
January 2022 access updates also cause issues In the blog post Access Lock Bug: Where the December 2021 Fixes Fail I had discussed the topic separately again. But these fixes are not helping all users. I had given an outline of these fixes in the blog post Status of the access bug after December 2021 update (3). Out-of-band-updates (hot fixes) for the various Access versions were still being rolled out by Microsoft in December 2021. Several users had contacted me and reported this problem. Now one user can still work with the database. In the blog post Patchday: Microsoft Office December 2021 updates () causes Access issues, I had indeed pointed out that the two updates listed above affect access to Access databases. For the Click-2-Run versions of Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office 2019 and Microsoft Office LTSC 2021, on the other hand, a Click-to-Run update with corresponding fixes was rolled out in December 2021 – there are no individual updates there.

As of December 14, 2021, updates KB5002104 (Office 2013) and KB5002099 (Office 2016) have been released for the MSI versions of Microsoft Office 20.In December 2021, Microsoft closed the (Elevation of Privilege) CVE-2021-42293 vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Red Database Engine and Access Connectivity Engine with the following updates.
