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Microsoft is introducing a new XPS based printing system to eliminate print drivers and the associated vulnerabilities. Since the early days of Windows, Microsoft have allowed the easy silent distribution and installation of print drivers written by printer hardware manufacturers and others. To do this very powerful system level permissions are inherently granted to the …

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Only first job prints to eVo virtual printer from AS400\iSeries\UNIX, further print jobs held in host system print queue after installation of MS Update KB5040437 (server 2022), KB5040430 (server 2016) 2024-07 Cumulative Update for Microsoft server operating system, version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5040437) and equivalent updates for other Windows OS versions Print problems from …

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High Volume Email for Microsoft 365 As we have reported many times Microsoft do not allow\want the sending of high volumes of emails through a standard O365 user account, making it difficult sometimes with back office systems such as Formate eVo. To be fair Microsoft have offered authenticated SMTP as a step forward, but whilst …

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New Patch Release – Please see release notes in Dashboard Update Utility Headlines: Updated MS and Google Libraries for oAuth2 Email connections Reviewer Improvements with large record collections

Microsoft have announced the final removal of basic authentication to access MS SharePoint Library’s and sites. Microsoft have announced the final removal of basic authentication to access MS SharePoint Library’s and sites. It appears this will affect MS SharePoint provided as part of O365 first, with legacy SharePoint sites being granted a stay until 2026. …

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New Patch Release – Please see release notes in Dashboard Update Utility Headlines: New: Ability to exclude a font when extracting text from a PDF. Behaviour Change: Tidy up of XML field names when displayed in Layout Text item, text properties Memory Optimisation.