I have a Surface Pro 5 with a Windows Hello camera that wasn't working and I wasn't able to fix it. Looked like I'd need to do a reset to fix the drivers, so instead I decided to give 2004 a try, hoping the update would refresh the camera drives. Indeed this worked, but I've been having a lot of problems since the update: Seems like all sorts of applications and OS features won't remember my username/passwords anymore. Every time I log in I have to sign into both one drive personal and one drive business. Outlook keeps asking me to log into my office365 every few hours. Acrobat keeps asking for my Adobe login every time a load a pdf if I haven't done so in a few hours. Settings periodically makes me fix my insider account configuration by re-authenticating with Hello Lastpass extention in Firefox keeps asking me to enter my password despite being configured to only require a fingeprint (it first asks me for my fingerprint, but then also asks for the password) probably some stuff I can't recall right now. I wasn't having any of these issues before the update. I tried following Lastpass's support advice to fix it by reinstalling the extension and resetting several settings but this didn't help. It's possible these are all individual issues, but since it seems to be an issue with remembering credentials across a variety of applications, I'm suspecting it's a system wide issue and maybe not specific to these applications. I checked that the credential manager service is running. It was set to manual. I changed it to automatic and rebooted but this didn't seem to help. Anyone have an idea what could be going on here? Thanks!

Update 2/8/21 This issue has been fixed by Windows in this Windows 10 update, February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com) . Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly. I am updating the Outlook Known Issue article to reflect the same, Outlook and other apps won't remember password after Windows Updates - Outlook (microsoft.com) .

Issue resolved in KB4601319 monthly update. If you continue to hit the issue, let us know. February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com) Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly.

Anyone else having this issue on only domain networked computers?

Is it just Office for you? Are you on a network? I am asking because my home computers have no problems at all but all our work computers do and non e of them are HP and we have no HP printers etc.. Everything is Dell. It is not just Office passwords are not retained for anything, network, websites, google, office 2013, office 365 Microsoft signin etc...

Hi Bama112 - I suspect my problem would have been resolved by removal of HP programs although in the end reverted to the earlier version of Windows. On the subject of HP, I had another problem where my Bluetooth keyboards behaved erratically. My problem was resolved by switching off the extra unused networking capabilities associated with my new HP Office jet printer - Bluetooth and WiFi Direct. HP pumps out frequencies looking for connections every so often and that activity potentially overwhelms the Bluetooth bandwidth. The repeated key syndrome happens when a key signal is being successfully sent but not acknowledged and it is resent (potentially a series of times). Sometimes it is the sending signal that is interrupted and so nothing happens. From daily instances of this problem I went straight to zero (for 6 weeks now) by turning off HP WiFi Direct and HP Bluetooth (using simply regular WiFi only for the printer). If a user experiencing this problem does not use an HP printer have a look at what else may be generating competing Bluetooth signals and try turning off or restricting those devices. HP are not my favourites for software - but maybe this is an MS issue more than an HP issue. Good luck everyone waiting for this MS fix. Till then 2004 is a 'No' from me. Thank you all for reporting on it.

Systemwide password amnesia (v2004 build 19041.173)

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I have a Surface Pro 5 with a Windows Hello camera that wasn't working and I wasn't able to fix it. Looked like I'd need to do a reset to fix the drivers, so instead I decided to give 2004 a try, hoping the update would refresh the camera drives. Indeed this worked, but I've been having a lot of problems since the update:

Seems like all sorts of applications and OS features won't remember my username/passwords anymore.

Every time I log in I have to sign into both one drive personal and one drive business.
Outlook keeps asking me to log into my office365 every few hours.
Acrobat keeps asking for my Adobe login every time a load a pdf if I haven't done so in a few hours.
Settings periodically makes me fix my insider account configuration by re-authenticating with Hello
Lastpass extention in Firefox keeps asking me to enter my password despite being configured to only require a fingeprint (it first asks me for my fingerprint, but then also asks for the password)
probably some stuff I can't recall right now.

I wasn't having any of these issues before the update.

I tried following Lastpass's support advice to fix it by reinstalling the extension and resetting several settings but this didn't help.

It's possible these are all individual issues, but since it seems to be an issue with remembering credentials across a variety of applications, I'm suspecting it's a system wide issue and maybe not specific to these applications.

I checked that the credential manager service is running. It was set to manual. I changed it to automatic and rebooted but this didn't seem to help.

Anyone have an idea what could be going on here?

Thanks!

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Update 2/8/21

This issue has been fixed by Windows in this Windows 10 update, February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com).

Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly.

I am updating the Outlook Known Issue article to reflect the same, Outlook and other apps won't remember password after Windows Updates - Outlook (microsoft.com).

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Issue resolved in KB4601319 monthly update. If you continue to hit the issue, let us know.

February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com)

Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly.

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2020-11-02T16:13:25+00:00

Anyone else having this issue on only domain networked computers?
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2020-11-02T16:12:32+00:00

Is it just Office for you? Are you on a network? I am asking because my home computers have no problems at all but all our work computers do and non e of them are HP and we have no HP printers etc.. Everything is Dell. It is not just Office passwords are not retained for anything, network, websites, google, office 2013, office 365 Microsoft signin etc...
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2020-11-02T08:29:13+00:00

Hi Bama112 - I suspect my problem would have been resolved by removal of HP programs although in the end reverted to the earlier version of Windows.

On the subject of HP, I had another problem where my Bluetooth keyboards behaved erratically. My problem was resolved by switching off the extra unused networking capabilities associated with my new HP Office jet printer - Bluetooth and WiFi Direct. HP pumps out frequencies looking for connections every so often and that activity potentially overwhelms the Bluetooth bandwidth. The repeated key syndrome happens when a key signal is being successfully sent but not acknowledged and it is resent (potentially a series of times). Sometimes it is the sending signal that is interrupted and so nothing happens. From daily instances of this problem I went straight to zero (for 6 weeks now) by turning off HP WiFi Direct and HP Bluetooth (using simply regular WiFi only for the printer). If a user experiencing this problem does not use an HP printer have a look at what else may be generating competing Bluetooth signals and try turning off or restricting those devices.

HP are not my favourites for software - but maybe this is an MS issue more than an HP issue. Good luck everyone waiting for this MS fix. Till then 2004 is a 'No' from me. Thank you all for reporting on it.
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