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Microsoft Yanks Three Bad Patches Of Their Last Outlook Patch (computerworld.com)
An anonymous reader quotes ComputerWorld's Woody Leonhard:
I just received word from Gunter Born that Microsoft has pulled three of its Outlook patches... There's no specific recommendation that you uninstall the yanked patches -- indeed, there's no description of the problems caused by the latest round -- but earlier versions of the bad patches-of-patches had a nasty habit of crashing Outlook... Microsoft still hasn't fixed any of the Office 2007 bugs it introduced in the June security patches.
If you're keeping score at home, the yanked patches are:
If you're keeping score at home, the yanked patches are:
- KB 4011042 - July 5, 2017, update for Outlook 2010
- KB 3191849 - June 27, 2017, update for Outlook 2013
- KB 3213654 - June 30, 2017, update for Outlook 2016
I didn't update but the update made me unable to search contacts. Meaning I HAD to update or else couldn't search contacts. Not a big deal but maybe this was one of the problems?
Are any of these concerned with Outlook blocking attachments that have very long (alphanumeric) file names? I've seen that happening last week.
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If you were a tester at Microsoft you either learned analytics and got reassigned or you got laid off. Now patches are dogfood tested and monitored via OCA. This works well enough for the latest and greatest products but not for older products still getting patches like Outlook 2007. Maybe one day Satya and his minions will figure out that those test labs really did add value.
I don't know if the update applies to Outlook 2016 for Mac or not.. but after the last update, I have been having the worst experience. I have one email address with my company that I've been with over 10 years. It's hosted with Rackspace. I have hundreds of folders with emails sorted. Periodically, all my emails for that email address disappear out of Outlook and then I see Outlook downloading all 26,000+ emails again. I tried right-clicking and repairing the folder and it made duplicates of every email and email folder. It's done the re-download multiple times now - and I cannot access the emails in Outlook until it's finished. It also adds recurring meetings back to my schedule even if they've been deleted for over a year. I spent hours with Microsoft support (via chat) until I gave up. They had me start a logging service and then another. Then they wanted me to upload the log file but the utility did not support a log file larger than maybe 15mb and my log file was 2.7GB. It basically felt like I was jumping through hoops where they'd give me longer and longer tasks to see how much I would do for them. It's a total mess. Office 2016 is buggy as all hell on the Mac.
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...try again later.
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Fail again M$
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Er ok, the last update was June 23, 2017, version 52.2.1.
How is that unsupported?
Excel has no real replacement
I've heard this before; I suspect it is for "power" users where LibreOffice lacks some of the really high-end stuff. I do want to put forward the idea, though, is that much of this "use" may be "abuse" --- pushing spreadsheets to do things that ought to be done another way that is less susceptible to error and easier to check and audit. Overly-complex spreadsheets are rather hard to error check.
Exchange has no real replacement if you are heavily into collaboration.
Someone else should respond here, but it seems there are many, many collaboration options out there.
The online cloud apps are pretty much a joke and in the case of google a bad joke.
Perhaps true for power users but for typical users? I'm not so sure. Google Docs is fine for many things, maybe not a 600 page novel or a complex legal filing, but for memos, letters, reports? Seems to work. Same with Google Sheets and even the presentation program.
Now it's more like hanging onto two bars of the grating from underneath, desperate to avoid joining Windows 8.
Apparently Microsoft is sponsoring some northeastern team called the Yanks that are going through a rough patch and have a bad outlook for the playoffs.
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Outlook is the worst email client ever.
I don't know what the other patches broke; as I run only 2010/13
I agree that switching away from MS Office frequently involves death by a thousand paper cuts; alternative products to MS Office tend to assume that end users do things 'correctly', which they frequently do not. We have one client whose "CRM" system involves dragging Word documents into the 'Notes' field of contacts in Outlook. I all too regularly see entire documents embedded where they shouldn't be, but "technically work". Word unfortunately has had a long standing history of shifting things around at the slightest provocation, so lots of people have templates where everything is where it's supposed to be and they just update the information, but the formatting would technically break if used under any other circumstance. LibreOffice is getting better all the time, and browser-based document suites solve issues like schedules and simple lists that need to be seen by everyone. However, I think it will be very difficult for Sheets and Excel Online to truly get to the point of replacing desktop Excel without collapsing under its own weight.
Regarding Exchange, it depends on how big the organization is and how much scaling is required. Basically, if multiple Exchange servers are a requirement, yeah, there aren't many alternatives that don't bring their own form of hell into the picture. For smaller (sub-1,000 mailbox) installs, however, Kerio and IceWarp are wonderful alternatives that aren't nearly as expensive as Exchange + Windows, and they run on Linux while still providing Activesync support.
Desperately waiting for an update to this fix. Users aren't able to send/receive certain attachments without it. I have the last patch (that MS pulled) and we're still installing it when needed. But I need a fix that will install via WSUS.
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AFAICT, the June patch(es) killed our ability to open PDFs or even links directly from Outlook.
Bit of a bitch going around manually uninstalling patch X to see if it helped (which seemed to only work about 40% of the time anyway).
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