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Disable or Hide Update Now UI in Office 2016 Clients

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Monday, October 16, 2017 6:44 PM

Is there a way to hide/disable the Update Now UI from the Office 2016 clients?  We would like to control all updates centrally. 

Thank you

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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 5:31 AM âś…Answered | 1 vote

Hi,

To remove the 'Update Now' button, you will need to disable automatic updates. To do this, add the following registry entry:

**HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\OfficeUpdate
**DWORD: EnableAutomaticUpdates
Values: 
0 = automatic updates are disabled 
1 = automatic updates are enabled

In addition, here is a reference for you about how to centrally manage Office updates:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Choose-how-to-manage-updates-to-Office-365-ProPlus-e486afce-ad31-4889-87a4-28796751bb86

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Steve Fan

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Monday, October 23, 2017 7:38 PM

Will the client still update from SCCM if this registry value is entered? 

Thank you

David

Thursday, October 26, 2017 9:13 AM

Will the client still update from SCCM if this registry value is entered? 

Thank you

David

Yes, you can refer to the article I mentioned before, see the "Apply updates by installing an updated version of Office 365 ProPlus" section.

Regards,

Steve Fan

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Friday, June 15, 2018 10:46 AM

The problem with this is that is displays 'This product will not be updated' which is A: not true B: not the message you want to give to your users

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 11:09 AM

The problem with this is that is displays 'This product will not be updated' which is A: not true B: not the message you want to give to your users

Exactly this.  Any update about this?  I don't want our Citrix users pressing the Update Now button, this will do nothing for them, but it will trigger the update window on an admin session.  

Come on, please fix this.  Just let us hide the Update button for end users.

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 6:25 PM

The registry entry changes Steve Fan mentioned above is the solution for why I created this question.

"

To remove the 'Update Now' button, you will need to disable automatic updates. To do this, add the following registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\OfficeUpdate
DWORD: EnableAutomaticUpdates
Values: 
0 = automatic updates are disabled 
1 = automatic updates are enabled

In addition, here is a reference for you about how to centrally manage Office updates:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Choose-how-to-manage-updates-to-Office-365-ProPlus-e486afce-ad31-4889-87a4-28796751bb86"