The latest MS Office build 16.0.18324.20168 released on 01.07.25 does not work with MS Server 2016. It crashes with KERNELBASE.DLL messages and occationally a message like “unable to find react-native-win32.dll”
The only solution to this that I have found is to downgrade Office to an older build
We can accomplish this by running Office Deployment Tookit with the “/configure” switch and specify parameters like: