As part of releasing Microsoft Office 2016 15.27, Microsoft has also updated Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) to include an interesting new feature: Automatically Download and Install. In MAU 3.8 and later, this feature will automatically download updates for Office 2016 applications and do the following. Microsoft AutoUpdate 4.5 - Provides latest MS Office updates to customers. To install, and you can also use it to manually check for new downloads as well.
Posted: Today at 1:00 PM by tnielsen Thanks How are you guys disabling this for new computers that have never had office on them? The plist isn't there so it won't write. Since the apps are sandbox, the plist never shows up.
I'm thinking I'm missing something. Whether or not the plist is present doesn't prevent the defaults write command from taking place. For the main commands to nix the splash screen, this is set once on a machine-level before the applications are launched and is immediate. The autoupdate disable has to be done in the user, but could be written into the User Template folder to take effect for each user when they first login. Existing users would need the command run for each account. I found today as of the 9.93 release (maybe before?) that there is a new built-in Managed Preferences template already for 'Microsoft Office Auto Update' which has the WhenToCheck and HowToCheck options pre-built, and supports custom settings (i.e.
ChannelName = 'External'). I'm testing a profile now to push some of our advanced users to use the InsiderFast channel with daily checks, and another for 'normal' users (without Admin rights, ideally) to Manual check, External ChannelName, and DisableInsiderCheckbox. Did you find anything else out about this? I had setup some options for the autoupdate2 using Managed Preferences, but also discovered after the fact that they appear to be deprecated now. Trying to find all of the available options for MAU, as I DO want to enable AutoUpdate (as of MAU 3.6 I think, the process runs as System and doesn't prompt users for Admin credentials to install the updates). Also combing the MacAdmins Slack channel looking for more info; seems that MAU 3.8 is now out and supports automatic download of the updates!
Posted: Today at 1:00 PM by tnielsen Thanks How are you guys disabling this for new computers that have never had office on them? The plist isn't there so it won't write. Since the apps are sandbox, the plist never shows up. I'm thinking I'm missing something. Whether or not the plist is present doesn't prevent the defaults write command from taking place. For the main commands to nix the splash screen, this is set once on a machine-level before the applications are launched and is immediate.
The autoupdate disable has to be done in the user, but could be written into the User Template folder to take effect for each user when they first login. Existing users would need the command run for each account. I found today as of the 9.93 release (maybe before?) that there is a new built-in Managed Preferences template already for 'Microsoft Office Auto Update' which has the WhenToCheck and HowToCheck options pre-built, and supports custom settings (i.e. ChannelName = 'External'). I'm testing a profile now to push some of our advanced users to use the InsiderFast channel with daily checks, and another for 'normal' users (without Admin rights, ideally) to Manual check, External ChannelName, and DisableInsiderCheckbox. Did you find anything else out about this?
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