Change default file type of reports to .XLSX
The default file type of Excel report export files should be changed to .xlsx because the .xls file type will no longer be fully supported under Windows 11 as Microsoft itself considers .xls files as "not secure".
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Thomas Knops
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Thomas Knops
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Further information: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-baselines/security-baseline-for-office-365-proplus-v1908-sept-2019-final/ba-p/873084
"One of the threats of these old binary file formats is that their inherent complexity too often led to exploitable bugs in their parsers. The bigger threat is that many of these formats can include macros or other executable instructions that are easily abused."