This policy setting controls whether updates from the Office Update Site are applied.
If you enable this policy setting, the "Check for Updates" menu and task pane items are disabled and 2007 Office applications cannot obtain updates from the Office Update site.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, updates from the Office Update Site are available.
Important - Recent testing of this policy setting determined that it did not function as expected.
Registry Hive | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\Common\OfficeUpdate |
Value Name | BlockUpdates |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Enabled Value | 1 |
Disabled Value | 0 |