Microsoft Office Support Blog

A s part of Microsoft’s commitment to deliver security updates on a predictable and consistent monthly schedule, Microsoft released six new security bulletins on 12 June 2007 . Here is an overview of these new security bulletins: ...

My name is Pranav Wagh..I work for VSOD (what ? you don't like acronyms? me too.. ), So its "Visual Studio Office Developer Support". The goal of our team is to provide developer technical support and resolve customer issues involving automation, extensibility...

In case you missed this update and you've seen that disabling the clientside WebClient resolved your issue with Sharepoint you might want to take a peek at this! Overview This download enables you to update the Web Folders component in Microsoft...

Are you tired of trying to get the exact error message from the customer? Are you tired of searching for content on generic error messages that don’t have unique key words? Do you ever wonder why you need to document your cases with the error message...

The natural languages group (NLG) is seeking feedback about localized versions of the grammar checkers (GC). These are the grammar checkers that have the grammar rule explanations in a different language then the install language. Going forward...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0d05a69-f67b-4d37-961e-2db3c4065cb9&DisplayLang=en Overview This white paper describes how different versions of Office programs work together with the 2003 and 2007 versions of SharePoint...

What a GREAT VISTA GADGET - created by an internal employee here at Microsoft to help organize files !!! Description: You can drag files to this Gadget and they are moved to a different folder (based on the file extension). You can also customize folder...

If you've called SharePoint support you might have noticed quite a long wait time to get to a support engineer. On a daily basis SharePoint is seeing about 110 new incoming calls everyday with an average hold time of 35 minutes long. However some people...

A new Outlook update is available fixes a problem in which a calendar item that is marked as private is opened if it is found by using the Search Desktop feature. The update also fixes performance issues that occur when you work with items in a large...

This alert is to provide you with an overview of the new Security Bulletin being released on 10 April 2007 . New Security Bulletins Microsoft is releasing the following security bulletins for newly discovered vulnerabilities: ...

It’s that time of year again. The leaves are green and the mowing bans are in place so wildflowers get to have their time with the sun too. It is also a time to think about learning new technologies so that you can do your part in making the world a better...

Now that everything under the sun has a web presence, I'm sure you've stumbled upon links to Feedback Forms on various websites. I bet you've always wondered if they went to an unchecked mailbox and if anything ever came of it. Well I can personally...

For those of you who don’t know me well, yet – I am fascinated by the inner workings of Microsoft Research, and have a deep admiration and connection to our Higher Education folks! Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon Establish Center for Computational Thinking...

I wanted to let you know about an upcoming Support Webcast on April 11, 2007, Best Practices to use when migrating from Microsoft Office 2000 or Office XP or Office 2003 to 2007 Office programs. The KB Article is: 934860 - This Support WebCast session...

Thought you might be interested in the new certifications geared toward the client-side of Business Applications! Susan Introducing: Business Certifications for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Worldwide) The new Microsoft Business Certifications...

I'm sure that's the source of heartburn for IT Administrators all over the country right now. I just got done with some DST training as support engineers (from all product areas related or not) across MSFT are being asked to help with the call volumes...

So many people have stopped me recently to discuss these features. What an amazing search ability, especially in an audio recording. Here's the steps if you want to play along: Record Audio and Video Clips With your computer’s internal microphone or an...

Brian Smith is a Project Server Suppor Engineer in Washington. He has an excellent blog over at http://blogs.msdn.com/brismith/ . Brian started this blog back in October of 2006. Since then he has covered topics such as Project Server SDK, What's new...

If you are still running Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh it will be important that you mark March 31, 2007 and May 15, 2007 on your calendar. On March 31st, the client builds of Office 2007 will expire. Then on May 15th, the server builds will expire...

There are lots of good information on Project Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 available at Microsoft TechNet web site. The following is not meant to be a full list but just a few I found very helpful. Deploy Office Project Server 2007...

Starting in the spring of 2007, daylight saving time (DST) start and end dates for the United States will transition to comply with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. DST dates in the United States will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday...

Lots of our customers have started to deploy Project Server 2007. One of the common questions is how to configure Project Server 2007 to build cube on SQL Server 2005 and Analysis Service environment. It's important to know that information in MS article...

I'm the newest member of the Word/OneNote team. (Hopefully, right now you are not asking "What is Onenote?" I've been at Microsoft 3 years, and what a fast 3 years it has been! The technical breadth and depth of supporting Office products is mind blowing...

It's my first post so I'll try to keep it non-technical. I am a Support Engineer and I've been working for MS as Support Engineer for 9 years. I've supported different products like SQL Server and Exchange previously. Yes. nine years is a life time in...

One of the questions that I've been asked is what products will I see represented in this blog. When we talked about Microsoft Office support, we talk about the entire Office family. That includes, all versions of Office, Excel, Access, Word, Visio...