Office Automatic Updates task

Question

Hi,

I am updating O365 ProPlus 2016 from a UNC share. Basically that works fine, after I have changed the parameters of the "Office Automatic Updates" scheduled task. After ODT deployment the parameters were OfficeC2RClient.exe /update SCHEDULEDTASK displaylevel=False, which I, as recommended by several blogs, changed to /update USER displaylevel=False, as with SCHEDULEDTASK the scheduled task actually does nothing, and only the interactive update works. With USER both work.

The problem with USER displaylevel=False is that the user is not notified that an update is available and users typically don't check File->Account every day and they should't need to. So I changed to USER displaylevel=True which notifies the user that there are updates, BUT as the scheduled task is run after every log on, they also get the not very helpful message "You're up to date!" after every logon. 

Is there a way to only get notified when there is actually an update available?

Background:

Windows 7 Enterprise

Scheduled Task is changed via GPO

Update Path is set via GPO not via deployment XML file

KR

Alex

Answer 1

Hi Alex,

If you set DisplayLevel=True, you’ll receive this notification when Office Automatic Update task runs on its scheduled time, even if there’s no update available. Unfortunately, there’s no option to disable this notification.

Regards,

Neha

Answer 2

Hi Neha,

I had the updates configured accordingly already. Updates are found, so no problem there. My issue is purely with user notification.

What I'd expect is that when the new update is downloaded to the client computer a popup would appear to inform the user that the update is ready to be installed.

When I set the scheduled task to DisplayLevel=False the user is not notified at all. It shouldn't be the users task to check himself if there are new updates available or not.

With DisplayLevel=True the user will be notified, if new updates are available, but also every time when the task runs, which is more than once per user session, that there is no update (You're up to date!) which is very annoying.

Alex

Answer 3

Hi Alex,

Please make sure you have followed the correct steps mentioned in the following article:

Configure update settings for Office 365 ProPlus

Thanks,

Neha