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A recent investigation was to ascertain why users were not seeing the Office 2016 Click to Run (C2R) splash screen during an install. The install was proceeding and completing successfully, but the users were not being informed of what was happening, so had no idea that Office was updating/installing. From testing, it was discovered that the behaviour changed as of the January 2018 update for Office, and only happened when installing under the system context. Installing with earlier updates e.g. Dec 2017 were successfully displaying the splash screen. Similarly installing in the user context worked. When querying this change in behaviour with Microsoft, I wasRead More →

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Like all Microsoft Office applications, the new Teams app has a spellcheck feature. One issue I have ended up investigating was for problems with spellcheck behaving unexpectedly in MS teams. What was noticed, was that users who had Teams enabled for them noticed that all text they typed in the chat window was being underlined in red. This happened regardless of whether the spelling was incorrect or not. The next odd quirk was that if a user right clicked on one of the underlined words, the Teams application would crash. First thing was to check a few of the basics: Was the issue is presentRead More →

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Recently I had a need to enable MS project for a user in Office 365, this was the first time I had to do this and it proved interesting and I learnt a lot. The end user already had MS Project 2016 installed on their laptop, so it was just a case of enabling Project in O365, or so I thought. I was WRONG! Login to http://portal.office.com and go to Admin section and then check the user account. The user already had O365 E3 license assigned to them, so I enable Project for the user under the additional “Project Online Professional” license. At this pointRead More →