Office 365 CTR Update path

Question

Good Day

We rolled out Office 365 a little over a year ago to 300+ users. My predecessor however did not take into account the updates for CTR.

Currently the clients are looking at MS Servers online for updates constantly which affects our internet on a daily basis. Is there a way to update the path to which the client looks for updates? Preferably without a redeployment after editing the .xml file? Majority of the users are still on 2013 with a select few on 2016 running trials before we roll it out to the rest of the business.

Thank you

Answer 1

Hi Jay,

Have you tried that way?

Could you share us some updates?

Regards,

William

Answer 2

Perfect thank you I will give this a try. I assume its just a regular string that I would need to create?

Answer 3

Yes, for Office 2013, the path is Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\common\officeupdate

Answer 4

Thanks William

I see this is for Office 2016. If it was for 2013, would I create this string under Office -> 15.0 -> ClickToRun -> Updates?

Answer 5

Hi Jay,

Yes, you can edit the “UpdatePath=” in the .xml file, but you need to redeploy it.

If you don’t want to redeploy the Office, you can edit the update path in the registry:

Create a new registry named “updatepath”.

Point it to the folder that contains the new Office package.

Regards,

William