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Understanding Office 365 ProPlus Updates for IT Pros (CDN vs SCCM)

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DaveGuenthner
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Aug 08, 2019
In supporting customers in the field, we receive many questions about Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (formerly known as Office 365 ProPlus) update process. The objective of this blog is to provide...
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Petrokl
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Dec 07, 2020

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your response about 'UpdateChannel' key. It definitely works.

 

I've got another question. For enabling "Office 365 Client Management" on clients we used GPO on our test environment. Also we switched “Enable management of the Office 365 Client Agent” to Yes from within SCCM Client settings under Software Updates (to get O365 updates via SCCM). As you mentioned: "Only one is required, where policy overrides and take priority over all other methods." And it's true. We have this key on the machines: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate OfficeMgmtCOM = 1 

 

But when I turned setting "Management of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise" to "Not Configured" in GPO, then update group policies on the machines, "OfficeMgmtCOM" disappeared from the machines. It's ok... and I expected to receive it again from SCCM client setting (because of Yes in “Enable management of the Office 365 Client Agent”), but it won't. I ran "Machine policy Retrieval & Evaluation Cycle" several times, waited for couple of days. Nothing. "OfficeC2RCom" object is registered.

 

What I'm doing wrong? How to switch on/off "OfficeMgmtCOM" from SCCM client settings?

Thank you.