Office 2024 Updates

[Jawloms]

How are people managing Office 2024 Updates?

[supportman]

We just roll out the setup.exe file with an xml configuration with 1 click PDQ deployment but you can do it with the command line as well.

 

Here is our XML

 

 

Its basically just click and forget to upgrade from any version of office.

[Jawloms]

Sorry, I mean updates and patches which update Office 2024 when MS fix bugs etc. WSUS can't do it, so how do people distribute them and then keep an eye on which ones are falling behind with security patches.

[supportman]

Sorry, I mean updates and patches which update Office 2024 when MS fix bugs etc. WSUS can't do it, so how do people distribute them and then keep an eye on which ones are falling behind with security patches.

 

Isn't it just part of windows update? We just set it to update automatically.

[Jawloms]

Yes it is, but that doesn't show which devices are up to date and more importantly, which aren't.

[mavhc]

https://config.office.com/officeSettings/MPmecChannel shows the status of your clients

[Jawloms]

Thanks for this, however it doesn't at the moment because;

 

Service degradation for Cloud Update

Impacting regions

All Regions

Status

Mitigated

Incident date/time

02/12/2025 09:06:00 PM

Last Updated

02/13/2025 11:15:00 PM

Description

We have identified an issue that is impacting multiple customers in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. Customers that are impacted may see an issue with the Cloud Update page and their waves showing no results. In addition, the Overview page may show 0% updated. The root cause has been identified, and mitigation steps are under way.

Lastest update - 02/13/2025 11:15:00 PM

Mitigated

Updated - 02/12/2025 09:06:00 PM

Mitigation In progress

[TwistedHelixis]

https://config.office.com/officeSettings/MPmecChannel shows the status of your clients

 

What if we don't use 365, but do use Office LTSC?