How to Change Office 365 Update Channel with SCCM Compliance Settings. Use the compliance settings in SCCM to change the update channel in Office 365 ProPlus by changing CDNBaseUrl in the registry. Tested with SCCM 1702 Current Branch.
Change Office 365 Update Channel
1. Open SCCM Console and navigate to Asset and Compliance – Compliance Settings – Configuration Items;
2. Click in the upper menu or Right Mouse Button click and select Create Configuration Item;
3. Enter your Name and click Next;
4. Choose preferred Supported Platforms, click Next;
5. At Settings, click New;
6. Leave by default (Registry value) and click Browse;
7. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration\ select CDNBaseUrl key and select an option The selected registry value must exist on client devices. Click OK;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration\
8. Navigate to the Compliance Rules tab;
9. Remove existing rules and click New;
10. Change Equals the following values to your URL, set check-mark Remediate noncompliant rules when supported;
List of all Office 365 ProPlus Update Channels URLs:
- Monthly Targeted: “http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256afe-f5d9-4f86-8936-8840a6a4f5be”
- Monthly: “http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/492350f6-3a01-4f97-b9c0-c7c6ddf67d60”
- Semi-Annual Targeted: “http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/b8f9b850-328d-4355-9145-c59439a0c4cf”
- Semi-Annual: “http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/7ffbc6bf-bc32-4f92-8982-f9dd17fd3114”
When complete, click OK;
11. Click OK;
12. For Settings, click Next;
13. For Compliance Rules, click Next;
14. For Summary, click Next;
15. When complete, click Close;
16. Now we will create the Configuration Baseline and add the previously created Configuration Item. Right Mouse Button click on Configuration Baselines and select Create Configuration Baselines;
17. Click on Add and select Configuration Items;
18. Select the early created configuration item and click Add;
19. Click OK;
20. Click OK;
21. Last step, deploy configuration baseline. Select the newly created baseline, Right Mouse Button click, and select Deploy;
22. Set checkmarks (see screenshot), select target Collection, configure a schedule and click OK;
23. On the client side, you can evaluate this configuration on-demand or wait for scheduling time.
There’s now a new Monthly Enterprise Channel available. I’ve already gone ahead and updated my existing Monthly (Current) Baselines to use the new Monthly Enterprise Channel. I’ve confirmed the CDN has changed on the clients and the new updates are available in my Software Update Group, but the clients aren’t downgrading to the new Channel. Does anyone know the expected behavior for this use case?
The configuration to the registers has been done, however, I miss the possibility to update the client somehow. In addition, if I use a baseline to change the channel from “insider” to “monthly”, I can’t even make a change with a manual update. Any ideas, please?