office 365 - how to temorarily disable the update feature for all users?

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2018-01-28

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_{Sunday, January 28, 2018 1:46 PM}

It seems a recent issue cause lots of issues for our users, we'd like to tem disable the update feature.

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_{Monday, January 29, 2018 9:06 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Olkissue,

You can use Group Policy Object Editor to create a policy setting to disable the automatic updates feature for Office. In that way, Office 365 won’t check for updates. And to prevent users from clicking Enable Updates in the File-> Account->Office Updates, you can also disable that button via GPO. In addition, you can enable these features in the future when you want Office to updates automatically. There is a reference about using Group Policy to configure update settings for Office 365.

To disable the automatic updates feature for Office, please try the following group policy settings:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate
Value Name: enableautomaticupdates
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 0

To hide the option of enable or disable updates, please try the following group policy settings:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate
Value Name: hideenabledisableupdates
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 1

Hope it helps.

Best Regards,

Aaron Zhang

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_{Tuesday, February 6, 2018 1:29 AM}

Hi,

It has been a while since your last reply, any update on your side, please feel free to let us know.