SP2 Office 2004 Update

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I foolishly updated my Entourage with SP2 and it went crazy. The window was
blinking like mad and I had constant trouble shutting it down. Fortunately,
I had a back-up via Super-Duper of my entire system, so I just wiped my hard
drive and copied my back-up! I don¹t think I¹ll ever let Microsoft
automatically install an ³update² for any of their products again. I was
shocked to see that others on this forum have also reported problems. If
you haven¹t updated yet, please don¹t unless you have a bootable back-up
handy.

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matt
Sun Sep 25 15:43:33 CDT 2005

Sandy <sandy@sandyp.com> wrote:

> I foolishly updated my Entourage with SP2 and it went crazy. The window was
> blinking like mad and I had constant trouble shutting it down. Fortunately,
> I had a back-up via Super-Duper of my entire system, so I just wiped my hard
> drive and copied my back-up! I don't think I'll ever let Microsoft
> automatically install an "update" for any of their products again. I was
> shocked to see that others on this forum have also reported problems

Don't forget, though, that some very large percentage of users who have
installed the update have had no problems at all. m.

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fellmeister
Sun Sep 25 18:17:34 CDT 2005

I too have had issues with SP2 tonight.

Upgraded a system at work where machine is running Tiger and all went
well. Largely used with Exchange and after a re-boot and a bit of
scanning by Office 2004 the upgrade seemed complete and all has worked
OK. (one niggle is sometimes get beachball of death for a few seconds
at random - never used to happen).

At home different story. Updated a shared installation with a number of
family users both small number of emails in account. My Account (admin)
updated Ok but there is no email in it as I dont use it much). However
two other accounts when you run entourage it just spins the beachball
and continues doing so for ages . No sign of email window popping up.
Had to force quit a number of times to stop it. Each time though
entourage just spins the ball and does nothing?

ANy help?

SImon

Rebecca
Sun Sep 25 19:56:53 CDT 2005

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On 9/25/05 4:17 PM, in article
1127690254.240033.33150@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "fellmeister"
<fellmeister@gmail.com> wrote:

> I too have had issues with SP2 tonight.
>
> Upgraded a system at work where machine is running Tiger and all went
> well. Largely used with Exchange and after a re-boot and a bit of
> scanning by Office 2004 the upgrade seemed complete and all has worked
> OK. (one niggle is sometimes get beachball of death for a few seconds
> at random - never used to happen).
>
> At home different story. Updated a shared installation with a number of
> family users both small number of emails in account. My Account (admin)
> updated Ok but there is no email in it as I dont use it much). However
> two other accounts when you run entourage it just spins the beachball
> and continues doing so for ages . No sign of email window popping up.
> Had to force quit a number of times to stop it. Each time though
> entourage just spins the ball and does nothing?
>
> ANy help?
>
>
> SImon
>

I would suggest disabling Spotlight on the Microsoft User Data folder. It
might be trying to index the database everytime a change is made. Entourage
does not support Spotlight at this time.

Thanks,
Rebecca
Rebecca Harriss
Microsoft Corporation
Macintosh Business Unit, Entourage Test

This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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Upgraded a system at work where machine is running Tiger and all went 
well. Largely used with Exchange and after a re-boot and a bit of 
scanning by Office 2004 the upgrade seemed complete and all has worked 
OK. (one niggle is sometimes get beachball of death for a few seconds 
at random - never used to happen). 
 
At home different story. Updated a shared installation with a number of 
family users both small number of emails in account. My Account (admin) 
updated Ok but there is no email in it as I dont use it much). However 
two other accounts when you run entourage it just spins the beachball 
and continues doing so for ages . No sign of email window popping up. 
Had to force quit a number of times to stop it. Each time though 
entourage just spins the ball and does nothing? 
 
ANy help? 
 
 
SImon 
 
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ta folder. It might be trying to index the database everytime a change is ma=
de. Entourage does not support Spotlight at this time. 
 
Thanks, 
Rebecca 
Rebecca Harriss 
Microsoft Corporation 
Macintosh Business Unit, Entourage Test 
 
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Maestro
Mon Sep 26 00:38:54 CDT 2005

In article <BF5C9565.50FE7%rharriss@online.microsoft.com>, Rebecca
Harriss [MSFT] <rharriss@online.microsoft.com> wrote:

> On 9/25/05 4:17 PM, in article
> 1127690254.240033.33150@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "fellmeister"
> <fellmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I too have had issues with SP2 tonight.
> >
> > Upgraded a system at work where machine is running Tiger and all went
> > well. Largely used with Exchange and after a re-boot and a bit of
> > scanning by Office 2004 the upgrade seemed complete and all has worked
> > OK. (one niggle is sometimes get beachball of death for a few seconds
> > at random - never used to happen).
> >
> > At home different story. Updated a shared installation with a number of
> > family users both small number of emails in account. My Account (admin)
> > updated Ok but there is no email in it as I dont use it much). However
> > two other accounts when you run entourage it just spins the beachball
> > and continues doing so for ages . No sign of email window popping up.
> > Had to force quit a number of times to stop it. Each time though
> > entourage just spins the ball and does nothing?
> >
> > ANy help?
> >
> >
> > SImon
> >
>
> I would suggest disabling Spotlight on the Microsoft User Data folder. It
> might be trying to index the database everytime a change is made. Entourage
> does not support Spotlight at this time.
>
> Thanks,
> Rebecca
> Rebecca Harriss
> Microsoft Corporation
> Macintosh Business Unit, Entourage Test
>
> This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
I've been able to isolate the cause of my problems (lost dots on
projects in the calendar, the insistence of one of my 2 windows to
always open as a contact list instead of a calendar) to a conflict
between SP2 and the latest Apple Security Update. On a non-Security
Updated system, SP2 runs (at least, for me) without problems.

Hopefully Microsoft and Apple will be discussing this!

Jane
Mon Sep 26 09:24:45 CDT 2005

I had the same problem and couldn't use email on a trip. When I got
home I reapplied the update and Entourage worked okay, except it
crashes when I try to print.

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