I am a physics teacher who has used power point for over 25 years. This year our school district decided to not renew their contract with Office Desktop, the tech guys said that we should be able continue with Microsoft Online with no problems. Unfortunately every textbox which featured an equation has been transformed into an image. I don't even know how to proceed at this point. I can't even purchase my own copy of Microsoft since I present through a school computer and it requires an school license.

Update: Tried Canva, LibreOffice, and Google slides (previously) to the same effect. All of the pages with equations were converted to images or worse.

At this point I will probably be using a personal computer so I can purchase my own license and disconnect the VGA from the school desktop.

Onedrive in macOS stopped working and throws out a message after updating. I cannot do any work from my Macbook. Lols

With multiple people editing files in Word, shared drives, and cloud platforms, it can get confusing pretty quickly.

What tools or processes have worked best for avoiding duplicate files and tracking the latest version?

Hi Brains Trust.

I have a theory for how to do this but wanted to see if anyone has done it before.

Essentially, we have a vendor who wants to be able to add users to Entra groups. This is the ITSM provider. So, if a user logs a job to access a specific item of software, and that software is controlled by an Entra group, the provider just adds them to the group instead of going to someone to add them.

Obviously, I'm not about to give them an App Registration with groups.readwrite.all, so I'm testing this out:

• App registration with no api, redirecting to OAuth.

• Logic App with OAuth setup, limited to above App Registration

• Logic App using the "Office 365 Groups" step of "Add member to group"

• Service account signed into this Connection, providing access to Entra

• Service account having Groups admin but scoped to a specific Admin Unit.

• putting allowed groups into the Admin unit.

Now, the external provider should be able to send a http request to get the JWT, then POST to start the logic app, and be limited to the groups it can edit by virtue of delegated permissions of the service account.

Has anyone done anything similar to this in the past? can anyone see any flaws or weaknesses with this method?

That’s what makes the Storm-2949 attack campaign so dangerous. A single compromised Microsoft 365 account was enough to open the door for wider access across the organization.  

Instead of relying on one technique, the attackers continuously switched between multiple attack methods whenever one path was blocked: 

• Password attacks 
• MFA manipulation 
• Token abuse 
• Device registration 
• Permission misuse

 

And the alarming part? Most of these activities look completely normal inside Microsoft 365 and Azure environments. 

This is why identity monitoring and visibility matter more than ever for Microsoft 365 admins. 

Let me know what do you think is the hardest part in detecting modern identity-based attacks like Storm-2949? 

Dear community, just a quick question: besides “Track Changes,” is it possible in Microsoft Office/Word to see the original data source of copied text? For example, if I copied something from another Word document, can I somehow see where it originally came from?

Thank you in advance!

Clicking on print does nothing. Toolbar's icon gr(a/e)ys out after pressing it. Have to use Chrome's file menu's print, but that's not a printer friendly format.

Is anyone else having this problem too today? This is in updated Chrome in an updated macOS Sequoia v15.7.7 in an old 13" 2020 Intel MacBook Pro. I tried rebooting, clearing caches, and removing uBlock Origin. None of those helped. Did MS break it? It was fine last week before the weekend.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

friend is an oral surgeon, and I’m getting confused why they have so many Microsoft licenses.

They have 3 Microsoft 365 Apps for business, and 1 Microsoft Standard License.

What beats me is, there is just one front-desk, who handles everything e-mail, drafts the letters on Word, etc. Then the staff will use Excel (just one other staff member other than my friend the surgeon and front desk).

Nobody has their own account, or log-in details. There is just 4 PC’s set up, in various rooms, 1 out of 4 is almost rarely used. The other 2 is usually the surgeon/dentist putting in patient notes, and that is the gist of it.

On occasion, the assistant will send something via Word (as the dental software uses Microsoft Word), but other than that is rarely used.

Is this licensing set up in correct. Should it just be 1 license (business standard), and 1 app license? Or it’s it correct where it needs to be 3 app licenses and 1 business standard? I’m so confused by this?

If I go to any other computer as well (not front desk), outlook is sync’d to the exact e-mail.

My company recently "upgraded" from office 2016 to 365. Now every morning my Excel windows are in the middle of the screen instead of where I positioned them the previous day. Can I prevent them from moving to the center?

hi guys,

when i was still in school we were all connected to a onedrive account with our school emails. we would save all our documents here instead of on the laptops own storage. since leaving school, our school emails no longer exist, and when i try to open any word documents that were saved into that onedrive, it opens a popup for me to log into my school email address. when i try to log in, it says that account is now locked. if i can't log into the onedrive account to see these files, is there any other way i can access them if i can't access the onedrive it's saved to?

I use the Word mobile app to glace at my documents and make tiny edits throughout the day when I'm on the go. But the one feature that allows me to do this easily is being able to open up "headings" and jump between chapters/sections with ease. Can't seem to find the headings at all after this new update...

Did they seriously just remove headings from the word mobile app???

Now I only see an option to switch from mobile version to print version. Wtf??? This makes the app completely unusable. Why are we removing essential features?

>A maintenance update to correct — and enhance — handling of comma-separated values (CSV) for the --operations parameter in the MDM-agnostic, unified, user-friendly macOS script to repair, reset, or remove Microsoft 365 components.

Background

A December 2023 Microsoft 365 Reset (2.0.0b1) via Jamf Pro Self Service post detailed a “quick-and-dirty Jamf Pro Policy hack for testing Microsoft_Office_Reset_2.0.0.pkg” (which still works as advertised today, more than 895 days later).

However, while conducting some internal training, I was pained by how user un-friendly the workflow seemed — even if it did get the job done — which motivated the development of the modern, unified approach that Microsoft-365-Reset.zsh now delivers.

Overview

The Microsoft-365-Reset.zsh script seeks to provide an MDM-agnostic, unified, user-friendly approach to all of Paul’s Office-Reset goodness.

Additionally, one resolution to the nightmare that is the Adobe Acrobat Add-in Removal for Microsoft 365 is also included.

Changes in 1.2.0

This maintenance release focuses on CSV handling for the --operations parameter:

• Constrained the interactive operation picker to only the operations listed in the CSV when --operations / Jamf $5 is provided (addresses #15; thanks, andreilabin!)
• Fixed --operations / Jamf $5 CSV parsing so comma-separated operation IDs are treated as separate selections in silent mode (addresses #16; thanks, meschwartz!)

Twelve of them were pointing to external addresses. Six were sitting on accounts that had been fully disabled during offboarding but the forwarding rules were never cleaned up, so mail to those addresses was still routing out of the tenant the entire time. Most of them turned out to be legitimate rules employees created during remote work and simply forgot about, but the security implication is identical to what an attacker would set up after compromising an account and nobody was monitoring for the pattern at all.

If you have not pulled this report recently, go do it now because this is one of those things that looks completely invisible until you specifically go looking for it.

Hi,

our corp is switching off the onprem exchange servers and wants us to move to the new Outlook. Which is fine, I use it for my own calendar.

But I also work as a PA and am delegate for my boss' calendar. So far, I used Outlook Classic for that since the calendar is more powerful.

One feature I am missing in Outlook New in particular is the ability to adjust Teams meeting options when acting as delegate (i.e. adding myself as co-organizer for meeting recordings etc.)
I know I can do this through the Teams but that means opening another app after scheduling a meeting.

Am I missing something here? Some permission or setting? I already have full delegate access (including private items).

Thank you!

If you manage Microsoft 365 for a company, there’s a good chance you’re paying for licences nobody’s actually using anymore.

I keep seeing the same pattern:
Someone leaves.
Someone changes role.
A mailbox gets converted.
A project ends.

But the licence count somehow never goes down.

A quick audit can uncover a surprising amount of wasted spend, and honestly, most admins are too busy firefighting to notice it.

Here are 5 things worth checking:

1. Inactive users Go to: Microsoft 365 Admin Centre → Reports → Usage → Microsoft 365 Active Users

Set it to 90 days.

If someone has barely touched Exchange, Teams, SharePoint or OneDrive in months, flag the account for review. Don’t instantly remove anything, just investigate.

1. Unassigned licences Billing → Licences

This one’s simple but overlooked all the time.

If you’re paying for licences that aren’t assigned to anyone, you’re literally burning money every month.

1. Users with the wrong licence tier This is usually where the biggest savings are.

I’ve seen plenty of reception staff, warehouse teams, temporary workers and part-time users sitting on full E3/E5 licences when they only need basic email + Teams access.

In many cases, an F1/F3 licence would do the job perfectly.

That difference adds up fast across an organisation.

1. Shared mailboxes Shared mailboxes under 50GB generally don’t need a licence.

Yet I still regularly find full licences assigned to them.

Easy savings.

1. Old guest accounts Azure AD → Users → Filter: Guest

You’ll probably find old vendors, contractors or external collaborators from projects that ended years ago.

Cleaning these up helps with both security and licence hygiene.

Quick example:
10 users on E3 licences in the UK can easily cost around £28/user/month.

If those users only need F1 licences at around £2.70/month, that’s over £3k saved annually from one small review.

Also worth checking:
Microsoft’s built-in Licence Optimisation recommendations in the Admin Centre. It’s not perfect, but it does catch a lot.

This isn’t some massive week-long project either.
You can start spotting waste in under 10 minutes.

And when budgets are tight, being the person who quietly saves the company thousands gets noticed.

We have received an internal requirement for the following two licenses. Could you confirm if it is possible to add them into a single tenant?

• M365 Business Basic – 500 licenses
• Exchange Online Plan 1 – 350 licenses

How is it possible they are using 500 licenses when Microsoft restricts it to 300?

I’ve started at a new org and there’s a user who’s come to me with an issue about her mailbox that my predecessor failed to fix

She had a UPN change 2 years ago when she got married and since then, every so often her mailbox takes ages to load, hanging on the splash screen for multiple minutes, no errors, before loading.

I checked Azure and Exchange, her UPN, email, on prem UPN, and SMTP are all set as expected and the same as other users who do not experience the issue.

We’ve tried New Outlook and OWA, both have the same issue but it’s not reproducable. It occurs every few days

• Internet is ~600mbps in her room so it’s not a connection issue

• Windows and Chrome are up to date

• Mailbox is 20.17% full (19.97%

• Issue persists across devices

• Other sites and apps load within a few seconds as expected

• Cache clear/reinstall doesn’t fix the issue

On the off chance the issue happens when I’m around I can check the console in Chrome but at the moment it’s not a constant issue.

Looking back through old tickets, occasionally it would throw “toomanyobjectsopened” error

And ideas?

What version of Office 365 do I need to purchase to allow more than one user on the same computer to use Office 365? I currently am paying for a Personal Office 365 License and wanted to know the workflow to update my license to more than one user on the same computer.