Office 2016 Auto Updates need Admin Rights?

[bmgsupport]

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

[cubandave]

Its running as a LaunchDaemon so it shouldn't.

#!/bin/bash

defaults write com.microsoft.autoupdate2 HowToCheck AutomaticDownload

[talkingmoose]

As 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.

[bmgsupport]

Thanks guys, much appreciated.