AutoUpdate 3.0.5 was installed with the last Office update a few days ago. Microsoft has backed off from the mess it made with a new version of AutoUpdate you can download now. The problem only happens if you're using both the Office 2016 preview Microsoft has posted as well as Office 2011.

Once you installed the previous version of AutoUpdate, you'd find that it would locate but would be unable to install an update to Office 2011. What's worse, the AutoUpdate program would grab lots of memory and generally make a mess of things. People were running into this problem:

This Microsoft office for mac 2011 is only compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.8 users or for the more the 10.5.8 version. Below this version of the mac os, it won’t support to install this Microsoft to install or for the further use this Microsoft version was released on 22nd day of the month of September in the year of 2010. Nov 10, 2014  Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.4.6 update. In addition to the application improvements that are mentioned in this article, Office for Mac 2011 is now available as a subscription offering. Microsoft has released Office for Mac 2011 version 14.5.0 with new advanced features and has patches for a remote code execution vulnerability that exists previously in Microsoft Office software when it fails to properly handle version of Mac OS.

To get past it, the easiest thing to do is to to run AutoUpdate again. It'll find the updated version of itself and install it. To do so, just select the 'Check for Updates' option in the Help menu of any open Microsoft application.

If that doesn't work, or if you don't trust AutoUpdate to do the right thing, you can download the latest updater from Microsoft's web site and install it yourself. That'll download to your Downloads folder as a .pkg file.

How to run the AutoUpdate installer

1. Double-click on 'Microsoft AutoUpdate 3.0.6.pkg' to launch the installer.
2. Click Continue.
3. Click Continue again to install it to your Mac's hard drive.
4. Click Install.
5. Enter your administrator password and click Install Software.
6. After it's done click the Close button.

That's it.

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