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Nigel Archer
Brass Contributor
Apr 03, 2019
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Does the Office 2019 share for local deployment grow each month and can it be tidied up?

Hi, I couldn't find a specific Office 2019 community so I'm asking the question here. We are deploying office 2019 from a local share set-up by the Office deployment tool rather than clients going d...
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  • Nigel Archer's avatar
    Nigel Archer
    Apr 18, 2019

    Thanks. We raised a call with Microsoft support and the ODT downloads a new version folder each month, e.g. Office\Data\16.0.10342.20010. It doesn't clean up previous version folders and each one is the latest copy of Office 2019 and around 2GB. We setup a scheduled task to run ODT to download the latest on the Wednesday after patch Tuesday and also delete old version folders (as you can safely do this). But we keep last month's version so this could be used for roll-back if the latest version breaks some functionality. 

     

    Nigel

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VasilMichev
MVP
Apr 03, 2019

Since you control the deployment process and the configuration files, you can delete any version not explicitly referenced in the config files. They might be needed for some users using the repair functionality, but you can always redownload them if you get too much of these.

  • Nigel Archer's avatar
    Nigel Archer
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 18, 2019

    Thanks. We raised a call with Microsoft support and the ODT downloads a new version folder each month, e.g. Office\Data\16.0.10342.20010. It doesn't clean up previous version folders and each one is the latest copy of Office 2019 and around 2GB. We setup a scheduled task to run ODT to download the latest on the Wednesday after patch Tuesday and also delete old version folders (as you can safely do this). But we keep last month's version so this could be used for roll-back if the latest version breaks some functionality. 

     

    Nigel

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