# ReactOS Weekly Report: Word 2010 Installation and Missing NTLM Authentication

DevFeed: [ReactOS Weekly Report: Word 2010 Installation and Missing NTLM Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/word-2010-support-weekly-report-part-4-update-authentication-failed-33057.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/word-2010-support-weekly-report-part4-update-authentication-failed/>)

Published: 2017-01-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [WINE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wine.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [wine](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wine.md>)

## AI overview

A ReactOS weekly report describes work on user-profile loading for service accounts and retesting the Word 2010 installation. The Office Software Protection service initialization succeeds after a temporary change, but later installation steps fail because ReactOS lacks the NTLM authentication provider.

## Source excerpt

Hi everyone, let me first wish you a happy new year 2017! During the second half of last month (December) I did not have much time to work on ReactOS, hence the fact I could not write more reports for you to read. I was however able to test some stuff I started to work on during last November. I have started to familiarize and play a bit with the user-profile APIs inside userenv.