Questions tagged [microsoft-office]

A productivity suite from Microsoft, for which about every 3 years a new major release becomes available, like in 2003, 2007, 20010, and 2013. It can only be run on Windows computers.

A productivity suite from Microsoft, for which about every 3 years a new major release becomes available, like in 2003, 2007, 20010, and 2013. It can only be run on Windows computers.

MS Office is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. All traditional editions of MS Office contain the core applications:

More advanced editions contain applications such as:

For more details on MS Office, refer to http://products.office.com

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Offline files fail with "Access Denied" but only by MS Office apps

I have a Win10 computer on a domain. It can access all files/folders on a server share fine when online. I have marked a subfolder for offline use on the laptop, and synced. I can browse the offline folder fine when disconnected using file…
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Windows 10 - 1709 upgrade breaks default mail associations

I noticed on a number of our machines since the 1709 upgrade that using the "Share by email" in an office (2013) application or sending a mail using the snipping tool is broken. The error that pops up is general mail failure or soomething along the…
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Microsoft Office Volume License - Where to buy

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I need to buy Microsoft Office for about 10 computers for one of my clients. Can anyone recommend where I can buy volume licenses from? We probably only really need Outlook,…
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Prevent user from saving locally

I have a client requirement to block users from saving Office files (any Office app) locally, they should only be able to save files on the client's SharePoint to prevent data-loss at all costs. I found about Restricted Browsing but this forces me…
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Run a batch file from network shared folder depending on MS outlook bit version

Hello I'm trying to figure out on how to Run a file from network, basically it's located from \10.18.xx.xx\installers\install.bat, so yeah It's gonna prompt a username and password when I locate it manually. What are the codes the I should use in…
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Make Office 2008 run smoothly for network users

Time and time again, we have problems with Office 2008, especially when used by users with network accounts (and usually seen through Word, but then, that is the primary application of the suite our users are using). Over time I've seens and used…
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Office 2016 O365 "Something went wrong we couldn't start your program"

I have used days trying to find out what is causing this. We have a Citrix environment that is now moving over to Office 365. Have installed Office 2016 O365 on many other Citrix environments without much issue. But in this one I'm getting an error…
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Working ADFS webapplication proxy. No SSO from webbroser to MSOFBA

We're implementing an WebApplication Proxy (WAP) on Windows server 2012R2 for our organisation to replace the authenticatin/SSO features of TMG. Currently we have a working WAP with SSO for: - SharePoint 2013 - Outlook - Office 365 - several other…
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KMS activation without DNS

I'm loading a small sized isolated lab with Windows 7 and Office 2013. There are enough hosts to use KMS. In addition the lab does not have DNS as a service available, every host will use a static hosts file. The lab environment will not have access…
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MS Word reports files read-only on Win Server 2003 file server

I'm not a sysadmin, but I play one on TV: I'm trying to fix a problem for my mom's tiny non-profit company's server. I set up a Windows Server 2003 machine as a domain controller and file server. Everything has been working well for a few months,…
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msiexec /p (for patching) - won't update after another change

I have a .msp file that is made by the Office 2007 Customization tool. If I create the .msp file and apply it to a machine it works. But if I modify that machine's office install again and then try and run the .msp file against that computer again…
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Office for Mac hyperlinks that redirect to HTTPS fail to load with "Unable to open. Cannot locate the Internet server or proxy server."

Our users are trying to embed links to our site http://www.newsfixed.com/ in Word documents, and they are failing. Word for Mac seems to be very sensitive to server configuration and sometimes fails to load certain links. The same problem seems to…
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Does Office 365 Exchange Cached Mode Require C drive space equal to entire mailbox size?

Here is the scenario: User (me) has Office 365 Exchange (P plan). User has 10GB of mailbox data. User has desktop, laptop, and Surface Pro. User wants full access to entire Exchange repository on all devices using native Outlook - not web…
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Clonezilla and multiple Activation for Office 2010

We have a large desktop deployment (approximately 2000 PCs) coming and I'm in charge in structuring the best possible manner to have the PCs installed and staged before them out to multiple geographical sites. We have already purchased group license…
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Can Office365 (Enterprise) sync from a remote LDAP server?

I am looking in to the details of a migration to Office365 - primarily for the use of hosted Outlook capability. I see that the Enterprise plans have "Active Directory Sync", but details seem scarce. Is it possible to sync an independent LDAP…
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