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:
Apr 17, 2015 Updating AutoUpdate Can't update Office 2011 on your Mac? Here's the fix! A change to the previous version of Microsoft's AutoUpdate utility caused updates to break in Office 2011 for OS X. A fix is ready for download.
May 07, 2018 Outlook 2011 for Mac application won’t launch or start. (windows) and click the Outlook icon on on the Dock (If the icon not appears on dock, Go to /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011 folder and drag the outlook file to Dock). Microsoft database utility will appear. (Remove Outlook preference file) Go to /Library/Preferences. Describes the condition where you cannot add, remove, or change contacts in Microsoft Lync 2010 and Lync for Mac 2011 after you upgrade to Microsoft Lync Server 2013.
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. Microsoft outlook multiple email accounts mac download.
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.
That's it.
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