Hide option to enable or disable updates

This policy setting allows you to hide the user interface (UI) options to enable or disable Office automatic updates from users. These options are found in the Product Information area of all Office applications installed via Click-to-Run. This policy setting has no effect on Office applications installed via Windows Installer.

If you enable this policy setting, the Enable Update and Disable Updates options in the UI are hidden from users.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Enable Update and Disable Updates options are visible, and users can enable or disable Office automatic updates from the UI.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate
Value Namehideenabledisableupdates
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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