Windows Application fails to start in WS2016

[RSU2010]

We have a legacy windows desktop application which runs fine in Windows 10 but fails to start in Windows Server 2016. We get Access violation error while loading the EXPSRV.DLL

Below is the WinDBg output

ModLoad: 71520000 7153f000 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dwmapi.dll
ModLoad: 6c200000 6c3e3000 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msxml6.dll
ModLoad: 760f0000 7626e000 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CRYPT32.dll
ModLoad: 76970000 7697e000 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MSASN1.dll
ModLoad: 68730000 687d8000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\office14\ACEES.DLL
ModLoad: 6caa0000 6caae000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\VBAJET32.DLL
ModLoad: 68600000 68671000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\expsrv.dll
(5b4.d70): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance)
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated

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