How do I change Microsoft 365 ‘Current’ update channel to Enterprise?

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This is a question for Susan Bradley, in view of her article in this week’s AskWoody Plus newsletter, or for anyone else who cares to weigh in.

I read Mark Berry’s post about changing Office updates from Monthly to Semi-Annual, but it’s from an admin perspective. Thirty years ago that was me; now I just maintain a few non-networked Win10 Pro machines running v1909 build 18363.900 with Microsoft 365 Home Build 13001.20266 CLR.

My question is whether the parameters Susan laid out for deferring Office updates in her 2018-2-18 post would apply to my Microsoft 365 Home system that lists the update channel as “Current” not “Monthly” or “Semi Annual” or “Enterprise” for Build 13001.20266 CLR.

I’m not wild about cancelling all Office (er, MS) 365 updates but am doing so until I can find a way to defer all but the security updates.

Thanks,

Will

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Monthly channel was renamed to Current channel in May/June 2020:

Changes to update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps

That Mark Berry blog post isn’t really from an admin perspective until it gets into Group Policy templates and Office Deployment Tool about halfway down.

The method for switching the channel near the top of that page is the same as that detailed by Susan on 2018-2-18. There’s no easier method and it should work just fine for you:

To change to the semi-annual channel, from an administrative command prompt:

cd C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun
OfficeC2RClient.exe /changesetting Channel=Deferred
OfficeC2RClient.exe /update user

That would change you to what is now called the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel.

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Thanks, that’s the method I used and on 3 of 4 PCs it worked as described; an old Optiplex 7100 took some coaxing, though: try, nothing; shut down, restart, redo DOS commands; then inspect Task Manager to see if Office was updating (it was) as there was no other sign of it.

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