{"id":1050,"date":"2026-01-26T03:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/microsoft-releases-second-emergency-windows-11-update-to-fix-outlook-crashes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T03:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:20:12","slug":"microsoft-releases-second-emergency-windows-11-update-to-fix-outlook-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/microsoft-releases-second-emergency-windows-11-update-to-fix-outlook-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases second emergency Windows 11 update to fix Outlook crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft issued another out-of-band update to fix a bug that caused <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-makes-outlook-free-to-use-for-mac-201328421.html\">Outlook<\/a> to crash for Windows 11 users. This second <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/release-health\/status-windows-11-25h2#2738msgdesc\">emergency patch<\/a> addresses issues seen with Outlook and files stored in the cloud following Microsoft&#8217;s January 2026 Windows security update.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft, this update fixes a bug where some apps that &#8220;open or save files stored in cloud-backed locations&#8221; became unresponsive or displayed error messages. Some users also experienced Outlook crashing or not opening when PST files are stored in cloud-based options like OneDrive.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is the second time this year that Microsoft had to issue a last-minute fix for bugs related to its January security update. <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/computing\/microsoft-issues-emergency-fix-afer-a-security-update-left-some-windows-11-devices-unable-to-shut-down-192216734.html\">Last week<\/a>, some Windows 11 devices couldn&#8217;t shut down or hibernate, while other devices running Windows 10 or 11 couldn&#8217;t log in through remote connections. For more context, Microsoft only issues out-of-band updates when there&#8217;s a serious issue that can&#8217;t wait until its regular update cycle. Fortunately, the latest out-of-band update is cumulative, so you only need to download and install this one to fix the issues seen with the January update.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/computing\/microsoft-releases-second-emergency-windows-11-update-to-fix-outlook-crashes-192012812.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/microsoft-releases-second-emergency-windows-11-update-to-fix-outlook-crashes\/\">Microsoft releases second emergency Windows 11 update to fix Outlook crashes<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft issued another out-of-band update to fix a bug that caused Outlook to crash for Windows 11 users. This second emergency patch addresses issues seen with Outlook and files stored in the cloud following Microsoft&#8217;s January 2026 Windows security update. According to Microsoft, this update fixes a bug where some apps that &#8220;open or save files stored in cloud-backed locations&#8221; became unresponsive or displayed error messages. Some users also experienced Outlook crashing or not opening when PST files are stored in cloud-based options like OneDrive. This is the second time this year that Microsoft had to issue a last-minute fix for bugs related to its January security update. Last week, some Windows 11 devices couldn&#8217;t shut down or hibernate, while other devices running Windows 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}