Hi all,
aside from the question if Auto Updates are good or not I am interested in whether Office 2016 Auto Updater needs Admin rights or not when set to "Auto Update&Install".
Someone who actually tested this?
Thanks
Thomas
Question
Office 2016 Auto Updates need Admin Rights?
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+10Its running as a LaunchDaemon so it shouldn't.
#!/bin/bash
defaults write com.microsoft.autoupdate2 HowToCheck AutomaticDownload
+36As of version 3.6 (I believe), Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) doesn't need the current user who's running the tool to be an admin.
MAU has a privileged helper tool that allows it to install the updates with elevated privileges.
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