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uhewuihiu
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Nov 30, 2020

Office Updates every morning

Hi,   for most of the users Office updates itself every morning. This is very annoying because when e.g writing an email Outlook closes itself without notification. For some users it is sufficient ...
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ChristianBergstrom
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Dec 16, 2020
Have a look at this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/choose-how-manage-updates-microsoft-365-apps
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uhewuihiu
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Feb 24, 2021

ChristianBergstrom 

 

Our settings are set to directly update from CDN, no local source and no other management solutionen.

 

Even purging office ( deleting everything in the user app data folder) and re-installing via "setup.exe /configure .abc.xml" does not remove this strange behaviour.

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    ChristianBergstrom
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    Feb 24, 2021
    Still an issue? Obviously you’re not using the channels as the automatic updates are running. Why don’t you open up a support ticket with Microsoft. It’s too difficult without knowing the big picture. These kind of issues really need to be analyzed properly, collecting logs etc. Microsoft can assist with that.
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      uhewuihiu
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      Feb 24, 2021

      ChristianBergstrom 

       

      What exactly do you mean we are not using the channels? 

      We set up Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

       

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        uhewuihiu
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        Feb 24, 2021

        uhewuihiu 

         

        <Configuration ID="a2f8a40d-7721-4b61-8885-ed96f2c5d5af">
  <Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="Deferred" SourcePath="\\srvdata01\odt" AllowCdnFallback="FALSE">
    <Product ID="O365BusinessRetail">
      <Language ID="de-de" />
      <Language ID="en-us" />
      <Language ID="fr-fr" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
    </Product>
  </Add>
  <Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar" Value="TRUE" />
  <Property Name="SCLCacheOverride" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="TRUE" />
  <Property Name="DeviceBasedLicensing" Value="0" />
  <Updates Enabled="TRUE" />
  <AppSettings>
    <Setup Name="Company" Value="XXX" />
    <User Key="software\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\options" Name="defaultformat" Value="51" Type="REG_DWORD" App="excel16" Id="L_SaveExcelfilesas" />
    <User Key="software\microsoft\office\16.0\powerpoint\options" Name="defaultformat" Value="27" Type="REG_DWORD" App="ppt16" Id="L_SavePowerPointfilesas" />
    <User Key="software\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options" Name="defaultformat" Value="" Type="REG_SZ" App="word16" Id="L_SaveWordfilesas" />
  </AppSettings>
  <Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
  <Logging Level="Standard" Path="%TEMP%" />
</Configuration>

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