By William Smith | May 9, 2012 Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.3.3 Update. (218 MB) This one update includes the 18 prior updates 12.1.1 through 12.3.2.
According to the update’s description it addresses two new security issues.
The security fixes (MS12-029 and MS12-030) correct remote code execution vulnerability across both Windows and Mac versions of Office, however, Macs are not vulnerable to these attacks according to each knowledge base article.
Users should quit all Office applications and web browsers . . .
Continue Reading: Microsoft releases Office 2008 for Mac 12.3.3 Update
By William Smith | May 8, 2012 Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.2.2 Update. (110 MB) This one update includes the five prior updates 14.1.1 through 14.2.1.
According to the update’s description it addresses two security issues.
The security fixes (MS12-029 and MS12-030) correct remote code execution vulnerability across both Windows and Mac versions of Office, however, Macs are not vulnerable to these attacks according to each knowledge base article.
Users should quit all Office applications and web browsers prior to updating. . . .
Continue Reading: Microsoft releases Office for Mac 2011 14.2.2 Update
By Diane Ross | May 8, 2012 Under File > Export you can select to export all your data as .olm file. This file can be used as backup or to move your data into a new Identity. Do you get “Done” at the end or do you get “one or more items failed to export”? If you do not get “Done”, all your data was not exported.
If you are using the .olm file to create a new identity, I suggest you delete your . . .
Continue Reading: Export as .olm file fails to get all data
By Diane Ross | May 8, 2012 Even though some users had what seemed to be a successful upgrade to the 14.2.1 database, issues in the Identity are causing concern. You can try rebuilding, but if that fails, you need to move to a new Identity. If you do not have any data under “On My Computer” folders: messages, contacts, events, notes and tasks, you can simply start over in a new Identity. Enter your Exchange account and let your data download into . . .
Continue Reading: How to move your data to a new Identity
By Diane Ross | May 7, 2012 When rebuilding, restoring and upgrading fails, you can recover your data. Outlook stores your data in the Data Records folder in your Identity folder.
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/Data Records
If you restore your Identity from Time Machine or another backup and it fails to rebuild, or you upgraded to Service Pack 2 (SP2) 14.2.1 and you have missing data you can restore your data from your old Identity.
Upgrade to Service Pack 2 (SP2) 14.2.1 See this article for details. . . .
Continue Reading: How to recover your data when rebuilding, restoring and upgrading fails
By Diane Ross | May 7, 2012 Microsoft released the Service Pack 2 (SP2) 14.2.1 updater on April 25, 2012. This updater resolves the main issue users where having with the database upgrade in 14.2.0. Skip the 14.2.0 upgrade and go directly to 14.2.1. The 14.2.1 update requires 14.1.0 or later to be installed.
If you are one of those users asking, “Should I upgrade to 14.2.1?”, the answer for most is “Yes!”. This update should fix the main issue of failed database upgrades. Users . . .
Continue Reading: Upgrade to Service Pack 2 (SP2) 14.2.1
By William Smith | May 5, 2012 Microsoft has been able to reproduce an issue affecting volume license customers where the institution’s Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 license goes missing after updating to the Office for Mac 14.2.0 update (SP2) or the Office for Mac 14.2.1 update. This has affected both enterprise and educational institutions.
David Pelton, Release Test Lead for Microsoft’s Macintosh group, posted in both the JAMF Nation and munki forums that this can happen when installing a 14.0.0 or . . .
Continue Reading: Resolve missing volume license when installing Office for Mac 2011
By Diane Ross | April 19, 2012 Work around for command line installs of SP2 for Mac Office 2011
Symptom:
Command line installs of Service Pack 2 for Mac Office 2011 may fail.
Cause:
This is due to a problem with a script that cleans up the temporary folder used during the installation. This issue has been seen with Lion and can also occur on any Mac OS if multiple command line installs are done at the same time.
. . .
Continue Reading: Work around for command line installs of SP2 for Mac Office 2011
By Diane Ross | April 19, 2012 DO NOT DOWNLOAD Service Pack 2 (SP2) 14.2.0. This update contains problems that were fixed in 14.2.1. You can go directly from 14.1.0 or higher to 14.2.1. SKIP the 14.2.0 updater. [Added May 3, 2012]
If you get the following error “Your identity is older than this version of Outlook” you will need to revert to Office 2011 v14.1.4 in order to repair your identity.
If you want to remove Office 2011 v 14.2.0 . . .
Continue Reading: Error: Your identity is older than this version of Outlook
By Diane Ross | April 19, 2012 If you need to revert to a previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac after a bad update, it’s a fairly easy process as long as you have a backup on Time Machine or other backup like a CCC or SuperDuper clone. If you do not have a backup copy of your Microsoft Office 2011 folder, you will need to re-install Office.
Note: Before you revert, you will need to delete the Exchange and IMAP . . .
Continue Reading: How to revert to Microsoft Office for Mac 14.1.4 after upgrading to SP2
|
|
