


First Release for Deferred Channel (previously First Release for Current Branch for Business) (Validation) – the preview of the business branch.First Release Channel (FirstReleaseCurrent) – the preview of the current branch, this is the “pre-release” of current.Office Insider Fast (Insiderfast) – weekly builds, not generally supported.Deferred Channel (previously Current Branch for Business) (Business).Current Channel (previously called Current) (Current).

If you'd rather only run monthly replace 0 14 * * 3 with 0 14 1 * *, but there's no real reason to.Update: for a quick way to do this with PowerShell see: blog hereĪs discussed in this post, Understanding Office Click-to-Run, Branches, MSI and Skype for Business Client Versions, Office 2016 Click to Run is released in 5 “Channels” (previously branches)

It won't run if your laptop's off though (solutions here) although it only needs to run once every few attempts. To schedule with crontab type sudo crontab -e in Terminal (or iTerm etc), press i, and enter the following to run this every Wednesday at 2pm: # min hour day_of_month month day_of_week commandĠ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"ġ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist"Ģ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist"Īpple recommends another way to schedule on MacOS. Another thread suggests it is run after missing 3 updates. If so these commands will need running every 90 days. One thread suggests the nag is run after 90 days without an update. Ppowerpoint: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist" Word: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"Įxcel: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist" This seems to have worked for me - extracted this from the ResetUpdateMessage script on William's answer.
