{"id":40017,"date":"2026-03-23T00:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=40017"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:54:33","slug":"windows-11-out-of-band-update-kb5085516-fixes-login-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/03\/23\/windows-11-out-of-band-update-kb5085516-fixes-login-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11: Out-of-band update KB5085516 fixes login issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Windows\"[German<\/a>]Users of Microsoft Teams (Free version) and other Microsoft apps (Word, Excel, etc.) have encountered sign-in issues on Windows 11 24H2\u201325H2 after installing update KB5079473 from March 10, 2026. On March 21, 2026, Microsoft released the out-of-band update KB5085516 to resolve these issues.<\/p>\n

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Recap of the sign-in issue<\/h2>\n

\"\"After installing the Windows update KB5079473<\/a> for Windows 11 24H2\u201325H2, released on March 10, 2026, there were reports that signing in to Microsoft accounts in some Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, OneDrive, Teams Free, etc.) could fail. I addressed this issue following a reader's tip regarding March 19, 2026, in the German blog post Anmeldung <\/a>in Microsoft Teams Free und anderen Apps scheitert (19.3.2026)<\/a> citing Microsoft's confirmation (see \"Microsoft account sign ins might fail for Microsoft Teams Free and other apps<\/a>\"). Microsoft had stated that it was working on a fix.<\/p>\n

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Fixed by Windows 11 Out-of-band update KB5085516<\/h2>\n

Microsoft then released the out-of-band update KB5085516<\/a> for Windows 11 24H2-25H2 on March 21, 2026, which is intended to resolve the sign-in issue. The support article states:<\/p>\n

Microsoft account sign in]\u00a0<\/b>Fixed: After you install the Windows update released on or after March 10, 2026, some users might experience an issue signing in to apps with a Microsoft account. Even when the device has a working Internet connection, a \"no Internet\" error appears during sign in and prevents access to Microsoft services and apps such as Microsoft Teams Free and OneDrive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[German]Users of Microsoft Teams (Free version) and other Microsoft apps (Word, Excel, etc.) have encountered sign-in issues on Windows 11 24H2\u201325H2 after installing update KB5079473 from March 10, 2026. On March 21, 2026, Microsoft released the out-of-band update KB5085516 to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[399,195,2643],"class_list":["post-40017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","category-windows","tag-fix","tag-update","tag-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40018,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40017\/revisions\/40018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}