Restart Office to apply changes to your privacy settings - endless notices

Hi,

I have had issues with connecting in the past - don't specifically remember when but I think it was within the last 12 months. Here are a list of things that you could consider trying:

I repaired my O365 installation

I removed the Gmail accounts from Outlook and then added them back

I uninstalled O365 and re-installed it on Windows 10 this process maintained all my settings - I didn't have add all my email accounts back - I currently have more than 10

The following is what I began dealing with about 3 weeks ago, after renewing my yearly subscription, and it's breaking more and more functionality by the day.

Of course, the first part is what we've always been used to seeing, but previously, the only other things disabled were items like expanded Thesaurus & Dictionary functionality, Maps, Encyclopedic services, things easily lived without.  Now we can't even sync Office between our devices, collaborate on Office documents, share Office documents, etc.

The only recourse I can see is to go to MS Office 365 for Business.

"The following is what I began dealing with about 3 weeks ago, after renewing my yearly subscription, and it's breaking more and more functionality by the day."

This has become my experience as well. I just auto-renewed a week or so ago, my OneNote files are no longer syncing well and complaining, My Gmail endless prompting for passwords began sometime ago, Unless I open my privacy settings wide, a bunch of functionality disappears and I have endless continuous prompts and issues. The Restart Office notice anytime I open 'any Office product continues'. With every update, my legacy MS system (Surface Pro 3 that is perfectly functional

• or was) continues to have more connectivity, HW driver or usability issues, some I have 'fixed' post update at least a half dozen times. I have lost my patience. 

The value of Windows and Office for me was it's openess and general support for connectivity with other chosen services. What is happening is exactly what the CEO said he would do. "We are no longer going to make it easy for competitors to work with our products". I couldn't believe it when I heard it. To me that is almost anti-trust and I heard no general market complaints about that position.

Microsoft 'wins' that round? Nope, I am actively working on a platform migration. I have been a loyal MS user since there was a Microsoft, but this continued behavior of feeling like they have the right to decide what I can and can't use on MY computer because I choose to use their OS or purposely undermine other product's ability to work is unconscionable. I for one am surprised the market in general is not in a total uproar over this and actively working on alternatives like I am, perhaps they are quietly.

The definite downside of 'subscription services or Cloud" and I still think a terrible model for an OS. MS has completely forgotten who they are and what has made them successful. Even Mr. Gates doesn't want to be a part of it anymore. That is like disowning your own child. Voting with our pocketbooks is our only recourse.

This is the last thing I wanted to spend my time and money on but MS has left me no choice as I see it. It is a principal and continued headaches I can no longer support. At least before I had control over when I could allow them to 'fix and update things' and selectively so it wasn't disruptive to getting things done, Now I can't even do that. To me this is completely unacceptable corporate behavior.

Sayonara MS.

Hear, hear!

Same problem here, with the Office 365 subscription I get from work. Disabling "Optional Connected Experiences" (OCE) never works: I disable it, re-start Office (or the entire MacOS), go back into Office and I get the warning that I need to restart Office and the OCE is there again ticked.

My best guess is that my admins - whether willingly or not - have set Office so that I must use the OCE, and Office mistakenly offers me the option to disable it, and then fails, and then goes in some kind of loop.