – Released October, 13 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB972363) – Released October, 13 2009

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB973704) – Released November, 10 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB973593) – Released November, 10 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer (KB973707) – Released November, 10 2009

Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB974561) – Released November, 10 2009

Security Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB949046) – Released December, 8 2009

Update for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (KB976416) – Released December, 8 2009

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB978380) – Released March, 9 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB978382) – Released March, 9 2010

Security Update for Excel Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB979439), 64-bit Edition – Released March, 9 2010

Security Update for Excel Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB979439), 32-bit Edition – Released March, 9 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer (KB978383) – Released March, 9 2010

Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB979806) – Released April, 13 2010

Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB981715) – Released April, 13 2010

Update for Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 (KB980729) – Released April, 13 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (KB980470) – Released April, 13 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (KB979365) – Released April, 13 2010

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB976321) – Released May, 11 2010

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB982331) – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB982308) – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer (KB982333) – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB982312) – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (KB982158) – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (KB979441) – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (KB982124) – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (KB982127) – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB982135) – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB979445), 64-bit Edition – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB979445), 32-bit Edition – Released June, 8 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Access 2007 (KB979440) – Released July, 13 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB980376) – Released July, 13 2010

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2277947) – Released August, 10 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB2251419) – Released August, 10 2010

Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2284654) – Released September, 14 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2288953) – Released September, 14 2010

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2288621) – Released September, 14 2010

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2344875) – Released October 12, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB2345035) – Released October 12, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer (KB2345088) – Released October 12, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2345212) 64-Bit – Released October 12, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2345212) 32-Bit – Released October 12, 2010

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2345043) – Released October 12, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB2344993) – Released October 12, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB2251419) for CSA – Released October 12, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (KB2413381) – Released November 9, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2289158) – Released November 9, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2288931) – Released December 14, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2433089) 64-Bit – Released December 14, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2433089) 32-Bit – Released December 14, 2010

Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (KB2284697) – Released December 14, 2010

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2412171) – Released January 11, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (KB2434737) – Released February 8, 2011

Security Update for Groove 2007 (KB2494047) – Released March 8, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer (KB2466158) – Released April 12, 2011

Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2508958) – Released April 12, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB2464583) – Released April 12, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (KB2464594) – Released April 12, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (KB2464623) – Released April 12, 2011

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2466156) – Released April 12, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2464635) – Released April 12, 2011

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2509470) – Released April 12, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2509488) – Released April 12, 2011

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2509470) – Released May 10, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2540162) – Released May 10, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (KB2535818) – Released May 10, 2011

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2541012) – Released June 14, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB2541007) – Released June 14, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer (KB2541015) – Released June 14, 2011

Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2539530) – Released June 14, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (KB2510061) – Released June 14, 2011

Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (KB2553010) – Released August 9, 2011

November 2011 Office Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:41:00 GMT

The November Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains multiple non-security updates.

Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553455) 64-Bit Edition, 32-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553310) 64-Bit Edition, 32-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553181) 64-Bit Edition, 32-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft OneNote 2010 (KB2553290) 64-Bit Edition, 32-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (KB2553323) 64-Bit Edition, 32-Bit Edition

As with normal cadence, Outlook Junk Email Filters for Office 2003 and 2010 32-bit/64-bit were also updated.

Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 3 Availability

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:59:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the availability of Service Pack 3 (SP3) for our 2007 family of products.

This service pack contains all the Cumulative Updates and Public Updates for Office 2007 that have shipped since SP2 for both the Office client suites and applications, and the SharePoint server applications. The Project Server updates are included along with the SharePoint updates in the Office Servers SP3 updates. SP3 also contains additional new fixes which are described here. For a list of changes for each product, please refer to their individual KBs. The KB Articles referenced below will be updated throughout the day to include the live links to the published articles.

Starting today, SP3 is available from the Download center. The Downloads Table below provides links to the new packages for SP3. If you have installed all Office Automatic Updates, you will also see SP3 available as a manual download from Microsoft Update. After a 90 day period, SP3 will be offered as an automatic update through Microsoft Update.

Our deployment guidance for 2007 servers remains consistent with the guidance we have provided in the past. Office Client deployment for SP3 will also remain consistent with prior guidance. You can read more information in our previous post here.

Download Links for 2007 Service Pack 3

2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 3 (SP3) and Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 SP3	2526086	Suite: 32-bit ; LPK: 32-bit
2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 3 (SP3) and 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack (SP3)	2526299	Server Suite: 32-bit; LPK: 32-bit ; Server Suite: 64-bit; LPK: 64-bit
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and of Office SharePoint Designer Language Pack 2007 SP3	2526089	SharePoint Designer: 32-bit; LPK: 32bit
Office Project 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and of Office Project Language Pack 2007 SP3	2526091	Project: 32-bit; Project LPK: 32-bit
Office Visio 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and of Office Visio Language Pack 2007 SP3	2526291	Visio: 32-bit; Visio LPK: 32-bit
Office Proofing Tools 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)	2526293	32-bit
Microsoft Office Language Interface Pack 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)	2526307	32-bit
PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)	2526298	32-bit
Visio Viewer 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)	2526301	32-bit
Excel Viewer 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)	2526302	32-bit
Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)	2526294	32-bit
Microsoft Office InterConnect 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)	2526296	32-bit
Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3 (SP3)	2526297	32-bit
Microsoft Office Access Runtime and Data Connectivity Components 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)	2526310	32-bit
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack SP3	2526305	WSS 3.0: 32-bit; LPK: 32-bit ; WSS 3.0: 64-bit; LPK: 64-bit
Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and of Microsoft Expression Web Language Pack SP3	2575737	Expression Web : 32-bit; LPK: 32-bit
Known issues that you may experience when you install the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 3 (SP3) and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP3	2591067	n/a
List of all 2007 Office system Service Pack 3 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 3 packages	2591018	n/a
Technical details about the 2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 3 (SP3) releases	2591039	n/a
Technical details about the 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 3 (SP3) releases	2591050	n/a
Technical details about the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) releases	2591054	n/a

Office 2010 Sp1 Microsoft Update Change for Language Installs

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:51:00 GMT

During the release of Office 2010 Service Pack 1 we found that if you had an Office install with multiple languages only the English version would be updated. On October 17th we rolled out the fix that would detect multiple languages on the same machine thus updating all languages to Sp1.

What does this mean if you’ve installed Sp1?
If you have Sp1 installed and go to Microsoft Update you may see Sp1 listed again ready for download. This will happen if you have multiple languages installed of Office 2010.

For the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) admins you will see Office 2010 Sp1 offered in the Windows Admin console ready for approval.

There are no file/binary updates with this change only a detection on the Microsoft Update service. We now target the other languages installed on the machine.

We will be updating KB2510690 with this information.

October 2011 Updates and release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:59:00 GMT

Hello,

Today's is a small month with two updates being release for the Outlook Junk email Filter.

The Update now live and available for download.

Outlook Junk Email Filters for Office 2003 and 2007.

Announcing Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:35:00 GMT

Today we’re pleased to announce the 3^rd (and likely final) Service Pack release for Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007. We are targeting a release date within Calendar Q4 2011. As we approach the date we will have more to share on exact timing.

We are offering this release in preparation for the April October 2012 end of mainstream support for the 2007 client and server products. The October 2011 release provides a 6-month window to test and deploy the release prior to exiting mainstream support. (note: the correction is due to an error in the support date that was fixed on the product support lifecycle web page. The correct date is October).

Upgrading to Office 2010 is also an option for those who are still using Office 2007. Office 2010 will remain in mainstream support until 2015, and this path provides a much better option for those looking to upgrade from Office 2003 prior to its end of life, scheduled for April 2014.

For those of you hoping to test SP3 prior to its deployment, we will continue or standard practice with Service Pack releases. Initially SP3 will be offered through the Microsoft Download Center as a manual download, through Microsoft Update as an Optional update. No earlier than 90 days after release, we will convert SP3 to an Automatic Update for our 2007 customers.

Service Pack 3 contains a roll-up of all 2007 Cumulative and Public Updates since Service Pack 2 for both Office client suites and applications as well as SharePoint Servers, in addition to some new fixes for issues discovered during the lifecycle of SP2.

For each of these products, if you are current with Automatic Updates for Office 2007, you have already installed most of the changes in the release. SP3 is much smaller than 2007 SP1, SP2 or the recently released 2010 SP1. We will provide documentation detailing the changes and the affected packages on TechNet.

The deployment experience should be straightforward. Unlike 2010 SP1, we will not be asking customers to deploy the accompanying Cumulative Update at the same time. Our deployment guidance for 2007 servers remains consistent with the guidance we have provided in the past. Office Client deployment for SP3 will also remain consistent with prior guidance.

SP3 will include changes in the following areas:

Office Client 2007 Suites
Office SharePoint 2007 Servers
Office SharePoint Search Server 2007
Office SharePoint Designer 2007
Office Project 2007
Office Visio 2007
Office Proofing tools 2007
Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007
Office InterConnect 2007
Office Compatibility Pack
PowerPoint Viewer
Visio Viewer
Office Servers Language Pack
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Office Access Runtime and Data Connectivity Components

September 2011 Office Security Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:32:00 GMT

The September Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains 3 security bulletins and 17 non-security updates.

Security updates were released for:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-072

These Excel updates address the vulnerabilities by correcting the way that Microsoft Excel manages objects in memory, indexes an array of memory locations, arses certain records in Excel files, handles a particular type of conditional expression, and conducts bounds checking on array index values. Please see associated KB articles for more information around these updates.

Security Update for Excel Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2553093), 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2010 (KB2553070), 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2010 (KB2553070), 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Excel Web Application 2010 (KB2553095)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2553089)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2553090)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553091), 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553091), 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553096), 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553096), 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (KB2553072)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB2553073)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel Viewer (KB2553075)
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2553094)
Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2553074)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-073

These Office security updates address the vulnerabilities by correcting the way Microsoft Office loads external libraries and initializes objects. Please see associated KB articles for more information around these updates.

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2584052)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2584063)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2584066), 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2584066), 64-Bit Edition

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-074

These security updates address the vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Microsoft SharePoint validates and sanitizes user input, parses malicious XML and XSL files, and handles script contained inside of specific request parameters. Please see associated KB articles for more information around these updates.

Security Update for Microsoft 2010 Word Web Application (KB2566450)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 (KB2553005), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office Groove 2007 (KB2552997)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 (KB2552998)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 (KB2552999)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Groove Server 2010 (KB2508965)
Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2345212), 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2508964), 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2553001), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2553002), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2553003), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2494022)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 (KB2566449)
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2560885)
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2560890)
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2560890)
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2566456)
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2566954)
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2566958)
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2566960)
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 (KB2566445), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Office SharePoint Foundation 2010 (KB2494001)
Security Update for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (KB2494007)
Security Update for Windows SharePoint Services 2007 (KB2493987), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition

Non-Security updates were released:

To enhance the controls/engine associated with Office Click-to-Run:

Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2515417)

To decrease installation failures for updates installed on Office 2010:

Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2553092), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition

To enhance Office SharePoint Online:

Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2566458), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition

To enhance the user experience when mapping an address to a contact in Outlook:

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2583910)

To update the Office File Validation catalogue and to address performance issues when using workbooks stored on network locations:

Update for Office File Validation 2010 (KB2553065), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition

To facilitate changes to the time-zone data to accommodate daylight savings time:

Update for Office SharePoint Foundation 2010 (KB2553014)
Update for Windows SharePoint Services 2007 (KB2553018), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition

To enhance the experience of Office 365 users in conjunction with the Outlook Social Connector:

Update for Outlook Social Connector 2010 (KB2583935), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition

Outlook Junk Email Filters for supported Office versions were also updated:

Definition Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB982726), 32-Bit Edition and 64-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB2553111)
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB2553110)

Daylight Savings Time (DST) Updates for SharePoint

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:20:00 GMT

The August 2011 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Foundation (2010, 2007) contains the following Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes:

Russian Time Zones:

A new time zone has been created for Kaliningrad with display name “(UTC+3:00) Kaliningrad”. This time zone does not support Daylight Saving Time.
Support for Daylight Saving Time has been discontinued and UTC offsets have been updated for time zones listed in the table below:

Time Zone	Old	New
Russian Standard Time	(UTC +3:00) Moscow, St Petersburg, Volgograd	(UTC +4:00) Moscow, St Petersburg, Volgograd
Ekaterinburg Standard Time	(UTC +5:00) Ekaterinburg	(UTC +6:00) Ekaterinburg
N. Central Asia Standard Time	(UTC +6:00) Novosibirsk	(UTC +7:00) Novosibirsk
North Asia Standard Time	(UTC +7:00) Krasnoyarsk	(UTC +8:00) Krasnoyarsk
North Asia East Standard Time	(UTC +8:00) Irkutsk	(UTC +9:00) Irkutsk
Yakutsk Standard Time	(UTC +9:00) Yakutsk	(UTC +10:00) Yakutsk
Vladivostok Standard Time	(UTC +10:00) Vladivostok	(UTC +11:00) Vladivostok
Magadan Standard Time	(UTC +11:00) Magadan	(UTC +12:00) Magadan

It also contains 2011-adjusted DST start and end dates for the following time zones:

Fiji Standard Time
Samoa Standard Time

In addition to these changes, the August 2011 CU update rolls up the DST changes that were previously released in the June 2011 CU:

KB2553931 - includes 2011 DST changes for Egypt (DST cancellation), Namibia, Magadan & Israel.

If you'd like to keep track of regular updates in this area, you can get updates and information at the Daylight Saving Time Help and
Support Center.

August 2011 Office Security Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:44:00 GMT

The August Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains 1 security bulletin and 3 non-security updates.

The following Security updates were released for:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-060

Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio 2003 (KB2553009)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (KB2553010)
Security Update for Microsoft Visio 2010 (KB2553008), 64-Bit Edition and 32-Bit Edition

As with normal cadence, Outlook Junk Email Filters for Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 64-Bit / 32-Bit Edition were also updated.

July 2011 Office Security Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:56:00 GMT

The July Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains 1 security bulletin and 3 non-security updates.

The following Security update were released for:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-055

· Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2493523)

Joining the security bulletin was the Service Pack 1 for Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (KB2553006), 64-bit Edition and 32-bit Edition

As with normal cadence, Outlook Junk Email Filter for Office 2007 was also updated.

Office Binary File Format Validation Tool Available

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:27:11 GMT

Please visit the entire post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeinteroperability/archive/2011/07/12/microsoft-office-binary-file-format-validator-is-now-available.aspx

The Office Interoperability team is proud to announce the public Beta release of the Microsoft Office Binary File Format Validator (BFFValidator) tool. Available on the Microsoft Download Center , BFFValidator is a tool that will validate whether a .doc, .ppt, or .xls binary file format (bff) file is conformant with the Microsoft Office File Format Open Specifications .

Congratulations to the Office Interoperability team on a great accomplishment.

Office 2010 Service Pack 1 - 5 Common questions regarding the Service Pack

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:20:00 GMT

With Office 2010 Service Pack 1 having now been out for one week, we wanted to cover some of the most common questions we’ve been getting. Here is a compiled list of the 5 most common questions.

Will installing Office 2010 Service Pack 1 require a reboot?
Common Problem: “The installation of this package failed”
How do I confirm that I have Office 2010 Service Pack 1 installed?
Can I uninstall Office Service Pack 1?
If I uninstall the Service Pack that contains the security fixes, am I vulnerable?

1. Will installing Office 2010 Service Pack 1 require a reboot?

In the majority installs for Client and Server, Office 2010 SP1 may require a reboot. To decrease the likelihood of the reboot, it is advised to close down all open Office applications prior to install.

2. Common Problem: “The installation of this package failed” due to not enough disk space

This is the generic error dialog that appears when an unknown error occurs during installation. The majority of these failures are related to not having enough space on the system drive. The download size for Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 x86 is 361 MB, however with extraction (%temp%) and windows installer caching (%windir%), the amount of disk space required for installation is around 1.3 GB.

If freeing up disk space does not solve the issue, please read the following KB article KB954713.

3. How do I confirm that I have Office 2010 Service Pack 1 installed?

There are several ways to learn whether or not you have Office SP1.

The first is checking the updates through Add/Remove programs. This can be done by opening the Start Menu, go to the Control Panel, and then click on Programs [and Features]. From there, click on View installed updates which will display entries for installed SP1 update.

Another way to see if Service Pack 1 is installed is to view the Help documentation in any of the individual applications. To do this, click the File tab in the top left, and then find and click “Help” in the left menu. From the “Help” page, you will see the following dialog on the right side of the page.

Click on the Additional Version and Copyright link to bring up the following dialog which will show the version along with the Service Pack baseline.

The best way to learn if you’re completely up to date with all of Office SP1 is to scan MU. If this is not an option, you can get a comprehensive list of all Office Products are installed and what baseline they are at by using the ROIScan tool located here on TechNet.

4. Can I uninstall Office Service Pack 1?

Note: Server packages are NOT uninstallable for Office 2010 Service Pack 1

Yes, with Office 2010 you have the ability to uninstall the service pack on your client machines. For this service pack, we have added the ability to uninstall SP1 updates through Add/Remove Programs. In the near future we will also be releasing a tool similiar to Oarpman (used for 2007 Sp2) which allows you to streamline the removal of the service pack from your client machines.

NOTE: Uninstalling the service pack will remove the SP from any product that has the service pack install (e.g. if you have Office and Project Sp1 installed on the same machine by removing Office Sp1 you will also remove the SP for Project). To use this feature, open the Start Menu, go to the Control Panel, and then click on Programs [and Features]. From there, click on View installed updates which will display entries for each installed SP1 update. You can now select any client update and click “Uninstall” in the menu:

You will then see the following two dialogs:

After completing uninstall, you will likely be prompted to restart to complete the action.

5. If I uninstall the Service Pack that contains the security fixes, am I vulnerable?

After you uninstall the service pack it is recommended to go to Microsoft Update to scan for the latest security updates. After doing so you will be up to date with all Microsoft Office security updates that have been released. Per Microsoft policy we will support both the service pack and the original release for a 12 month period.

End of support for Office XP

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:53:52 GMT

Per our earlier post, this is a reminder that on July 12, Office XP will exit the Extended Support phase of its lifecycle, per the Support Policy of Microsoft.

After the end of support, Microsoft will no longer provide public fixes for the Office XP release. Automatic Updates that ship on “Patch Tuesday” will be discontinued for Office XP. There will be no effect on installed software; products will still continue to function., activation will continue to work as expected.

Office XP was quite a remarkable release, it was the version of Office that deprecated Clippy and brought us SharePoint, Web Services integration and other things. SharePoint Team Services turned out to be a pretty smart bet, growing to a $1.3B business over the next 10 years, adding over 20,000 users each day. Office XP brought us Activation, Task Panes, Speech Recognition, Word’s “Reveal Formatting” command, the Data Connection Wizard of Excel, Rules in Outlook, and even the Path animation type in PowerPoint. As with all releases of Office, XP introduced quite a bit of new capability. The original Office XP Press Release is still available, dated March 5, 2001.

What options do Office XP users have?

Microsoft recommends that customers keep their systems secure by upgrading to the latest, supported product and/or service pack, such as Microsoft Office 2010. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 and Office 2003 Service Pack 3 are also supported for the duration outlined in the Support Lifecycle Product Database.

For our Premier Support customers, a Custom Support program is available. The support team has posted a useful web page about available options for retired product support. They have also published a good FAQ page to explain some of the background on the support policy.

For more information, consult these resources:

· Retired Product Support Options
· Microsoft Services Premier Support
· Microsoft Services Premier Support – Custom Support
· Support Lifecycle Information for all Office Products
· Office XP Support Lifecycle
· Microsoft Support Lifecycle

SharePoint 2010 SP1 and the June Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:35:59 GMT

Yesterday Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint 2010 was made available. SP1 contains a number of important fixes that improve the SharePoint experience for our customers. With the recommendation to install SP1 for SharePoint came a recommendation to ALSO deploy the June Cumulative Update (CU) for SharePoint simultaneously.

It’s worth explaining this recommendation in detail and answering some common questions about how / why we made this recommendation.

First, to explain the difference between SP1 and the June CU.

SharePoint 2010 SP1 contains all SharePoint updates published through the April 2011 Cumulative Update in addition to other fixes that were applied specifically to SP1 during its development. SP1 is a baseline, and that baseline is tied to our Service Pack Life Cycle Policy. We recommend applying SP1 to your SharePoint environment because it resets the baseline for your entire SharePoint environment, and prepares your environment for future releases such as the June CU.
The June Cumulative Update is the first Post-SP1 build released to customers. It contains new fixes to issues raised through various escalation channels and through our support organization. The June CU is based on Service Pack 1, but it adds new updates to some of (not all) the packages that SP1 installs.

The recommended approach is to apply Service Pack 1 and the June CU into an environment together. Because the packages changed by the June CU supersede SP1, the order of installation isn’t critical. If you install the CU before SP1, the packages that the CU updated won’t be overwritten by SP1. Because the June CU is from a later build than SP1, many will be comfortable installing SP1 first, and then applying the CU.

A separate topic of conversation is the order in which you should apply SharePoint Foundation vs. SharePoint Server Updates. Per the guidance from the SharePoint team, when applying SP1 or the CU it is recommended to apply the Foundation packages before applying the server packages.

The recommended order of installation is as follows:

Update Foundation first:
SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 1
Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Language Pack
June 2011 CU for SharePoint Foundation 2010

Then SharePoint Server:
SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1
Service Pack 1 for Server Language Pack 2010
June 2011 CU for SharePoint Server 2010

You can then run the Configuration Wizard (PSConfig) one time on all boxes.

Some links which will help in planning and executing your SharePoint 2010 SP1 and SharePoint 2010 June CU deployment:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx – Updates for SharePoint Products
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806326.aspx – SharePoint Foundation Updates
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806329.aspx – SharePoint Server Updates
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2510766 – List of all SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 Packages
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2532120 – Technical Details about the SharePoint 2010 SP1 and Office Server 2010 releases
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2536599 – Description of the June CU for SharePoint Server 2010
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806338.aspx – Install a Software Update for SharePoint Server 2010

Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 Availability

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:00:00 GMT

We are thrilled to announce the availability of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for our 2010 family of products.

The SP1 release is important because it provides us with an opportunity to address customer feedback as well as the security, stability and performance of our 2010 wave of products. The release underscores our commitment to improving the quality of our software over time. We are grateful to those customers and partners who have taken time to provide us the feedback that makes our products and services better.

SP1 contains all Cumulative Updates and Public Updates for 2010 that have already shipped. SP1 also contains new fixes for areas of each product. For those of you seeking a complete list of changes for each product contained in SP1, please visit this Excel Workbook – this is a very handy reference for those building test / evaluation plans for Office Client SP1. The workbook containing the changes for SharePoint Server 2010 is located under this link. The KB Articles referenced below will be updated throughout the day to include the live links to the published articles.

Beginning tomorrow, various Office teams will update their respective team blogs with additional information on SP1. Today you can hop over to the SharePoint Team Blog to read a bit more about the SP1 release.

Today SP1 is available from the Download center. The Downloads Table below provides links to the new packages for SP1. If you have installed all Office Automatic Updates, you will also see SP1 available as a manual download from Microsoft Update. After a 90 day grace period, SP1 will be offered as an automatic update through Microsoft Update. Customers using the Office Click-to-Run technology will have SP1 streamed to them beginning in July.

For SharePoint customers planning to deploy Service Pack 1, it is also recommended to install the June 2011 Cumulative Update for SharePoint when it becomes available in the coming weeks.

Download Links for 2010 Service Pack 1

Access 2010 Runtime SP1	2460015	32-bit	64-bit
Access Database Engine 2010 SP1	2460011	32-bt	64-bit
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint SP1	2460039		64-bit
Groove Server 2010 SP1	2460067		64-bit
Office 2010 Filter Pack SP1	2460041	32-bit	64-bit
Office 2010 Language Pack SP1	2460043	32-bit	64-bit
Office 2010 SP1	2460049	32-bit	64-bit
Office Language Interface Pack 2010 SP1	2460044	32-bit	64-bit
Office Proofing Tools 2010 SP1	2460053	32-bit	64-bit
Office Web Apps 2010 SP1	2460073		64-bit
PowerPoint Viewer SP1	2460050	32-bit
Project 2010 SP1	2460052	32-bit	64-bit
Project Server 2010 SP1	2460047		64-bit
Search Server 2010 SP1	2460070		64-bit
Server Language Pack SP1	2460056		64-bit
SharePoint 2010 Indexing Connector for Documentum SP1	2460054		64-bit
SharePoint Designer 2010 SP1	2460057	32-bit	64-bit
SharePoint Foundation 2010 Client Object Model Redistributable SP1	2508825	32-bit	64-bit
SharePoint Foundation 2010 Language Pack SP1	2460059		64-bit
SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1	2460058		64-bit
SharePoint Server 2010 SP1	2460045		64-bit
Visio 2010 SP1	2460061	32-bit	64-bit
Visio Viewer 2010 SP1	2460065	32-bit	64-bit

File Based detection versus Windows Installer detection

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:44:00 GMT

A common question we’ve been getting is “How come my third party tool says that a file needs to be updated, but when I go to Microsoft Update, I see ‘There are no new updates available for your computer’?” This is because Office updates utilize Windows Installer technology to determine if a file needs to be updated. When you click “Check for Updates” in the Windows Update app, the Windows Update agent determines which Office updates are applicable to your machine based on the products that are installed. This is done by evaluating applicability rules as defined for each update. To learn more about applicability rules used by the Windows Update agent, review this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb902473(VS.85).aspx

Using Windows Installer to detect applicability has several benefits over file based detection. This includes the ability to update multiple products, repair functionality for missing files and components, and support for reliable uninstallation of updates. To learn more about Windows Installer, review this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310598

Other tools that use file based detection utilize a list of expected file versions when scanning a machine to determine which files need to be updated. This can sometimes be problematic since an Office update may no longer contain a specific file after support for an old baseline (e.g. Service Pack) has been removed, but the file based detection tool still expects the files to be at that specific version. Thus providing you with a false positive result from the scan.

Using Windows Installer to Inventory Products and Patches: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369558(v=VS.85).aspx

To learn more about tools that can be used for detection, review this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961747

June 2011 Office Security Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:10:00 GMT

The June Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains 2 security bulletins and 6 non-security updates.

The following Security updates were released for:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-045

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-049

Security Update for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (KB2510061)
Security Update for Microsoft InfoPath 2010 (KB2510065), 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft InfoPath 2010 (KB2510065), 32-Bit Edition

Joining the security bulletins were a handful of non-security updates:

Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2543854) which decreases installation failures for updates installed on Microsoft Office 2003.
Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2539581), Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2539530 ), Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2523113), 64-Bit Edition, Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2523113), 32-Bit Edition which add support for the new Indian rupee currency symbol.

As with normal cadence, Outlook Junk Email Filter for Office 2003 was also updated.

Announcing Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:20:00 GMT

Welcome to TechEd Atlanta! For those of you unable to attend the event in person, we’d like to take a moment to introduce our Service Pack 1 release.

Service Pack 1 is on track for release at the end of June.

SP1 releases for both Office client suites and SharePoint server products will be made available. All language versions of SP1 will release simultaneously. Initially, Service Pack 1 will be offered as a manual download from the Download Center and from Microsoft Update, and no sooner than 90 days after release, will be made available as an Automatic Update.

SP1 will include many interesting changes. Across the client suites and server products, SP1 offers a sprinkling of improvements to make a strong 2010 release wave even stronger. During TechEd and beyond, teams on http://blogs.office.com will update their blogs with more specific details of 2010 Service Pack 1 contents.

There are far too many changes in SP1 to list here, but the list below is a sample of SP1 highlights to get things started. This is a list of things that you can do now that you couldn’t before, or things that are just better than they were with the original release:

Outlook fixes an issue where “Snooze Time” would not reset between appointments.
The default behavior for PowerPoint "Use Presenter View" option changed to display the slide show on the secondary monitor.
Integrated community content in the Access Application Part Gallery.
Better alignment between Project Server and SharePoint Server browser support.
Improved backup / restore functionality for SharePoint Server
The Word Web Application extends printing support to “Edit Mode.”
Project Professional now synchronizes scheduled tasks with SharePoint task lists.
Internet Explorer 9 “Native” support for Office Web Applications and SharePoint
Office Web Applications Support for Chrome
Inserting Charts into Excel Workbooks using Excel Web Application
Support for searching PPSX files in Search Server
Visio Fixes scaling issues and arrowhead rendering errors with SVG export
Proofing Tools improve spelling suggestions in Canadian English, French, Swedish and European Portuguese.
Outlook Web Application Attachment Preview (with Exchange Online only)
Office client suites using “Add Remove Programs” Control Panel, building on our work from Office 2007 SP2

Each product in Office and each Server capability area will have changes in SP1. Specific changes will be detailed on TechNet and in KB Articles. On release day, we will publish all associated KB articles on this blog for reference.

As we have discussed in prior blog posts, SP1 will also roll-up our Public Update and Cumulative Update releases to date. SP1 will include all of these fixes, and represent a milestone in the support lifecycle of Office and SharePoint 2010 versions. Below is the list of fixes to date for 2010 products.

Office 2010 April 2011 Cumulative Update (KB 2528533) – Released April 26, 2011
Security and Non-Security Updates for April 2011 – Released April 12, 2011
Security and Non-Security Updates for March 2011 – Released March 8, 2011
Office 2010 February 2011 Cumulative Update (KB 2493730) – Released February 22, 2011
Security and Non-Security Updates for February 2011 – Released February 8, 2011
Non-Security Updates for January 2011 – Released January 11, 2011
Office 2010 December 2010 Cumulative Update (KB 2479673) – Released December 14, 2010
Security and Non-Security Updates for December 2010 – Released December 14, 2010
Security and Non-Security Updates for November 2010 – Released November 9, 2010
Office 2010 October 2010 Cumulative Update (KB 2449183) – Released October 26, 2010
Security and Non-Security Updates for October 2010 – Released October 12, 2010
Security and Non-Security Updates for September 2010 – Released September 14, 2010
Office 2010 August 2010 Cumulative Update (KB 2396341) – Released August 31, 2010
Security and Non-Security Updates for August 2010 – Released August 10, 2010
Security and Non-Security Updates for July 2010 – Released July 13, 2010
Office 2010 June 2010 Cumulative Update (KB 2259686) – Released June 29, 2010

TechEd Sessions for Office Client & SP1
For TechEd attendees, make sure you stop into the Office booth to discuss our SP1 changes. Office, SharePoint, Project, Visio will all be represented there and will be happy to talk to you about the release. SharePoint has no specific session content dedicated to SP1, but they will be available in the booth to answer questions. Be sure to visit the SharePoint Team Blog for SP1 details as well. You can find the location and other information about TechEd sessions in the official session schedule. Here’s where you can learn more about SP1 for the client suites:

Monday
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM: OSP371-WRK - Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment: Walk-through of an Office 2010 Deployment for IT Professionals

Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM: OSP314 - Architecting Microsoft Office for Physical, Virtual and Cloud Deployments

Wednesday
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM: OSP371R-WRK - Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment: Walk-through of an Office 2010 Deployment for IT Professionals

Thursday
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM: OSP315 - Managing Microsoft Office in an Interoperable and Multi-Device World

May 2011 Office Security Update Release

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:02:00 GMT

The May Public Update release for Office is now live and available for download. This release contains 1 security bulletin and 3 non-security updates.

The following Security updates were released for:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-036

The PowerPoint patches released this month contain fixes to issues of corrupted background images in layout slides that were reported with the PowerPoint 2003 and 2002 April 2011 Public Updates.

For users who experienced problems with PowerPoint Public Updates (KB2464588 or KB2464617), the May Public Update includes fixes for the PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 issues. Additionally, for those users experiencing document issues after installing this update please review the workarounds listed in the KB’s for 2003 or 2002.

Joining the security bulletin is a rerelease of Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2509470) which fixes issues around print previewing that were reported with the Outlook 2007 April 2011 Public Update.

As with normal cadence, Outlook Junk Email Filters for Office 2003 and 2007 were also updated.