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Thank you Sceleron for providing the list of Office Update/WSUS Offline updates of what was offered prior to product End Of Life.I do note for others in this thread that it appears that you provided a list for Office 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3; Office 2000 Premium and Office 2000 Developer editions include software that are not available with Office 2000 Professional (such as Microsoft FrontPage 2000). Your list does not include updates for the Office 2000 Premium or Office 2000 Developer ed (nor is it expected that it should) The list is an excellent starting point for users of Office 2000 (especially Premium and Developer editions). Microsoft offer of updates generated by Office Update did not include all available updates. For example, the office updates that were not made available as Windows Installer Patch Files (.MSP files), were not included in the update list. Hotfix updates also would not have been included in the list. For the United States of America/Canada Office users, applying the KB947700 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947700 ) update should be sufficient. There were changes in year 2010 for countries outside of United States and Canada (I forgot what they were), but they are not included with KB947700; KB947700 only has time updates through January 2008.

I have tested the MS10-105 update for Microsoft Office File Converter Pack with Office 2000 Premium installed, and have determined that the "Allow List" behavior as described in the KB2479871 article, does not apply to the MS10-105 update for Microsoft Office File Converter Pack.

The KB2479871 article seems to have been update after my initial reading of it. Now the article is easier to understand. I have tested the "Allow List" functionality. After applying MS10-105 or other newer update update regardless of whether or not they update the graphics or other filters) an "Allow List" is enforced and checked. The "Allow List" behavior is not enforced for the, nor due to the update for Microsoft Office File Converter Pack (this has been tested using Microsoft Office File Converter Pack with Office 2000 and applying updates). Unfortunately, to display all images correctly now, yet another registry modification should be configured. For 32-bit versions of Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, and Microsoft Office 2010, the following information can be used to disable the graphics filters "Allow List": (Thanks GrofLuigi for making reference to it) (Copy below contents and save as am ANSI-encoded text file ending in a black line and merge file to Windows registry) REGEDIT4 ; Applies to Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, and 32-bit Office 2010. ; Updates as of MS10-105 (update dated November 12, 2010), ; a graphics filter whitelist ("Allow List") is checked and enabled by default (KB2479871). ; AllowListEnabled value data of 0 disables the "Allow List"; value data of 1 enables the Allow List. ; This setting may be overridden by policy setting at the ; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\Common\Security\AllowLists\GraphicsFilterImport key. ; Disable "Allow List" restriction [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Common\Security\AllowLists\GraphicsFilterImport] "AllowListEnabled"=dword:00000000 ; Default ;"AllowListEnabled"=-

Thank you for the information GrofLuigi.So it seems as though I should test using different image formats. I also prefer to have everything enabled; however, it seemed that, as of MS10-105, every graphics filter except those except those explicitly specified to be enabled on an "Allow List" would be disabled. I also could not find documentation to disable the "Allow List". I wanted to test the impact of the change if the MS10-105 update were applied and to test the impact on the Microsoft Office File Converter Pack (see my other related thread at ).

Microsoft TechNet Security Bulletin MS10-105 (link) describes an update that applies to (though not limited to) Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, and Microsoft Office 2010. One of the documented known issues of the update is the enforcement of a graphics filter "Allow List". The graphics filter "Allow List" and its functionality should be documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base KB2479871 article (link to article). From what I understand of the KB2479871 article documentation, the MS10-105 update, modifies the way Office 2003, Office 2007, and Office 2010 handles graphics and seems to qualify graphics formats against a list of permissible formats (the "Allow List"). Only the Bitmap (.bmp), Encapsulated PostScript (.eps), Graphics Interchange Format (.gif), Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg, .jpeg), Macintosh PICT (.pict), and Portable Network Graphics (.png) formats should be defined to be permitted by default. The display or use of formats other graphics should not be permitted by Microsoft Office (various versions). I tried testing the "Allow List" behavior in Microsoft Office 2003. Microsoft Office 2003 should support the TIFF format, but the TIFF format should not be defined to be allowed/permitted on the Allow List (inferred from the information in the KB2479871 article). To test the behavior of the Allow List, I performed the following procedure on a computer with Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office 2003 installed: Apply the MS10-105 update for Microsoft Office 2003 with SP3, KB2289163 ("office2003-KB2289163-FullFile-ENU.exe"). Reboot. Create TIFF image in Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 import the image into a new Word document (".doc" type). Save and close the document. Open and examine the document using Microsoft Word. During and after the procedure, I noticed that the TIFF image imported and displayed. The expected result of the "Allow List" test was that the TIFF image would not display (and possibly not even import). However, the TIFF image, a format that should have not been permitted, displayed. I have attached a copy of the document I created using the procedure above ("Image support test.doc"), as well as an archive ("Test_Image.zip") with the image used in the procedure ("Test_Image.tif"). Am I interpreting the function of the "Allow List" incorrectly? If so, what should the "Allow List" actually do? Test_Image.zip Image support test.doc

I suppose it can be replaced by Windows Live Mail (I found the installer for Windows XP), but need not be.

Thanks for posting 5eraph. The first Windows Internet Explorer browser was released in year 2006 (over three years ago); it might have been decided to keep the updates separate at or before that time. Thank you for the information.

Windows Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP has been released. Windows Internet Explorer 8 does not come bundled with a version of Outlook Express. When Windows Internet Explorer 8 is installed on a computer running Windows XP, Outlook Express 6.0 remains and is functional. In the past, cumulative updates for Internet Explorer browsers and Outlook Express client were delivered in a single update package. Has this practice been discontinued? To update both Windows Internet Explorer 8 and Outlook Express 6.0, should an Internet Explorer 6 cumulative update package be applied in addition to the Windows Internet Explorer 8 cumulative update package?

I have almost completed my Office 2000 patch selection. I am uncertain whether an update patch different than that for the operating system is needed for Outlook 2000 to properly manage time (many Time Zone/Daylight Savings Time changes have occurred since the release of Office 2000 Service Pack 3)

So it seems like an old "mbsa cab" might be usable. I do not have one, however.

Thanl you PROBLEMCHYLD for your list.Most the patches on the list are replaced by newer patches.

Thank you for your response MDGx. The Automatic Delivery Toolkits to disable Windows Internet Explorer do not seem to prevent installation of Windows Internet Explorer. I am looking for a way to block Windows Internet Explorer 7 or Windows Internet Explorer 8 from being installed (including by manually running their installers), not just disabling their automatic delivery.

Microsoft Office File Converter Pack (described and download available here), a Microsoft Office converter pack with support for Office 2003 formats, has an update. That update, KB2456849 (download here), is described in MS10-105. The MS10-105 update, modifies the way Office 2003, Office 2007, and Office 2010 handles graphics seems to qualify graphic formats against an "Allow List" (More information is available in the KB2479871 article). Although not explicitly stated in KB2479871, should/does the KB2479871 also apply to Microsoft Office File Converter Pack?

Microsoft Update is also not providing updates for Microsoft Office 2000. I am also trying to update Microsoft Office 2000 (specifically Microsoft Office 2000 with SP3), but I uncertain as to which updates should be installed.