Policy

Hide option to enable or disable updates

This policy setting allows you to hide the user interface (UI) options to enable or disable Office automatic updates from users. These options are found in the Product Information area of all Office applications installed via Click-to-Run. This policy setting has no effect on Office applications installed via Windows Installer. If you enable this policy setting, the Enable Update and Disable Updates options in the UI are hidden from users. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Enable Update and Disable Updates options are visible, and users can enable or disable Office automatic updates from the UI.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Office 2016 (Machine) / Updates
Policy ID 4d1e5dd2b587
Internal name L_HideEnableDisableUpdates

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate\hideenabledisableupdates (enabled) = 1
HKLM\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate\hideenabledisableupdates (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to hide the user interface (UI) options to enable or disable Office automatic updates from users. These options are found in the Product Information area of all Office applications installed via Click-to-Run. This policy setting has no effect on Office applications installed via Windows Installer. If you enable this policy setting, the Enable Update and Disable Updates options in the UI are hidden from users. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Enable Update and Disable Updates options are visible, and users can enable or disable Office automatic updates from the UI.

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