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Office 365 Pro Plus - Closes All Office apps when updates are deployed
DaveGuenthner Christopher Hadwin You can recreate the configuration file to point to a specific update location. (AKA an Office folder that is manually updated by you / company) You can configure an XML file at https://config.office.com . I made an example for you to look at below. It is the text in Red.
<Configuration ID="9ec530f3-7a38-4a08-a125-fc673c704fba">
<Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="Targeted" ForceUpgrade="TRUE">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="MatchOS" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
<ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="0" />
<Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar" Value="FALSE" />
<Property Name="SCLCacheOverride" Value="0" />
<Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="0" />
<Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="FALSE" />
<Property Name="DeviceBasedLicensing" Value="0" />
<Updates Enabled="FALSE" UpdatePath="\\server\shared" />
<Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Logging Level="Off" />
</Configuration>
MicrosoftDBarnhart Thanks for the suggestion. My take is to never use a on-premises file share because it has so many pitfalls. (IT Pro has to download all content and mirror CDN and when you consider all the different channels and architecture combinations cost of ownership is too high in my opinion) Also, for customers who use SCCM, this breaks it due to UpdatePath having priority. When possible use CDN or SCCM only.
- In https://config.office.com it will show you the option to add an exception for your SCCM or CDN connections.
