Microsoft has resolved a recognized concern inflicting important delays for Microsoft 365 prospects when saving attachments in Outlook Desktop.
The bug is understood to affect Outlook customers attempting to save lots of an attachment to a community share, in response to a help doc revealed by Redmond when the bug was first acknowledged in July.
Customers encountering this downside see a “Making an attempt to attach” dialog field, resulting in extended loading instances for the “Save As” dialog.
This concern was confirmed to have an effect on Microsoft 365 Apps, significantly within the Present Channel Model 2304 (Construct 16327.20214) and Month-to-month Enterprise Channel Model 2304 (Construct 16327.20324).
Whereas Microsoft now has a repair, it is at the moment rolling out solely to insiders, beginning with constructing 25991.1000.rs_prerelease.231102-1335.
In February, the corporate had beforehand addressed an identical bug affecting Workplace Suite apps, comparable to Phrase, Excel, and PowerPoint. On the time, it confirmed that the issue additionally impacted customers saving electronic mail attachments to a community share.
Redmond additionally supplies a short lived repair for patrons impacted by this bug who aren’t enrolled within the Insider program.
To deal with this recognized concern, customers should revert to an earlier M365 Apps construct and disable the WebClient Home windows service from beginning at login.
This may be achieved by going via the next steps:
- Rollback the M365 Apps for a earlier construct: The way to revert to an earlier model of Workplace.
- Set the WebClient service Startup sort to Disabled via Home windows Providers:
- Open companies.msc from Run (Win+R).
- Discover the WebClient service and open its properties.
- Cease the service and alter the Startup sort to Disabled.
In July, Microsoft supplied a workaround for one more bug that blocked Outlook Desktop customers from opening hyperlinks with IP addresses or absolutely certified domains (FQDN) after putting in the July 2023 safety updates.
Nevertheless, the corporate warned prospects that making use of the hyperlink non permanent repair may enhance the assault floor on affected techniques, doubtlessly exposing customers and their knowledge to assaults.
One month earlier, Redmond additionally shared an interim resolution for a problem inflicting sluggish begins and app freezes for Outlook for Microsoft 365 prospects.