Reply mqadir Worked like a charm Reply Joan Dempsey You made me so happy This has been driving me crazy, and your solution worked perfectly.

Not a big deal, considering I have what needed to do with the suite.

Yes, its a bad habit, since updating the suite also protects the system from security issues.

What ultimately forced me to try and resolve the problem was that I wanted to get the new feature updates, such as the new Full-Screen view in Outlook 2016, reliability and performance upgrades.

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I even tried to download the update manually, but Microsofts Support page behaved unresponsive, even in alternative web browsers.

It turns out the culprit was the DNS server Microsoft uses to connect to the public Internet.

Either its a compatibility issue with the version of OS X Yosemite or Microsoft is not aware of the problem yet.

Now enter the following addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 then click OK.

Launch, any of the Office 2016 apps, then click Help Check for Updates then click Install.

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Thats it You should now be back in business and be able to download and install the updates.

You can always try downloading the AutoUpdate 3.4 update manually first to see if that will work.

Reply Andre Da Costa You are welcome RC Reply Alex Andre, youre the man The DNS trick made it instantaneously.

But how can it be so f stupid And how did you have the idea to investigate there Great job:):):) Reply Andre Da Costa I have been noticing for weeks now OS X seems to be throttling my network downloads.

I thought, since its affecting downloads, it must be something to do with how its connecting the Internet.

Because I am not so familiar with the command line on the Mac, such as flushdns on Windows, I researched if there was any alternative on for OS X.

Reply Sandro That worked Ive been having this annoying problem for a long time.

Im really upset that MS cannot correct this simple kind of problem.

It seems as if they were doing that on purpose so that we would adopt the always up to date 365 version.

Anyways, thank you so much for saving me with this problem Reply Maggie Wow, wow.

Reply David Hatcher This worked for me I was unable to load Word 2016 after upgrading to osx 10.11.4 and unable to download the Office 365 updates until I used your DNS tip.

Now everything has downloaded, installed, and is running perfectly I use the Office suite every dayyouve saved me a huge headache and lots of extra work.

Worked a treat. This has been annoying me for months Reply Spencer This is fantastic Id pretty much abandoned MS Office 365 because of the auto-update hang problem.

I found no solution that worked till I happened on this Bravo Reply Mike Thank you.

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