Microsoft Office 2010 Portable Activated - FL Part1
James Talbot
I now have disabled both web and application filtering (set to none) and the problem still persists. Looks like the client is still asuming the connection is active and that push notifications are not send to the client.
Allthough i agree this could be a problem within outlook and/or office 365, i want to stress that I see this behaviour/problem on 2 seperate clients, with 2 seperate domains and online tenants. Only similarity is the presence of a sophos firewall. an XG115 and an XG210. Both on latest firmware.
I've now put an XG Home in my testlab and am experiencing the same problem. outlook to o365 issue. Push notifications are not comming in. therefor i need to restart my outlook to make te latest mails come in. So this is the 3 location with different OS, office version that has the same issue behind an up to date XG firewall.
Thats the list i am aware of. Unfortunately importing them is a long & tedious process especially with 30 + XG's out there. If you have any best practice or a guide on how to import this via SFM & API it would be much appreciated.
- The problem is not resolved using theses exceptions (yet?)
- XG115 cant handle a list longer then 120 lines in the web exceptions. not sure if it also applies to the scan engine, but the admin interface does not allow to add more than 120.
- office updates and installations do not work persistent
So, you paste the complete list you have at the spot of the ....
Then you start to do a string replace in the editor. for example:
- replace all '^([A-Za-z0-9.-]' by '^([A-Za-z0-9.-]' (without the quotes)
- replace all '/' by '/' (without the quotes, carefull with this one, do it step by step as there are long url's in the list that should not be altered)
Office 365 part 3
Allow O365 communication part 3
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^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?ssdesktopbuild\.blob\.core\.windows\.net/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?s-0001\.s-msedge\.net/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?s-0002\.s-msedge\.net/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?scsquery-ss-us\.trafficmanager\.net/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?scsquery-ss-eu\.trafficmanager\.net/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?scsquery-ss-asia\.trafficmanager\.net/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?giphy\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?latest-swx\.cdn\.skype\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?a\.config\.skype\.comb\.config\.skype\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?testconnectivity\.microsoft\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?client\.hip\.live\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?wu\.client\.hip\.live\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?support\.microsoft\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?activation\.sls\.microsoft\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?65\.52\.98\.231:443/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?crl\.microsoft\.com/x>pki/>crl/>products/ex>MicrosoftProductSecureServer.crl
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?157\.55:443/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?crl\.microsoft\.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftRootAuthority.crl
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?157\.55\.160\.109:443/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?crl\.microsoft\.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftProductSecureCommunicationsPCA.crl
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?157\.55\.192\.81/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?www\.microsoft\.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftProductSecureCommunicationsPCA.crl
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?168\.62/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?ols\.officeapps\.live\.com/olsc
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?officecdn\.microsoft\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?go\.microsoft\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?office15client\.microsoft\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?sls\.microsoft\.com/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?52\.230\.10\.183/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?52\.109\.124\.24/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?13\.107\.21\.200/
^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?207\.46\.194\.14/
[German]On January 14, 2020 Windows 7 SP1 reaches End of Life. Business customers can order Windows 7 SP1 Extended Security Updates (ESU). In this blog post, I'll show in detail what customers from small and medium businesses (SMB) need to know to purchase and manage a Windows 7 SP1 Extended Security Updates (ESU) license.
On January 14, 2020, Windows 7 SP1 will reach the long announced end of support. After next January 2020 patchday, Windows 7 SP1 machines will no longer receive free security updates. Enterprise corporate customers have the option of purchasing an ESU license for Windows 7 SP1 to receive updates in 2020 (and, if mandatory, to renew it until January 2023).
Microsoft has announced an Extended Security Updates support as a separate program for corporate customers (see Wow! Windows 7 get extended support until January 2023). But especially the group of small and medium sized businesses (SMB), which should be able to order these ESU licenses (see Microsoft offers Windows 7 Extended Update Support to SMBs) have to overcome some.
I had assumed that Microsoft would make it easy for small and medium business customers, i.e. individual users, freelancers or small companies, to book the so-called ESU program from December 1, 2019 onward and thus receive security updates for Windows 7 SP1 for 2020. My attempts to get the details proved to be extremely difficult, as Microsoft organizes the distribution through partners from the so-called Cloud Solution Provider Program (CSP).
But in November/December 2019 I failed first, to find a CSP partner who is able to sell an ESU license. Only after longer efforts I managed to establish an European source for the purchase of ESU licenses with the provider Software Express. I have blogged about the details in the blog post Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, price and source for SMEs.
Another hurdle: In order to receive Extended Security Updates (ESU), an ESU license key must be activated on the Windows 7 SP1 machine. My naive idea was: 'Just buy an ESU package for a machine for 2020 and get the required ESU key by mail' was not correct. The activation and management of the keys must be done via the so-called Microsoft CSP-Tenant (an online account for the cloud, the Microsoft 365 Admin Center) of the respective end customer.
Not all SMBs will have a user account to access the Microsoft CSP Tenant via the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. So the question is: How do you get access to something like that? After discussions with Software-Express they have not only set up the order page linked above. There is (since shortly before Christmas 2019) also the German language website Windows 7 ESU Schritt fr Schritt (Windows 7 ESU step by step) with a recipe for the purchase of ESU keys online. Below I will outline the necessary steps in English. According to that article, customers may use the following Microsoft accounts for managing the ESU-Keys as a Microsoft Tenant.
I have access to a Visual Studio subscription and are able, to set up Azure services (e.g. virtual machines) for test purposes. But it was not possible for vendor Software-Express to assign the ESU license to this account (why is still unclear). I then used the suggestion of Software-Express to set up a 30-day trial subscription for Microsoft Office 365. They wrote about this:
If you are not yet using [any] Microsoft Cloud product today, you will need to create an account first. The easiest way to create this account is with an Office 365 trial subscription. There are no costs involved, even after the trial period has expired. In the meantime, we have added the Windows 7 ESU to the account. So it remains.
When setting up this test account, a user ID in the form of an e-mail address of the type al...@name.onmicrosoft.com was then assigned, where alias and name are used as placeholders for the information selected by the user. The CSP needs this user ID to assign the ESU key to the CSP tenant. And the customer needs this user ID in order to log in later to his Microsoft 365 Admin Center and retrieve the ESU key.
In the next step, select the Rubik Software in the right part and you should see the entry 'Windows 7 Extended Security Updates 2020'. If you click on the entry, the ESU license keys will be displayed.
What a mess Microsoft is doing there with their customes. A small service provider wrote to me 'everything is no problem, the CSP-tenant can be created in 5 minutes'. But without the support of the people from Software-Express I would have been lost in searching this options. It's like Ed Bott stated: 'They offer ESU, but they won't your money'.
For all SMB users who do not have an account for Microsoft 365/Azure or who are not familiar with or do not want to struggle with that mess, my recommendation is to let a CSP partner have to handle the administration and activation of ESU keys. German provider Software-Express offers this service on this page for 19.50 Euro (net). Only after the account for the Microsoft CSP tenant has been created, a customer may order Windows 7 ESU (for 61.53 euro (net) at German vendor Software Express). In the next part of this article series I will show how to prepare Windows 7 SP1 for ESU and how to activate the ESU key.
A quick tour into the Microsoft community highlighted how droves of people are grappling with the problem of how to unlock a selection in Word versions. Well, this may sound a small issue if you are an expert, but plenty of users are still in the dark regarding how to unlock selection in Microsoft Word.
There are scores of Microsoft Word users who are stuck because they cannot apply changes to their documents. Whether it is Word 2007, 2010, 2013, or the latest versions, this problem is not new. When you try to apply various changes to your Word document and instead receive a notification at the bottom that reads, "This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked" then know you are experiencing a selection locked problem. This problem is not caused by a single issue but arises because of several reasons.
It could be that your Word document is restricted, or your word document is marked as final. Other causes that are related to the software itself is when you are using a trial version of Microsoft Office, or your version requires to be activated.
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