Crashing Outlook worldwide with 0xc0000005 error

Microsoft Outlook is immediately crashing upon opening when users start the program, with 0xc0000005 errors in Event Viewer.

These crashes started the last hour and reports are flooding in from all our clients and over the world. Thanks Microsoft!

The App event log, shows OUTLOOK.EXE crashed with code 0xc0000005.

An outlook rollback to 16.0.12827.20470 seems to fix this issue.

Fix the July 15th Outlook crash

You can resolve the issue by rolling back to a previous version of Microsoft Outlook. Here are the steps:

1. Close all Microsoft Office programs
2. Open command prompt
3. paste cd "\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun" and press enter.
4. Paste officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.12827.20470 and press enter.
5. When this finishes you should be able to run Microsoft Outlook again

Users may need admin rights to perform this fix. Please reach out to your IT department (or company).

Remember there are thousands of people having this same issue, please be patient and kind!