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Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive. When you try to activate or sign in to any of the Microsoft Office 2016 applications after you install the version 15.33 update, you receive a blank authentication screen. Additionally, you may see any of the following symptoms. The following issues occur in the Unified Logging Service (ULS) log.

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Original KB number: 2854787

Symptoms

When you view an email message in Microsoft Outlook, the message body is blank.

Cause

This problem may occur because of an incompatibility between the Avgoutlook.Addin add-in and Outlook.

Resolution

Important

Follow the steps in this section carefully. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Before you modify it, back up the registry for restoration in case problems occur.

To resolve this problem, follow these steps to disable the Avgoutlook.Addin add-in. If the problem is, we recommend that you contact the vendor of the add-in to ask about an updated version of the add-in.

  1. Exit Microsoft Outlook if it is running.

  2. Start Registry Editor. To do this, use one of the following procedures, as appropriate for your version of Windows.

    Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and, Windows 8: Press the Windows key+R to open a Run dialog box, type regedit in the Open box, and then press OK.

    In Windows 7 or Windows Vista: Select Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press Enter.

  3. Locate and then select the following registry subkey, depending on the type of Office and Windows installations that you have.

    • 32-bit Office plus 32-bit Windows

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOfficeOutlookAddinsavgoutlook.Addin

    • 64-bit Office plus 64-bit Windows

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOfficeOutlookAddinsavgoutlook.Addin

    • 32-bit Office plus 64-bit Windows

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftOfficeOutlookAddinsavgoutlook.Addin

  4. Right-click the LoadBehavior value, and then select Modify.

  5. Change the Value Data value to 0, and then select OK.

  6. Start Microsoft Outlook.

Note

To re-enable this add-in in Outlook, change the LoadBehavior value to 3.

More information

The Friendly Name of the Avgoutlook.Addin add-in is AVG Addin for MS Outlook.

For AVG software download information, go to the following AVG website:

Note

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Symptoms

When you try to activate or sign in to any of the Microsoft Office 2016 applications after you install the version 15.33 update, you receive a blank authentication screen. Additionally, you may see any of the following symptoms.

Symptom 1

The following issues occur in the Unified Logging Service (ULS) log:

  • The server has redirected to a non-https URL.
  • Errors occur in Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) authentication.

To locate the ULS log, open Finder and browse to the following path:

~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.<Application>/Data/Library/Caches/Microsoft/uls/com.microsoft.<Application>/logs

Note <Application> represents the name of the application that you are troubleshooting.

Symptom 2

You notice that in an HTTP trace, the server response includes multiple WWW-Authenticate headers, such as the following:

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WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate

WWW-Authenticate: NTLM

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Cause

The symptoms occur for the following corresponding reasons:

Cause for symptom 1

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Starting from Office 2016 for Mac version 15.33, unsecured endpoint traffic is blocked in authentication flows.

Cause for symptom 2

Starting from Office 2016 for Mac version 15.33, the authentication method no longer selects NTLM authentication when multiple WWW-Authenticate headers are present in the response. The issue occurs when the selected authentication method is unsuccessful.

Resolution

Resolution for symptom 1

Configure all authentication endpoints to use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

Resolution for symptom 2

Install the September 2017 update for Office 2016 for Mac version 15.38.

More Information

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More information for symptom 1

The resolution applies when you use Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services or non-Microsoft federation solutions.