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Today's Highlights:
Outlook Attachment & Custom Form Fix
After installing the June 13 2017 security update, users ran into a number of problems with attachments, custom forms, and search.
Outlook users received error messages when opening attachments on RTF formatted messages and other Outlook items or when the attachment filename contained certain characters. This required users to save the messages before opening them (or use other workarounds).
Creating new items using custom forms containing vbscript or certain controls triggered the following message.
"To help prevent malicious code from running, one or more objects in this form were not loaded. For more information, contact your administrator."
Instant search across all mailboxes resulted in an error message.
These problems are fixed in the Outlook updates released July 27 2017. (Junk mail filters are still broken.) Users with click to run installations who don’t want to wait for the update to be installed automatically can click File, Office Account, Update Options, Update Now. (You may need to repeat this a few times over several hours before the update comes down.)
MSI installations and Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 users can get the update from Microsoft update or download the update and install it. See the following links for more information and links to downloads the files.
Description of the security update for Outlook 2016: July 27, 2017
Description of the security update for Outlook 2013: July 27, 2017
Description of the security update for Outlook 2010: July 27, 2017
Description of the security update for Outlook 2007: July 27, 2017
Outlook known issues in the June 2017 security updates
For the most up-to-date information and screenshots, please read the article at
Advanced Find: Going Away
Users with the Insider builds noticed that Advanced Find is missing. This isn’t a bug; it was intentionally removed in preparation for improvements in search coming later this year. Based on data available to Microsoft (from people who agreed to share usage data with Microsoft), a very small percentage of users used Advanced Find. (Honestly, which is used more, Publisher or Advanced Find?)
While this is true, those who use Advanced Find rely heavily on it and it does one thing Instant Search can’t do: partial word searches. Plus, when Query Builder is enabled, users can easily create AND/OR queries.
In addition to removing Advanced find, Microsoft also removed the Expanded Find Pane and the fields from the More button, as well as Recent Search history.
Instant Search and Search folders can replace some of the functionality of Advanced Find (except for partial word searches). Refine your Instant Search queries using logical operators AND, NOT, OR, <, >, =. For more information, see Instant Search Queries
Microsoft’s announcement: Upcoming changes for Recent Searches, Advanced Find, and Expanded Find
For the most up-to-date information and screenshots, please read the article at
New AutoAccount Setup
Autoaccount setup is getting some improvements. While I don’t like the new dumbed-down dialog, I love how it makes setting up a POP3 account with an existing .pst file easier.
If the pst file is in the Outlook Files folder and the name is your email address, Outlook uses it instead of creating a new pst file. You don't have to select the .pst, Outlook picks it up automatically.
If you leave mail on the server, Outlook also appears to do a much better job at not downloading the old mail.
For the most up-to-date information and screenshots, please read the article at
New & Updated Exchange KB Articles
Description of the security update for Microsoft Exchange: July 11, 2017
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4018588
Synchronization problems occur in Outlook and in Outlook Web App
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2526306
"The property is too long" error when you update the "Department" field of user mailbox in Exchange Server 2013
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4024647
How to increase mailbox quota in the Office 365 dedicated/ITAR
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4035893
You can't start the eDiscovery PST Export Tool from the Exchange admin center in Exchange Online
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2919825
"This app could not be started" error in Outlook add-ins after a migration to Office 365 dedicated
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4034516
Security update for the Windows CLFS elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Server 2008: July 11, 2017
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4026059
Error when a mailbox name includes an umlaut in Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 5
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4019534
New & Updated Office 365 KB Articles
“Office 365 Video isn’t available” error when you browse to the Office 365 Video “Channels“ page
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3080437
Emojis are not displayed in Office applications in Windows 7
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4021341
How to increase mailbox quota in the Office 365 dedicated/ITAR
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4035893
How to use Exchange Server MAPI Editor in Office 365 dedicated/ITAR
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3053055
July 5, 2017, update for Skype for Business 2015 (Lync ...
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3213574
Synchronization problems occur in Outlook and in Outlook Web App
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2526306
Video channels aren’t available in the SharePoint Online Admin Center
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3140164
You can't start the eDiscovery PST Export Tool from the Exchange admin center in Exchange Online
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2919825
You see validation errors for users in the Office 365 portal or in the Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2741233
New & Updated Outlook KB Articles
"This app could not be started" error in Outlook add-ins after a migration to Office 365 dedicated
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4034516
Search folders show items from PersonMetadata with no subject in Outlook 2013 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4035436
Protect yourself from phishing - Windows Help
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4033787
Synchronization problems occur in Outlook and in Outlook Web App
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2526306
Description of the security update for Office for Mac 2011 14.7.6: July 11, 2017
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3212224
July 11, 2017, update for Microsoft Office
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4033107
July 5, 2017, update for Office 2016 (KB3115145)
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3115145
Other Resources
Run-a-Script Rules Missing in Outlook
Office 2016 and 2013 users who use run-a-script rules are discovering their scripts are currently disabled (as is Start Application), thanks to a security update. Restore these Actions using a registry edit.