Just ran into this same issue today.
I had a user ask why they weren't being prompted for the update because they saw online that version 15.19 was available.
As soon as I opened MS Update and clicked the join insider program option I was prompted to update all apps to 15.19.0.
Catching up on JAMF threads, apologies in advance if this was already answered, but this is what we are doing to disable the option.
Notice below, if the box was already enabled, and we uncheck and grey it out, it doesn't actually disable the function. Will circle back and update this if I find out how to really disable it.
This should do it, if user hasn't already enabled it.
#!/bin/sh
# Users above UID 500
over500=`dscl . list /Users UniqueID | awk '$2 > 500 { print $1 }'`
## Disable early adapter checkbox at Local level
/usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2 DisableInsiderCheckbox -bool "true" 2>/dev/null
/usr/bin/killall cfprefsd
## Disable early adapter checkbox for all users
for u in $over500 ;
do
/usr/bin/defaults write /Users/"$u"/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2 DisableInsiderCheckbox -bool "true" 2>/dev/null
/usr/sbin/chown "$u" /Users/"$u"/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist 2>/dev/null
/usr/bin/killall cfprefsd
done
exit 0(yea, the killall cfprefsd is prolly redundant but doesn't hurt)
If your users don't have admin rights it's a moot issue anyway...
HTH,
Don
@bentoms thanks for the Python command
i'd like to create an EA from it but it seems that unless it's run as the user it returns None,
With the check box ticked and Office Insider Fast enabled if i run the command as the user it returns InsiderFast but running it as root returns None, i also tested it in an EA and i get None returned.
can anyone suggest the best way to run an EA as the user ?
