Outlook crashes when I attempt to attach an email (.msg) to an outgoing email

Anonymous
2024-02-20T19:12:33+00:00

I updated my computer this morning and now anytime I try and attach an email to an outgoing email, my entire Outlook crashes (before the email attaches and I get a chance to try and send the outgoing email). I've tried restarting Outlook and my computer. I have no problem attaching and sending other types of files. The issue is not limited to one particular email message I'm trying to attach or send -- I've tested the issue, and it has happened with all my tests or various email (.msg) attachments and outgoing emails.

I routinely attach emails from within my Outlook to my outgoing emails in Outlook, by dragging and dropping the email I want to attach to my outgoing email. This is the first time I'm having this issue. I imagine it may have something to do with the update I was forced to run this morning.

Any troubleshooting advice would be much appreciated. Thank you, all!

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-06T16:27:37+00:00

    This fix has worked for my organization with many other bugs so attempted this one as well. No Dice we are still having the issue.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-06T00:56:43+00:00

    I'm on 20142 and still have the issue.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-01T04:10:44+00:00

    Downgrading worked, and then updating to Version 2402 build 17328.20141 also worked. Thanks to everyone who suggested both options.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-29T00:45:41+00:00

    Unfortunately to make matters worse for me, none of the IT computers seem to have this issue or duplicate. Only everybody else, so finding a user I can bother will take some time. Not sure what could be different (we are not local admins either)

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-28T17:43:15+00:00

    Furthermore, here is what is logged in event viewer at the time of crash.

    Online suggestions were to try outlook /cleanviews as there is an issue with this mso20win32client.dll

    That did not help

    Faulting application name: OUTLOOK.EXE, version: 16.0.17328.20068, time stamp: 0x65c8cfd8

    Faulting module name: mso20win32client.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x65c8cc7f

    Exception code: 0x0152139a

    Fault offset: 0x000000000024047d

    Faulting process id: 0x0x507C

    Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA69BB3A648DB0

    Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\OUTLOOK.EXE

    Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office16\mso20win32client.dll

    Report Id: 64e02e43-19d0-43b3-9297-0fc156d10f9d

    Faulting package full name: 

    Faulting package-relative application ID:

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