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November 11, 2014 update for PowerPoint 2007 (KB2597972)

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 6

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FIX: The guest operating system may crash when you perform a live migration of Hyper-V virtual machines in a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment

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