Microsoft Office for Mac Updates problem Do Not apply release 16.17 to Office 2016!

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Current correct version for Office 2016 for mac is 16.16.2 This version (16.17 is for 2019 )
https://macadmins.software/

If you apply this release to 2016, it will Bork Outlook 2016 Pro Plus and cause the end user to register this product as a Subscription version .

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I posted a little about this in the #macos channel of BigFix Slack earlier. Reproduced here in case it’s helpful for folks. We don’t have MDM at my org, so this was my BigFix-y solution:

  1. Create a plist with the contents here: https://github.com/talkingmoose/Microsoft-Office-2016-for-Mac-Management/blob/master/AutoUpdate/Disable%20AutoUpdate/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist
  2. Use mcxToProfile (https://github.com/timsutton/mcxToProfile/) to make it a .mobileconfig
  3. Use Apple Configurator to sign it with my org’s developer cert
  4. Use BigFix to install it via the profiles command
  5. Use this relevance to determine if it’s there: not exists file "/Library/Managed Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist" whose (string "HowToCheck" of dictionary of it = "Manual")