Category: Microsoft
Anything related to Microsoft and their products
Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus for Vocational Education
I think Microsoft should create Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus for Vocational Education, consisting of: Word Excel PowerPoint OneNote Access Publisher Outlook Skype for Business InfoPath OneDrive for Business Project Visio I.e. the regular list of Office 365 ProPlus products plus Project and Visio. The reason is simply that Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus is incompatible with […]
Read More → Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus for Vocational EducationUpgrading to Windows 10, version 1511, build 10586
Upgrading to the latest version of Windows 10 isn’t straightforward for all of us. For some reason, Windows Update is unable to perform its duties when asked to look after “other Microsoft products”.
Read More → Upgrading to Windows 10, version 1511, build 10586Outlook 2010 and KB3114409
After installing KB3114409, Outlook 2010 started only in safe mode, even when told not to do so. Removing KB3114409 solved the problem. QA at Microsoft keeps lagging behind. A few weeks ago, HTML email made Outlook 2013 crash due to “improved” font handling, courtesy of KB3097877. Others were unlucky and couldn’t login until KB3097877 was […]
Read More → Outlook 2010 and KB3114409Bad KBs
Microsoft continues their sneaky trend by camouflaging Windows 10 related updates as “Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems”. I would avoid installing these six (five actually) updates, identified by their KB numbers: KB2952664, Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7 KB3022345, Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry (superseded by KB3068708, see below) KB3035583, Update […]
Read More → Bad KBsAppraiser or Hellraiser? KB2952644
I declined KB2952664 in our WSUS instance. This update phones home and reports whatever you have installed. I see no reason to be spied upon. Not to mention that this update is not a oneshot update, it creates a couple of scheduled tasks that run regularly. This one is related to KB3035583, and both should […]
Read More → Appraiser or Hellraiser? KB2952644KB3035583
Microsoft is pretty sneaky. They camouflage their Windows 10 downloader, KB3035583, as a recommended Windows 7 update with no indication of what good this update does. Only by clicking on the first link is its true intention revealed. As a contrast, the dreaded KB976002 browser choice update was well marked with its intention even in […]
Read More → KB3035583Microsoft’s support on the fringe lately?
Have you tried reading a Microsoft Knowledgebase article lately? It appears that every link like http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3023215 results in nothing.
Read More → Microsoft’s support on the fringe lately?Dell Latitude E7240 and Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 fails to notify Windows 7 when the SSID changes. The result is that the wireless interface retains the previous and possibly invalid IP addresses and other settings. The latest driver, A11, only a few days old, isn’t helpful at all. I usually avoid installing Intel’s own utility for managing wireless […]
Read More → Dell Latitude E7240 and Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260UEFI, GPT, Windows 10, FreeBSD 10, and rEFInd
Over the last few days have I experimented with UEFI and GPT in VirtualBox 4.3.26. The goal was to multiboot various operating system, in this case Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview 9926 x64 and FreeBSD/amd64 stable/10. First, I thought of persuading the UEFI firmware to always present its boot menu. It sure beats remembering to […]
Read More → UEFI, GPT, Windows 10, FreeBSD 10, and rEFIndExploiting Utilman.exe to recover Windows passwords
Sometimes you must do bad things to regain control of Windows. Yes, I know there are simpler ways, but this laundry list does work.
Read More → Exploiting Utilman.exe to recover Windows passwords