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 Офіс 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 і натисніть Далі;

4. Choose preferred Supported Platforms, click Далі;

5. At Settings, click Новачок;

6. Leave by default (Registry value) і натисніть Browse;

7. Перейдіть до HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration\ вибрати CDNBaseUrl key and select an option The selected registry value must exist on client devices. Натисніть добре;

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

8. Перейдіть до the Compliance Rules вкладка;

9. Remove existing rules and click Новачок;

10. Зміна 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 добре;

11. Натисніть добре;

12. For Settings, click Далі;

13. For Compliance Rules, click Nдоп;

14. For Summary, click Далі;

15. When complete, click Закрити;

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. Натисніть добре;

20. Натисніть добре;

21. Last step, deploy configuration baseline. Select the newly created baseline, Right Mouse Button click, and select Розгорнути;

22. Set checkmarks (see screenshot), select target Collection, configure a schedule and click добре;

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