[ANN] The Entourage Help Blog: "Microsoft releases 'critical' updatesfor Office 2004 and 2008"

[William Smith [MVP]]

MacBU today released three updates to its Office for Mac 2004 and 2008
products, including Entourage Web Services Edition.

Continue reading:
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2010/03/microsoft_releases_updates_for_office_2004_and_2008.html>
or <http://tinyurl.com/ylcju6a>

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bill

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[Roger Schlemmer]

William Smith:

The following paragraph is an answer collected on the internet to a problem
encountered after updating to 12.2.4.
Is this good advice in your opinion for avoiding problems installing
updates?

Open system preferences and click on the security tab. Click on Firewall.
Open the advanced tab. You have to type in your administrator's password. Is
Entourage added to the programs that are protected? If it is, click on the
minus sign and remove Entourage. If it was never added, click on the + sign
and browse for Entourage program which you will find in the Applications
folder inside the Office 2008 folder. Click on Entourage and it gets added
to the programs protected under the firewall. Now, here's the important part
which I learned from trial and error and updating my password gazillion
times. Close the advanced tab in the Firewall tab of Security and lock it.
Close the Security tab in System Preferences. Restart the OS. When rebooted,
open Entourage. You will be queried about adding each account password to
keychain. Click OK for each account. And viola, no more interference.
Incidentally this method avoids repairing permissions and the keychain. And
it works every time, like today after installing 12.2.4.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

The following paragraph is an answer collected on the internet to a problem
encountered after updating to 12.2.4.
Is this good advice in your opinion for avoiding problems installing
updates?

Open system preferences and click on the security tab. Click on Firewall.
Open the advanced tab. You have to type in your administrator's password. Is
Entourage added to the programs that are protected? If it is, click on the
minus sign and remove Entourage. If it was never added, click on the + sign
and browse for Entourage program which you will find in the Applications
folder inside the Office 2008 folder. Click on Entourage and it gets added
to the programs protected under the firewall. Now, here's the important part
which I learned from trial and error and updating my password gazillion
times. Close the advanced tab in the Firewall tab of Security and lock it.
Close the Security tab in System Preferences. Restart the OS. When rebooted,
open Entourage. You will be queried about adding each account password to
keychain. Click OK for each account. And viola, no more interference.
Incidentally this method avoids repairing permissions and the keychain. And
it works every time, like today after installing 12.2.4.

A firewall protects your computer from *incoming* connections -- those
that originate from outside your computer. It really has nothing to do
with installing Office updates since the AutoUpdate application is
already on your computer and is initiating the connection to Microsoft
to download updates.

I've read the above paragraph a couple of times but at no point does it
ever state the end-goal for doing all that work. Without knowing what
this person was trying to accomplish or prevent, I can't really tell you
if it's good advice or not.

Hope this helps!

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bill

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