Posted on β05-12-2021 06:45 AM
By default, when an Office 2019 app is installed, Microsoft AutoUpdate will automatically launch. I don't want that to happen (we handle patching Office apps through a patch policy in Jamf), but I'm having little luck.
As part of our Office 2019 deployment policy, I have a script that runs prior to the installation to populate a few settings in /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist. I'm setting things like HowToCheck to "Manual" and disabling the data collection policy prompt, but another option that I'm adding is IgnoreUIOpenAfterInstall. That's a relatively new option for MAU which, according to Microsoft's release notes, was added in the fall of 2020. That's supposed to do what I want, not launch MAU after Office is installed.
Problem is, I can't find any documentation about that option anywhere, just that it was added. I'm trying to set it with a boolean value of TRUE, but it doesn't work -- MAU still launches. It's also not listed in any of the MAU preference references (like this one), possibly because it's relatively new.
Has anyone gotten this preference option working?
Posted on β04-19-2022 09:38 AM
I had the same issue and used Restricted Software for both Microsoft AutoUpdate & Microsoft Update Assistant.
I scope it to a temporary smart group so that I doesn't interfere with my onboarding workflow.