How to know & change the update path of MS Office LTSC 2021.

Question

Our client is planning for upgrade MS Office to MS Office LTSC 2021 for nearly 13,000 PCs and 2,000 Notebooks.

When we testing the MS Office LTSC 2021, we find that the monthly security update method is difference with MS Office 2016. We cannot find any KB file for update though WSUS or off-line patch file.

In the general document (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/ltsc2021/update#configure-where-office-ltsc-2021-gets-updates-from). we cannot apply the "connect CDN directly" or "Microsoft Configuration Manager" as client is using closing network with out MCM.

We would like to know more detail for the remained method, "share folder".

If those 13,000 PCs get the update share from share folder, (say headquarter) at same time, this is impossible the network bandwidth issue.

Since 13,000 client PCs are located in over 300 site offices, we design create the share folder in one PC of each site office (say share PC).

And than, All PCs to get the update source from share folder of their site's "share PC".

As PCs are floating, it may relocate to another office for business operation, we are difference use AD to control management.

Any Brother can provide more information such as registry key or xml file for control management.

Answer 1

Hi,

You can configure the UpdatePath and setting to set the update from shared folder. For example, if you want to get updates automatically from a network share called \server\updates, you'd include the following line in your configuration.xml file:

<Updates Enabled="TRUE" UpdatePath="\\server\updates" />

This will help you specific the update folder for clients:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/updates/configure-update-settings-microsoft-365-apps

If you need the host to automatically install and update files to a shared folder, this may require you to set up a schedule to help you run the downloaded command every once in a while.

setup /download configuration.xml

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/ltsc2021/deploy

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Answer 2

What is the top level folder within the update path share? i.e. If the share is \\<server>\<share>\

Is the "Office" folder created when downloading files to be the top level folder?

Thanks