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Office 2019 users getting error when opening files in app from sharepoint
Hi, since two days ago, our users who didnt upgrade to office 365 and still use office 2019 are getting an error when trying to sign in from office to their cloud account. The error is: "Your account is in bad state. Please sign-in to this account online to address the issue" Now I know support for cloud connectivity for office 2019 has officially ended in october 10, two days ago, in microsoft website its stated that: "In practical terms, what this means is that older Office versions might not be able to use all the latest functionality and features of Microsoft 365 services... No active measures will be made to block older Office versions from connecting to Microsoft 365 services if they're in extended support and are kept up to date. For example, Office 2019 and Office 2016, both of which are in extended support until October 14, 2025."https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/endofsupport/microsoft-365-services-connectivity So why it looks like Microsoft actively blocked office 2019 connection to cloud?VBA problem - Excel for Mac
Welcome I'm working on a Macbook Pro, macOS, in Arabic. I have a problem with the Visual Basic Editor in Excel, when I type commands, they don't work. When I write it outside the editor and then copy it to the editor page, it works. I contacted support, but they did not help me find a solution to the problem and referred me to the Microsoft Office technical community to solve the problem. Please guide me to the correct and radical solution to the problem, thank you.Support update for InfoPath Forms Services in Microsoft 365
In a recent blog post, it was announced that InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Online will be retired in 2026. Learn more about the end-of-support process and how to prepare for it here: Support update for InfoPath Forms Services in Microsoft 365
Standalone office 2019 and Office 365
Our office is currently using standalone installs of mostly Office 2019 and some Office 2021. I understand the support will end this year for them but will they still work with Exchange online if we go with Microsoft 365 Business Basic subscription? We only have 30 or so users and cannot justify the cost of moving everyone to the next step up. I work for a small government agency and all costs are very scrutinized. I anticipate we could in the next couple years, but not before the October deadline. Will the older office clients get blocked like happened to Office 2013 and 2016?Application Guard for M365 Apps now in public preview
Files from the internet and other potentially unsafe locations can contain viruses, worms, or other kinds of malware that can harm your users’ computer and data. We recently announced that in order to help protect your users, Office can open files from potentially unsafe locations in Application Guard, a secure container that is isolated from the device through hardware-based virtualization. Learn more from this article.New and Improved Product Lifecycle Search
In case you haven't heard, we've recently launched a new and improved Microsoft Lifecycle product search page! With this new page, you can now have a holistic view of the support lifecycle for all your Microsoft products. Search, filter, find relevant support articles for your products, and more. You can find this new page using the link above or at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/Ask Microsoft Anything: Upcoming changes to Office support – September 9, 2020
Join us Wednesday, September 9 for an opportunity to "Ask Microsoft Anything" (AMA) about upcoming changes to support for Office 2016 for Mac, Office 2010, and Office 2013 connectivity to Office 365 services. The AMA will take place from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Time in the https://aka.ms/OfficeEOSAMA. To join, simply visit the Office End of Support AMA space at 9:00 a.m. PDT and submit a question by selecting Start a new conversation—then do this for each new question. More Information On October 13, 2020, Office 2016 for Mac and Office 2010 reach their end of support. After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide technical support, bug fixes, or security updates for either version. Also, as previously https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2017/04/20/office-365-proplus-updates/, after October 13, 2020, customers will need to be using Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, Office 2019, or https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2018/09/06/helping-customers-shift-to-a-modern-desktop/ in order to connect to Office 365 services. Microsoft will not take any active measures to block older versions of the Office client from connecting to Office 365 services, but these legacy clients may encounter performance and/or reliability issues over time. What is an AMA? An AMA is a live, online, text-based question-and-answer event similar to a "YamJam" on Yammer or an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit. Can’t attend at 9:00 AM Pacific Time? While we’ll only be answering questions in real-time from 9:00-10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, you can post your questions for the AMA to the https://aka.ms/OfficeEOSAMA in the Office End of Support Tech Community up to 24 hours in advance.End of Support for Exchange Summary
Just a summary of some of the important things you might want to know about End of Support for all things Exchange. Exchange Server 2010 - We pushed the date for the end of extended support from Jan 2020 to October 2020, and announced that here - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/microsoft-extending-end-of-support-for-exchange-server-2010-to/ba-p/753591 We have no plans to extend that any further, so if you still have Exchange Server 2010 in use - you need to get moving. It won't stop working in October but we won't be releasing any more updates, security or time zone patches. We also recently posted information to help decommission Exchange 2010 once you have removed all the mailboxes and public folders - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/best-practices-when-decommissioning-exchange-2010/ba-p/1247559 Exchange Online and Basic Authentication is another important one to know about. We will be turning off Basic Authentication in Exchange Online in the future. If you hadn't heard about this take a look at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/improving-security-together/ba-p/805892 and that post will provide the background. What's changed most recently is we extended the timeline, and we talked about that here - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/basic-authentication-and-exchange-online-april-2020-update/ba-p/1275508 and we added OAuth 2.0 support to IMAP and SMTP AUTH and talked about that here - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/announcing-oauth-2-0-support-for-imap-and-smtp-auth-protocols-in/ba-p/1330432 Those are the big pieces of news, feel free to ask a question about any of that here, or once we're done, over in the Exchange Community.
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