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Office bypassing Target Version set by Intune
Ok so I was managing my Microsoft patches through Intune. A while back Microsoft sent out this message…. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployOffice/other/devices-updating-monthly-enterprise-chann...
manoth_msft
Microsoft
MicrosoftFirst, settings from config.office.com or from Intune do overrule the preferences from admin.microsoft.com. Second, config.office.com overrules Intune in regards to Office updates.
So if a device is Intune managed and targeted by the Servicing Profile, Profile (from config.office.com) will overrule the Intune Office update settings.
In order to further help, what are you aiming to do? Keep Profiles active and devices on MEC, as profiles offer additional features (like rollback, Office-specific reports, easy waver controls)? Disable profiles and revert control to Intune? Do you want to stay on MEC or move back to SAEC?
So if a device is Intune managed and targeted by the Servicing Profile, Profile (from config.office.com) will overrule the Intune Office update settings.
In order to further help, what are you aiming to do? Keep Profiles active and devices on MEC, as profiles offer additional features (like rollback, Office-specific reports, easy waver controls)? Disable profiles and revert control to Intune? Do you want to stay on MEC or move back to SAEC?
manoth_msft I am interested in this as well.
We have just started using Intune and targeting the Current Channel.
config.office.com had been set up and there is a Monthly Enterprise Channel servicing profile configured.
We are finding a lot of machines are reverting to the Monthly Channel.
Is it only possible to have the Monthly Enterprise Channel as the Servicing option in config.office.com?
Sorry can you please confirm what MEC and SAEC means?Thanks in advance.
- manoth_msftHi Steven,
MEC = Monthly Enterprise Channel
SAEC = Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel
As mentioned above, if the same group of devices is targeted by Intune and Servicing Profiles, profiles will win and overrule the update channel assigned by Intune. If you want to have both update channels in your environment, you need to use the "group filtering" feature in Servicing Profile to restrict the scope or de-select "Current Channel" from the Selection Criteria page. Check out https://youtu.be/YO6a3iNVXXI for more details on how Profiles work.
And yes, as of now, the outcome of a device being targeted by Servicing Channel is always Microsoft 365 Apps on Monthly Enterprise Channel. Currently Profiles does not support keeping devices current on SAEC or CC (Current Channel).- Thank you for the confirmation. due to our business structure, we only have some users on Intune. We were pushing the Current Channel out via Intune, but were having issues with config.office.com pushing out the MEC.
As you say, we could exclude Intune users from the MEC, but probably easier to have both areas pushing the same version. We use Tenable for vulnerability scanning, and it was firing alarms when the new monthly version came out. which always kept us behind. no one wants to see lots of vulnerabilities every month!
