do i need to upgrade ms office for mac os

#Do i need to upgrade ms office for mac os install#

(It is written to, but then removed again shortly after.) The result is that users will get the new alert every time MAU checks for updates in the background. However we got confirmation from Microsoft’s Diksha Mehta in the MacAdmins Slack on Friday that a bug in the code is preventing the new preference key from being written to disk properly. MAU is supposed to only display this new Notification Center Alert once for each round of updates, meaning that users should only see it once per month. Clicking the question mark shows that a minimum of 10.13.0 is required with another Upgrade Now link.

#Do i need to upgrade ms office for mac os install#

The GUI now displays a prominent message that there is a “MacOS Upgrade Required” to install the latest Office updates. In the Alert, users can either Learn More, Upgrade Now or click the dialog to open MAU itself. The new behavior in MAU 4.17 includes the aforementioned Notification Center Alert (above), as well as a notice in the MAU GUI itself. Thankfully it is possible to do so with a configuration profile, read on for the details. While most admins should focus their efforts on upgrading computers to a newer version of macOS, in environments where computers must remain on Sierra or older, suppressing this dialog is desired. This obviously presents a problem in managed environments where end users are not able to upgrade themselves directly though the App Store.

What did come as a surprise was a new Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) alert encouraging users to upgrade to macOS Catalina. This came as no surprise to MacAdmins as the Office for Mac team announced the N-2 macOS support plan back on Sept.

Microsoft Office officially dropped support for macOS 10.12 Sierra last week with the release of the 16.31 updates.