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You can have other check boxes selected in the Products and Classifications tabs. Next, synchronize software updates. If you don't do that, you won't see the updates in the console and the updates won't be available to deploy. For more information about how to synchronize software updates, see Introduction to software updates in Configuration Manager. If you use more than one method, the Group Policy setting determines the final configuration. To enable Configuration Manager to manage Office updates on specific computers by using client policy, do the following steps:.

For more information, see About client settings in Configuration Manager. You can enable Configuration Manager to manage Office updates on specific computers by using Group Policy. You can apply this setting to multiple computers, an organizational unit OU , or a domain. Enable the Management of Microsoft Apps for enterprise policy setting.

You can use the latest version of the Office Deployment Tool to configure Office to receive updates from Configuration Manager.

To configure this capability, use a text editor, such as Notepad, to modify the configuration file for the Office Deployment Tool. We recommend that you also set the value of the Enabled attribute to True in the Updates element, which is the default setting.

The scheduled task Office Automatic Updates 2. That task initiates product configuration tasks such as channel management. If it meets your business and technical requirements, we recommend updating your client devices automatically from the Office CDN. To enable a device to receive updates from the Office CDN instead of from Configuration Manager, use one of the following methods:.

Disable the Management of Microsoft Apps for enterprise policy setting. For more information about notifications from Microsoft Apps, see End-user update notifications for Microsoft Apps.

Starting in version , you can configure the end-user notification experience for Microsoft Apps updates. The Enable update notifications from Microsoft Apps option was added to the Software Updates group of client settings. For more information about this setting and the user notification experience, see About client settings in Configuration Manager. You can add support for Configuration Manager to download updates for any languages that are supported by Microsoft Apps. Starting in Configuration Manager version , the update workflow separates the 38 languages for Windows Update from the numerous additional languages for Office Client Update.

To select the necessary languages, use the Language Selection page in the following locations:. Add the needed languages for Microsoft Apps, then choose OK. When new languages are added to Microsoft Apps they don't appear in the content download languages, you can add them if needed.

Use the following procedure on the software update point at the central administration site or stand-alone primary site:. From a command prompt, type wbemtest as an administrative user to open the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester. In the results pane, double-click the object with the site code for the central administration site or stand-alone primary site.

Starting at the first query result, open each object until you find the one with AvailableUpdateLanguagesForO for the PropertyName property. Select Value2 and choose Edit Property. Add additional languages to the Value2 property and select Save Property. For example, for en-gb , for es-mx , and for fr-ca , you would type , , for the example languages.

When you download Microsoft Apps updates, the updates are downloaded in the languages that you select in the wizard and configured in this procedure. To verify that the updates download in the correct languages, go to the package source for the update and find files with the new language code in the filename. When using Install Software Updates task sequence step to Install Microsoft Apps updates, it is possible that deployed updates will be detected as not applicable.

This might happen if the scheduled Office Automatic Updates task hasn't run at least once see the note in Deploy Microsoft Apps updates. For example, this might happen if Microsoft Apps was installed immediately before running this step. To ensure that the update channel is set so that deployed updates will be properly detected, use one of the following methods:. On a machine with the same version of Microsoft Apps, open Task Scheduler taskschd.

If Microsoft Apps is installed as part of the same task sequence, make sure this step runs after Office is installed. In the command line field, enter the command line that will run the scheduled task. See example below making sure the string in quotes matches the path and name of the task identified in step 1.

When Office ProPlus was renamed to Microsoft Apps for enterprise , the update channels were also renamed. If you use an automatic deployment rule ADR to deploy updates, you'll need to make changes to your ADRs if they rely on the Title property. That's because the name of update packages in the Microsoft Update Catalog is changing.

Currently, the title of an update package for Office ProPlus begins with "Office Client Update" as seen in the following example:. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information.