MS16-088: Security update for Microsoft Office: July 12, 2016

Nonsecurity-related fixes and improvements that are included in this security update

• Provides a clearer message to the attendees when an attendee of a meeting request proposes a new time for the meeting in Outlook 2013.
  

• Updates SharePoint to reflect recent changes to the Cairo time zone.
  

• This update includes some updates for the Get & Transform features. For more information, see KB3115185.
  

• This update includes some new and improved data connectivity and transformation features. For more information, see KB3115250.
  

• Adds the ability for non-Outlook MAPI applications to use the Autodiscover service to receive connection settings during IMAPISession::OpenMsgStore, when the target is an Exchange mailbox.
  

• Enables Web Add-ins to retrieve the EWS URL and the callback token from a compose item.
  

• Add new CSOM APIs for getting term set names of all languages, and for getting and setting group managers and contributors.
  

• Contains fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:
  

  • Excel cells that are pasted as OLE links disappear in an email message in compose mode.
    

  • When you click the Meeting button to create a meeting request for a contact in the Contacts hub in Outlook 2013, the "Unknown Error" error message is displayed.
    

  • Assume that you open a calendar in a new window in Outlook 2013. When you open another calendar in the new window, the calendar can't be updated to display the information.
    

  • Assume that you create a recurring meeting by using a time zone that's different from the local time zone. Then, you open one of the occurrences and create an exceptional occurrence by using a different start time. You can't find the exception by running Outlook Object Model scripts.
    

  • When you use the Task Peek function in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2013 crashes.
    

  • If a SharePoint Server 2013 workflow uses the Send an email action to send an email message, the images in the rich text field of the email message aren't displayed.
    

  • Assume you start a workflow and try to assign the workflow to a user. When you search for a user by using the display name in the people picker control, you receive the "no exact match" error message that's expected to force confirmation of the match, but the returned entity is invalid.
    

  • When you expand or collapse a summary task that contains many subtasks, you receive the following error message:
    

    unable to get property 'callbacks' of undefined or null reference.

  • When you drag-and-drop a file in which the file name has special characters to a document library, the status keeps spinning and the status is never updated.
    

  • The preview view of a custom list doesn't display user fields correctly.
    

  • Screen readers can't detect the state of ribbon toggle buttons.
    

  • If a user posts a large picture on community discussion board and it exceeds the post body width, the large picture is truncated and the user can't see the Reply button.
    

  • Screen readers read the attachment icon in a custom list as "Attach16" instead of "Attachments."
    

  • You can't use a site template that has an empty folder to create sites.
    

  • When you reconvert Japanese characters in a text box in Word 2013, CPU usage goes to 100 percent.
    

  • When you save a document as a .pdf file in Word 2013, invisible table and text is displayed in the .pdf file.
    

  • If you open two documents that have the same macro name but different VBProject names in Word 2013, the MacroButton field stops working.
    

  • Images in email messages aren't scaled correctly in Outlook 2013 if you use high DPI monitors.
    

  • For Office Add-in APIs, if a table's cell vertical alignment is changed, the table is no longer considered as uniform, and some table binding APIs do not work. This update fixes this issue, and table cells' vertical alignment will no longer affect a table's uniformness.
    

  • Excel cells that are pasted as OLE links disappear in an email message in compose mode.
    

  • Custom fonts can't be applied for PowerPoint Web App and Excel Web App.
    

  • When you save a document as a .pdf file in Word 2013, invisible tables and text are displayed in the .pdf file.
    

  • When you print preview a worksheet from the Page Layout view in Excel 2013, Excel 2013 may freeze.
    

  • Performance is slow when you use the Sheet.Select method repeatedly on the same sheet in VBA macro.
    

  • Performance is slow when you select a same worksheet repeatedly in VBA macro.
    

  • When you open an XLAM file from OneDrive without an active workbook in Excel 2016, Excel 2016 may crash.
    

  • Outlook 2016 may crash when it synchronizes date with Exchange server in the background.
    

  • You can't use the Office Customization Tool (OCT) tool to automate the configuration of Outlook 2016 profiles to include .pst files.
    

  • Attachments in the body of a task are rearranged when you assign it to another user.
    

  • Fixes a crash that is caused by clicking a Web Add-in ExecuteFunction button on the ribbon while the body of an email is still loading.
    

  • When you forward Digital Rights Management (DRM)–protected email messages in Outlook 2016, Outlook 2016 always forwards the email messages as attachments instead of honoring the user's preferred format for the forwarded email message.
    

  • When you use Microsoft Active Accessibility to automate Outlook 2016, Outlook 2016 crashes.
    

  • Images in email messages aren't scaled correctly in Outlook 2016 if you use high DPI monitors.
    

  • Some symbol characters are displayed small in Windows 7 that has Japanese language installed. This update deletes GeoShape characters (0x25A0-0x25FF) from the extended symbol list.
    

  • When you switch to the Scheduling tab of an appointment in Outlook 2016 that has an Outlook Web Add-in running, Outlook 2016 may crash if the Web Add-in calls the item.body.getAsync method.
    

  • Some text that's written in certain scripts may not be formatted correctly.
    

  • When you try to reply or forward an email message that contains a linked image, Outlook 2016 freezes before the image is displayed.
    

  • Excel cells that are pasted as OLE links disappear in an email message in compose mode.
    

  • If an Outlook Web Add-in calls the item.body.getAsync method in some email messages, an incorrect value is returned.
    

  • For Office Add-in APIs, if a table's cell vertical alignment is changed, the table is no longer considered as uniform and some table binding APIs do not work. This update fixes this issue, and table cells' vertical alignment will no longer affect a table's uniformness.
    

  • When you reconvert Japanese characters in a text box in Word 2016, CPU usage goes to 100 percent.
    

  • When you try to reply or forward an email message that contains a linked image, Outlook 2016 freezes before the image is displayed.
    

  • The setCustomFieldValue method can't set a custom field through Java scripts.
    

  • Changes in resource properties aren't propagated to OData until a Reporting Refresh job is started.
    

  • If trusted authentication is enabled in a web application, email workflow activity doesn't send an email message if the recipients are set with a plain string email message.
    

  • The planned work is incorrect on the Approval page.
    

  • When you reduce the work of a fixed work task while editing in Project in the Schedule Web Part, the duration of the task may be reduced unexpectedly.
    

  • If you have an enterprise custom field that has a formula that references a custom field with a lookup table, the value may not be set correctly.
    

  • When you try to create a farm, you receive the following error message:
    

    The RPC server is unavailable.

    
    

  • If the Validate the application database server (recommended) option is enabled, the Access Services setup in the SharePoint Server 2016 Central Admin fails.
    

  • Assume that you are in edit mode of a project with an unassigned task. When you switch from a task view to an assignment view that has a task ID, the view is stuck in loading and you have to refresh the page to get it to work again.
    

  • You can't delete the orphaned terms in the orphaned term set.
    

  • You can't load timesheet if the ASSN_RESPONSE_PENDING field is set to NULL for one of the assignments.
    

  • When you use non-English characters to search for some terms, unreadable characters are displayed, and some search results are missing from the search results page that uses the managed navigation feature.
    

  • You experience errors when you delete a reused term and reuse it again in the same position through object model.
    

  • After you upload a document and it overwrites a published version in SharePoint, the document can't be read if the upload involves multiple client and server round-trips.
    

  • When you change the start date and a multiline text custom field on a project detail page, the multiline text custom field can't be saved and updated.
    

  • When you save a project detail page, you receive the CustomFieldRowDoesNotMatchCorrespondingDefinitionInDB error.
    

  • When you change the start date of an assignment through the My Tasks page, or through the Timesheet page in Single Entry mode, the actual work of the assignment may be changed.
    

  • When you try to access a non-existing SharePoint site, the root site is displayed instead of the HTTP 404 error page.
    

  • Excel cells that are pasted as OLE links disappear in an email message in compose mode.