How to Change Office 365 Update Channel with SCCM Compliance Settings

How to Change Office 365 Update Channel with SCCM Compliance Settings. Use the compliance settings in SCCM to change the update channel in Birou 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. Intră your Name și faceți clic Next;

4. Choose preferred Supported Platforms, clic Next;

5. At Settings, clic Nou;

6. Leave by default (Registry value) și faceți clic Browse;

7. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration\ selecta CDNBaseUrl key and select an option The selected registry value must exist on client devices. Click Bine;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration\

8. Navigate to the Compliance Rules tab;

9. Remove existing rules and click Nou;

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, clic Bine;

11. Click Bine;

12. For Settings, clic Next;

13. For Compliance Rules, click Next;

14. For Summary, clic Next;

15. When complete, clic 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 Bine;

20. Click Bine;

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 Bine;

23. On the client side, you can evaluate this configuration on-demand or wait for scheduling time.