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Downloading Office 365 Pro Plus in portal....what determines the version that downloads?
That's interesting, Semi-Annual Channel is the default for Office 365 ProPlus, for Office 365 Business subscribers the default is the Monthly Channel. There can be other factors like when Visio Pro for Office 365 is installed (or Project Online Desktop Client) they have to be on the same channel.
With downloading the Office365 ProPlus monthly channel version from the portal, when it's not set at the tenant level, I'd wonder if it's not being configured somewhere post-installation (Config Manager or Group Policy). The latest version available when Targeted release for Office 365 is enabled for users would be Version 1803 on Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) release with those defaults as I understand it.
You are correct, we do control the update channel using a Group policy and I'm setup for the Monthly channel. We have an Office 365 E3 subscription.
So I assume is somehow determines your channel and downloads/installs the same version from the portal.
No, if I understand what you are saying, the admin portal settings are only for when downloading from https://portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx and what update channel you start with, it has no control outside of this for other Office clients that are deployed via ODT, Config Manager or other means that are configured as part of the deployment. The channel can always be overridden or controlled irrespective of what channel you started with, like with what you mentioned, with Group Policy, any client that picks that policy up will be reconfigured accordingly as I understand it, in your case on the Monthly channel.