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Current Cumulative Updates for Office – Q1 2019

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 01/09/2019

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q4 2018

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 10/03/2018

Current Cumulative Updates for Office – Q3 2018

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/03/2018

Current Cumulative Updates for Office – Q2 2018

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 04/06/2018

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q4 2017

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 10/17/2017

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2017

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/03/2017

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q2 2017

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 04/19/2017

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q1 2017

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 01/03/2017

Skype for Business Mobile on iOS and the Inability for users to Send Logs

We’ve been getting sporadic reports from customers over the past couple months that the “Send Logs”...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 12/15/2016

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q4 2016

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 10/26/2016

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2016

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/01/2016

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q2 2016

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 04/13/2016

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q1 2016

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 01/04/2016

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2015

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/01/2015

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q2 2015

  • Editor's note: This post was written in April 2015 but issues with the system made it not be...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 06/04/2015

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q1 2015

  • Editor's note: This post was written in January 2015 but issues with the system made it not be...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 06/04/2015

New Recover Deleted Items from Server button in Outlook

  • UPDATED: June 3, 2015 - Added TCID1 value * Wanted to make you aware of a change made in Outlook...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 10/16/2014

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q4 2014

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 10/02/2014

Maintaining Lync and SQL

First, my apologies in advance for my being a bit long worded in this post, but I thought this was...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 08/21/2014

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2014

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/02/2014

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q2 2014

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 04/10/2014

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q1 2014

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 01/02/2014

Removing ActiveSync Devices Without Prompting

So, I consider myself a pretty good PowerShell user/scripter. But, I was stumped by a small issue...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 11/26/2013

Moving the OST in Outlook 2013 for Windows RT

I recently ran into this and wanted to share, as I'm sure others may run into this as well. As many...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 10/19/2013

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q4 2013

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 10/01/2013

Determining Lync 2013 Client Installed using the Registry

Recently a customer asked me for a way to determine which Lync 2013 client their users had installed...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 09/05/2013

Issues with Icons After July 2013 Lync 2013 Security Update is Installed

Several customers are reporting an issue after installing the July 2013 Security Update for Lync...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/15/2013

New Features in Lync 2013 Client with July 2013 Security Update

Update December 4, 2013: In the November 2013 update for the Lync 2013 Client, they changed the icon...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/10/2013

Change in Lync 2013 System Tray Icon with July 2013 Updates

Updated: September 16, 2013 : As mentioned in the comments, the September 2013 update for Lync 2013...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/10/2013

Exchange Setup Logs - Best Practices

One of the great things the Exchange Product Group did, starting with Exchange 2007, was to start...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/03/2013

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2013

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/01/2013

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q2 2013

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office -Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 04/08/2013

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q1 2013

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office -Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 01/03/2013

Lync 2013 SE Install - Service Control Manager error

So, ran into a little issue in my lab that I thought I'd share...since the solution wasn't readily...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 11/19/2012

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q4 2012

As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office -Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 10/01/2012

Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012

Almost a year ago, I posted Keeping Up with Office Updates which discusses the cumulative updates...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 07/06/2012

Part II: Disabled Accounts and Users Still Being Able to Access via Outlook & OWA

In Part I, I provided information regarding users’ mobile devices still being able to...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 06/27/2012

Part I : Disabled Accounts and ActiveSync Devices Continuing to Sync

Recently, an issue that has been around for some time started generating a lot of renewed interest....

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 06/26/2012

LDAP to OPATH Conversion - Why All The Parenthesis?

I recently was working with a customer in their process to convert their legacy Address Lists from...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 06/20/2012

Outlook Anywhere Network Timeout Issue

Background Over the past 6 months, our BPOS support team has been trying to get to the bottom of...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 06/06/2012

Forcing Use of Lync Web App to Join a Conference

Overview When you receive and click on a meeting request to join a Lync-based meeting, If you have...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 06/05/2012

ADTD Not Drawing Exchange Organization

Background The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer (ADTD), also previously called ADMap, is a...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 01/10/2012

Outlook, Discovery Mailboxes and Private Items

So, one of the great features of Exchange 2010 is the Discovery feature, also known as the...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 10/25/2011

Lync and Intermittent AOL PIC Issues

Background On of the features of the Communications Server product going all the way back to Live...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 09/27/2011

Office365 - Exchange 2003 Free/Busy Coexistence Issues

So, recently we worked an issue for a customer that we struggled with for a long time: Exchange 2003...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 09/09/2011

Keeping Up with Office Updates

A lot of folks do not understand that there are several different types of releases we provide for...

Author: Joe Schaeffer MSFT Date: 08/04/2011

Enterprise Message Size Limits

Overview In the ongoing administrator versus user fights, message size limits always seems to come...

Author: J. Carl Date: 06/08/2011

How to Block OWA for External Users

My customer decided that they needed to block OWA externally but leave it open internally. Why? OWA...

Author: J. Carl Date: 05/02/2011

Ever try to Export-CSV but information is missing in the CSV replaced SysInfo

This came from doing this command but one of the fields was not exporting… [PS]...

Author: Geraldr Date: 04/22/2011

How to Manage Exchange 2010 Message Queues

Queues · Get-Queue · Resume-Queue · Retry-Queue · Suspend-Queue Messages...

Author: Geraldr Date: 04/22/2011

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