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Aha, didn’t understand that from Patch Lady’s ‘To patch or not to patch’ post and comments.
No hard feelings though, didn’t feel like uninstalling security updates anyway and went to give KB4100480 a try: all’s fine on my Group B stand-alone work & play pc.

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anonymous wrote:

Dell initially claimed that microsoft doesn’t use product keys for office anymore.

They might be right. No product keys, only licenses. For Office 365 Click-to-run at least.

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

↑ That’s me: LTL. Forgot to log in….

Another thing, Susan: I get the impression that you feel a bit guilty maybe?
I don’t blame you at all. I could have known, or at least be more cautious when middling with ms’ incomprehensable systematics. Even a full system restore couldn’t undo it.

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

People seem to differ on the cause and the cure
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/dff92319-5424-4e26-a1d9-c693b0e87567/microsoft-outlook-2016-keeps-asking-for-a-password?forum=outlook

Tried most of them already.

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

MrBrian wrote:

Are you using the same Office version now as you were a few days ago?

Yes, same one.

MrBrian wrote:

Outlook 2016 prompting for login credentials when opening any email attachments. The last post in that thread seems to describe your issue.

Thanks, but no it’s not. In my case it asks to login every time I start Outlook.

I spoke with MS on the phone a few days back, and they said they could see my Office is not recognized as being legit to be updated through a different channel. (Bc of the third party ‘token’ that was used when purchasing and installing Office.)
That still doesn’t explain the annoying login since I reverted, but hey: it’s MS.

Like I said: I love it and I hate it.

P.S. If Windows Credentials Manager makes credentials (which it not always does), those are persistent only “for the session”, not for “Enterprise”. Hence the needed logins.

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

Well Susan, it’s not so much an error but an annoyance. Outlook keeps asking to login in order to synchronize my Exchange mail.
Before this all happened, I was automatically logged in with my Exchange profile.

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

Maybe this can help How to (manually) uninstall Windows updates

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

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HiFlyer, lgjr3491

Thanks, I know. Askwoody.com is one of the few that I keep cookies from.
Cache was emptied already many times, but somehow Woody’s data was persistent. (?)

Anyways, cleaned and solved.

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

To answer to my own remark:

When I open askwoody.com in a private tab, they DO show up! So I have to clean up my browser’s cookies and cache.

Problem solved (?)

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

Thanks PKCano, I’m aware of that but I still don’t understand why Woody calls KB 4034664 a kind of SP2 roll up. That gave me the impression that it’s important.

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

I’m in the Win7/x64 Group B and normally only install ‘pure’ security updates, so is this KB 4034664 update/sp2 recommendable?
Woody doesn’t seem to tone it down, although in the overview in 2000003 I see its security-only alternative KB 4034679 (and 4034733).

So what’s up? Should I install KB 4034664 or not?

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

Just checked WU (Group B) out of curiosity, and Security Update for MS Office Outlook 2007 KB3213643 came up. Leaving it as it is for now.

LMDE is my daily driver now. Old friend Win10 keeps spinning in the background

This may be kind of ‘off topic’, but today https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions released new definition updates (Version: 1.249.501.0) for Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender.

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ch100 wrote:

….
Your post does not actually address the current issue, …. 

?? The post says “Office security patches are all screwed up” but on my system they did not screw up anything, so that’s why I posted this.
And only added the date differences to be complete.

ch100 wrote:

….
but raises a different legitimate Office Update issue. 

?? Please explain

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