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Hot off the presses: Fix for the Excel issue is now out:

March 28, 2017, update for Excel 2010 (KB3191855)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3191855/march-28-2017-update-for-excel-2010-kb3191855

“Fixes an issue that causes Excel 2010 to crash when spreadsheets are
recalculated. This issue occurs after you install MS17-014:
Description of the security update for Excel 2010: March 14, 2017
(KB3178690).”

I had a client report that Outlook 2016 instant search functionality
stopped working last week after she rebooted her computer. Turns out
it’s a known bug in the most recent build that can be resolved by
reverting to the previous build.
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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_
win10/2016-outlook-search-no-longer-working/ef385e06-9f71-4fcd-b4b6-e3b8
ecd766b1
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1. Open a command prompt and run the following commands in order:
cd %programfiles%Common FilesMicrosoft SharedClickToRun
officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.7571.2109
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2. Open Outlook and click File, Office Account and set Update Options to
Disable Updates
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3. Add an appointment on your calendar for a month or more out to remind
you to re-enable updates.

Patch Watch column updates:

Patch Tuesday known issues:

Excel file issue https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3178690/ms17-014-description-of-the-security-update-for-excel-2010-march-14-20

After you install this security update, Excel 2010 may crash or hang (stop responding or freeze) when calculations are performed in a workbook. The calculations may be triggered either by code or by user interaction.

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post more information in this article when the information becomes available.

CRM 2011 impacted by IE/Windows 10 updates:

http://www.windows10newscenter.com/confirmed-windows-10-update-kb-4013429-breaks-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011/

KB 4013429 – this month’s Win10 1607 accumulative refurbish that brings a build series adult to 14393.953
KB 4012215 – this month’s Monthly Rollup (“Security Monthly Quality Rollup”) for Win7 and Server 2008 R2
KB 4012216 – this month’s Monthly Rollup for Win 8.1 and Server 2012 R2

Windows 10 Release of 3/14 KB4013429: Fixed with KB4015438

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4015438

Addressed a known issue with KB4013429 that caused Windows DVD Player (and 3rd party apps that use Microsoft MPEG-2 handling libraries) to crash.
Addressed a known issue with KB4013429, that some customers using Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 1607 Client with Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) enabled might experience a deadlock or when changing the physical adapter’s link speed property. This issue is most commonly seen as a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION or when verifier is enabled a VRF_STACKPTR_ERROR is seen in the Memory dump.

Apologies, that should have said install.

Crysta, Your post is intrigues me. Which script would I download for Win 7 and then Win 10? How would I use the script? What mistakes should a first time user be wary of?

Thanks. :confused:

You don’t have to do that script for 7, only for 10. The only reason to use the script is if there is an update you want to temporarily avoid.

Honestly, Susan, for the life of me (literally, as I”m a dying dinosaur!), I cannot see how you can continue to recommend upgrading from Win 8.1 to Win 10 what with the ever-increasing loss of personal control over such critical elements as updates and, now, default associations.

I have two systems, one Win 7, the other Win 8.1, painstakingly “tricked out” to almost “read my (somewhat fading) mind”. Your update advisories have kept me from many a disaster and waste of my precious (old age) time. If I ever “upgrade” (hah!) at all, it will be on the secondary laptop running Win 7 and only after a full image backup has been salted away in the likely event the process puts me in the hospital and upon waking from the MS-induced coma my only (last) desire is to return to the world of my “childhood”.

Am I getting my message across?? :cheers:

Because quite honestly I see 8.1 as not going to get the love that 10 and 7 will get. Most people who love 8.1 honestly have classic menu installed.

My computer was updated with 1511 at 3AM while I was asleep, so I had no choice about the update. The next time I used my computer ALL the defaults had been changed and several of the Apps were gone along with Office 365 and my network connection. It took me 3 days to get my machine working again the way I like it set up. I still had the CD for Office 2010 so I was able to install it on my number 1 computer. My number 2 computer (Win 10) was similarly disabled. My older Win 7 computers still work OK and they work fine with the network.
Has anyone else had similar problems. Does anyone have advice on how to get the Win 10 machines to work with the network again?

In the build to build update do NOT use express settings. All of your defaults will indeed be reset

As a WS reader since 2010 and contributor/member since 2011, I have come to depend on Susan Bradley’s recommendations for updates. Since the roll-out of win 10 and particularly the roll-out of the new WS format (two a week), I feel that Susan has, for the most part, abandoned Win 7 update recommendations. I now sit with 107 “Important and Optional” available updates from Microsoft, but no warm and fuzzy advice from Susan as to which are safe or recommended. Am I missing something? Can this information be found elsewhere? What’s a Win 7 holdout to do? Thanks…..

I haven’t abandoned Windows 7 at all. I noted the updates for Windows 7 in this special patch watch. But I would be remiss if I didn’t call out the fix for a big fat hairy CIFS/SMB bug that has been not fixed for too long — AND – Microsoft released the update a week before Patch Tuesday.

If you have 107 important and optional updates for Windows 7 can you post them because I’m sure I have listed every one of them along the way but they often are in the text of the articles and not called out in the bottom grid.

Honey, I have spent way way tooooooo many nights up until 2 am writing the PW columns to have missed 107 updates (and have the undereye bags the next day to prove it)

P.S. will do an article on Windows 10 enterprise.

Dear Ms. Bradley, thank you VERY much for your excellent articles, especially “Patch Watch.” Regarding blocking Windows 10, I take it that making the registry edits you suggested are entirely sufficient for blocking the automatic upgrade to Win 10 even if Windows Update settings are set for automatically downloading and installing them? I would like to use this method for those conputers of others whom I maintain, if this is the case. Do you know if using GWX Control Panel is identical to making these reg edits, and would also block the Win 10 upgrade even if Windows Updates settings were set to fully automatic? Thank you also for your petition to Microsoft, and also, would you please write an article in the Windows Secrets newsletter about Win 10 Enterprise and if that can be locked-down and made fully private, and also precisely how best to purchase Win 10 Enterprise. Thank you!

I’m old school and crusty and thus go with the registry. But yes using the GWX control panel will do the same thing. For those systems that don’t have the registry keys you need to ADD these values. In this case, it’s easier to use the GWX control panel program to block the Windows 10. http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html go there for more info.

Cumulative update for Windows 10: August 14, 2015:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3081438

And another Windows 10 release

Apparently your windows 8.1 computer is not connected to a domain account. I have a Windows Essentials 2012 R2 server at home, and have 3 computers connected to it under its domain. The upgrade to Windows 10 is *not* automatically available to any of my computers. It would be helpful if you mentioned something about the upgrade path available to domain account users other than to tell them to contact their administrator – the Microsoft approach. I am the administrator and need some advice without having to rely on google searches and wading through all the garbage out there. Just sayin’

Use the ISO download tool to pull down the Windows 10 then use that to install it.

When I or anyone else uses a computer we just prefer to use it. We do not need anything so complicated as what Susan Bradley indicates. Instead of listing endless links to subject everything to she should just give instructions to install Malwarebytes Antimalware Premium. This small program is head and shoulders above anything and everything in the article, and once installed you never need to worry again.

But antivirus is always reactionary and doesn’t flag everything. What if you get a file that you aren’t sure about and Malwarebytes doesn’t flag it. Now what? The point is use these sites to scan the file whenever you get something you aren’t quite sure about. Chances are SOME antivirus vendor – just maybe not YOUR antivirus vendor will flag it.

You can’t just rely on malwarebytes. I still worry, I still see files it misses.

Susan,
I read the newsletter faithfully.
but I look at my family, friends, and we tech savvy people might as well throw our hands up in the air.
MOST users have NO CLUE of what to do with such information as you provided.
I can’t even get my wife to NOT OVERLOAD DROPBOX and to NOT DuPLICATE the media files she shares with our daughter and son (rather than upload it once and share a link)

This is not a criticism of your column.
There HAS to be some way that software with better interfaces and directions gets created, to PROTECT the majority of users, AND THUS to also protect us (so the majority of users don’t allow BOTS, MALWARE, etc, to infect their system and thus OURS)

my 80 year old aunt still sends the FORWARDS of the pretty cards, images, etc, that she found, with NO CLUE to not forward such stuff, etc,

ANYWAY, that is my two cents, from a frustrated family advisor

nick

Anytime you get a file or link you are worried about send it to virustotal.com. See if at least ONE antivirus vendor has flagged it.

Hi Ken Kashmarek,

lol 😀

W 8.1.3 Pro indicates the 3rd Massive ROLLUP and then later ISO Microsoft released for W 8.1. Even if they won’t track these things I do!

I have seen both 10130 and 100130 Build numbers for the same build. I believe that 10130 is the official number and that others are trying to say 10.0.130 with the other convention. Now I get them confused if I am in a hurry.

Sorry for the Confusion,

Crysta

8.1 = RTM
8.1 second release = April KB2919355 release
8.1 third release = August update rollup
8.1 fourth release = November update rollup

I’m not sure what Microsoft calls them, but that’s my understanding of what they consider the rollups release schedule was.