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April 2014 Office Update Release

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Update: Users may see issues with unresolved file conflicts and merging errors when using SharePoint and/or OneDrive for Business files. The April PU contains important fixes to help resolve these syncing issues and allow your users’ files to resume syncing normally. Please install this latest update as soon as possible.

If you are running Office 2013 Click-to-Run, you can follow these steps to verify that you are on the April 2014 release or later or update if necessary.

If you are running Office 2013 using Microsoft Installer then you can visit Microsoft Update to install the latest Office updates.

If you are unsure which version of Office 2013 that you are running, follow these steps:

1. Open any Office application

2. Click on the File tab

3. Click on Account (Office Account in Outlook)

If you have click-to-run installed then you will see “Office Updates” under “Product Information”.

If you have Office installed with Microsoft Installer then you will see “Product Activation” under “Product Information”.

The April 2014 Public Update release for Office is now live. There are 13 security updates (2 bulletins) and 28 non-security updates.

SECURITY UPDATES

MICROSOFT SECURITY BULLETIN MS14-017

  • Security Update for Microsoft Word 2013 (KB2863910)

  • Security Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 (KB2878219)

  • Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2863907)

  • Security Update for Microsoft Word 2010 (KB2863926)

  • Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2863919)

  • Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2878220)

  • Security Update for Microsoft Web Applications (KB2878221)

  • Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2878236) 

  • Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007 (KB2878237) 

  • Security Update for Word 2003 (KB2878303)

  • Security Update for Word Viewer (KB2878304)

MICROSOFT SECURITY BULLETIN MS14-020

  • Security Update for Publisher 2003 (KB2878299)

  • Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (KB2817565) 

NON-SECURITY UPDATES

To improve general stability and performance in Word:

  • Update for Microsoft Word 2013 (KB2863909)  

To improve general stability and performance in Excel:

  • Update for Microsoft Excel 2013 (KB2752087)

To improve compatibility with YouTube, and general stability and performance in PowerPoint:

  • Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 (KB2837579)

  • Update for Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2010 (KB2837586)

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2760544)  

  • Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 (KB2837627)  

To improve general stability and performance in OneNote:

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2760344)
  • Update for Microsoft OneNote 2013 (KB2817628)  

To improve search functionality, and to improve compatibility with international fonts in Visio:

  • Update for Microsoft Visio 2010 (KB2553444)

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2863843)  

  • Update for Microsoft Visio 2013 (KB2837632)*

*NOTE: Visio 2013 KB https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2837632 has been updated to correct a targeting issue. Prior to April 11 the update incorrectly targeted Visio 2013 and Office 2013. The update has now been corrected and will only target Visio 2013 installs. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

  •  Update for Microsoft Visio Viewer 2013 (KB2817301)  

To improve compatibility with password prompts in SharePoint:

  • Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2863811)

To improve parameter limitations in PerformancePoint services in SharePoint:

  • Update for 2010 Microsoft Business Productivity Servers (KB2553341)

To improve compatibility with the Russian lexicon in SharePoint:

  • Update for 2010 Microsoft Business Productivity Servers (KB2760756)

  • Update for Microsoft Web Applications (KB2687504)

To improve compatibility with ACM server in SharePoint:

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2837623)  

To improve general stability and performance across Office 2013:

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2768012)  

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2817636)  

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2825631)  

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2827272)  

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2863825)  

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2863844)  

  • Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2863860)  

To improve general stability and performance in OneDrive:

  • Update for Microsoft OneDrive for Business (KB2863864)  

And the junk e-mail filters...

  • Definition Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2760587)

  • Definition update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB982726)

  • Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB2878297)

Please note that these updates are all found in their corresponding versions of Office Click-to-Run:

  • Office 2013: 15.0.4605.1003

  • Office 2010: 14.0.7122.5000

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  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2014
    Updates are Now Available:
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