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Disabled Automatic Updates but still updating

Dane Briggs 211 Reputation points
2022-07-19T14:30:47.917+00:00

We are trying to disable Automatic Updates for Office 365 as we use a 3rd party tool to manage all of our workstation/office patches. I have a group policy that disables Windows Updates and Office 365 update but we are still getting prompted to update Office. How do we stop the automatic updates?

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We are currently on Office 365 Version 2204

Windows Updates are disabled
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Office365 Updates are disabled

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  1. Nadeem Akhtar Mohmand 86 Reputation points Student Ambassador
    2023-02-10T18:34:57.7433333+00:00

    Open Run and type (services.msc) then on the list find windows updated, double click it and stop the current update and also turn the Manual Trigging to disabled.

  2. Dane Briggs 211 Reputation points
    2022-07-26T17:00:34.633+00:00

    Found additional registry entry that needed to be updated. Once that registry entry was updated automatic updates stopped.

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\cloud\office\16.0\Common\officeupdate
    DWORD: EnableAutomaticUpdates
    Values:
    0 = automatic updates are disabled
    1 = automatic updates are enabled

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\cloud\office\16.0\Common\officeupdate\ignoregpo
    0 = automatic updates are disabled
    1 = automatic updates are enabled

    1 person found this answer helpful.
  3. Dane Briggs 211 Reputation points
    2022-07-20T16:34:41.657+00:00

    Seems that disabling the "Office Automatic Updates 2.0" scheduled task has stopped the prompting
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    However the "Update Now" option is still available even though the registry is set correctly from everything that I've read
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    To remove the 'Update Now' button, you will need to disable automatic updates.
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\OfficeUpdate
    DWORD: EnableAutomaticUpdates
    Values:
    0 = automatic updates are disabled
    1 = automatic updates are enabled

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  4. Ceasar Chen_MSFT 4,391 Reputation points
    2022-07-20T01:22:01.267+00:00

    Hi, @Dane Briggs
    Is accepting updates for other Microsoft products turned off in Windows Updates?
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