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“People touch our lives if only for a moment, And yet we’re not the same from that moment on, The time is not important, The moment is forever.” – Fern Bork

RIP Woody

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Mike Hall, Microfix, SueW, AJNorth, IreneLinda, satrow, Myst, PKCano

Thank you! I will think about it. And thank you PK for your earlier message! I’m just reallly saddened at how so many dissed my heartfelt comment. So be it I guess.

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Lars220

PK, Feel free to delete this thread, and my account. Thank you.

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/office-click-to-run-updates-may-be-broken-with-latest-version/

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lmacri

@BobStr I certainly understand your frustration and aggravation. In the example I gave above with my client’s issue, he wasn’t using a VPN and actually has a static IP . After the user and pass was entered the site redirected to a cdn. The cdn is what blocked his AT&T IP range. Possibly someone in that range had been abusing resources. Automatic firewall blocking isn’t always perfect.

His bank support was able to login from a different IP so told him it was his problem. I had to create screen shots to prove to them what was happening. They finally bumped it up to a higher level of support who understood what I was stating and was able to take care of it.

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BobStr

What doesn’t make sense to me is why such sites are be designed to stop functioning after someone who has an account has entered his user name and password.

Many times after you login you are redirected to a different server. Had this recently with a client accessing his banking site. Seems the 2nd server blocked his whole ISP’s IP range. After they whitelisted his IP he was back in. BTW he wasn’t using a VPN.

As far as why sites block vpn addresses. If you would view the logs on our website servers you would understand. Idiots and bots!

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BobStr, TechTango

It’s legit. We received them too. Promoting the upcoming requirement for Microsoft’s modern authentication methods.

Well that was a wasted 2 hours of my life. Not just the store. Windows updates borking.

Wasn’t going to reply any longer but as this post developed started to get errors 0x80245006 on some machines. YES MS services are down. BLAH! Maybe they just forgot to renew their domain  again. I’m SO OVER THIS!

My trust in anything MS says is hovering very close to 0%.

I’m done. Said what I had to say.

Basically it means over the last few years I’ve come to believe and trust Apple over MS for security, privacy and dependability. The Windows phone was going to change everything. It FLOPPED. The surface also didn’t do so well after 1/2 of my clients ditched it due to poor updates from MS. Now MS is trying to make their garbage look more like Apple. As you can probably tell, I ain’t no MS fan any longer.

Hmmm, I’m certainly no Apple fanboy but check out the iphone vs Windows phone b

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PKCano

I removed it so as not to create confusion.

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Cybertooth

I should not have gone where?

That was the email I received when a moderator blew away my post from a bit back. Nothing to do with this.

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Cybertooth

Blah. I’ve had enough of MS’s garbage. Cleaning up my system and going to Linux. Too old to deal with the garbage, and that’s what it is!

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