Question: Office 365 Patching

[kintaroju]

Hi Roger,

I am wondering if there is a way to see Office 365 updates under "Inventory\All Updates"? The only way I am able to see what flavor is to check "Inventory\Installed Software" and then check the version number again Microsoft Office 365 clients. If you can help me figure if there is a better way to view the version/build (indicating month of release) that would be awesome, thanks!

Cheers

[rzander]

O365 is a conatiner, there are no updates like with MSI versions of Office. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-of-the-update-process-for-office-365-proplus With ConfigMgr, you will deploy a full O365 installation every month (unless you are using express updates, or update directly from Microsoft)...

[kintaroju]

Hi Roger,

Thanks for confirming my thoughts on this. You think you'll put something in the future to make it more obvious for other people what patch level Office 365 could be at?

[SeT911]

Hello, i was seen some updates visible in Inventory\All Updates with the error message that update is downloaded only 50%

Anyway i try to make a script that shows me what and how much is downloaded on the computer Unfortunately the console didn't return all the info.

Here is it:

$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue" function Get-Size { param([string]$pth) "{0:n2}" -f ((gci -path $pth -recurse | measure-object -property length -sum).sum /1mb) + " mb" } function Get-Finfo { Get-ChildItem 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\Updates' get-size 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\Updates' get-childitem 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Updates\Download\PackageFiles' get-size 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Updates\Download\PackageFiles' } Get-Finfo

If i run this locally or with psremote session it is showing the correct info, but if i select it as script from drop down menu it`s returning me only this:

$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue" function Get-Size { param([string]$pth) "{0:n2}" -f ((gci -path $pth -recurse | measure-object -property length -sum).sum /1mb) + " mb" } function Get-Finfo { Get-ChildItem 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\Updates' get-size 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\Updates' get-childitem 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Updates\Download\PackageFiles' get-size 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Updates\Download\PackageFiles' } Get-Finfo 16.0.11328.20468

Can you tell me why it is not returning the output correctly ?\ Thanks.

[SCCMAdmin]

@kintaroju I understand this issue but unsure how to solve it. I recently started delivering Office 365 Updates using SCCM. As @rzander says, the entire source is moved around (around 2.1GB these days) and then the mechanism only takes the delta bytes it needs. In CCCM under All Updates, you don't clearly see what level the PC is at when the update is applied or before the update is applied. What CCCM does fine is when the update is available and not yet run it correctly appears in Pending Updates (near All Updates). I don't think CCCM can solve this in my personal thinking.

I too, resolve to looking at Installed Software and checking the version number. You learn most of these by heart after a little while seeing many of them. Plus one of my web favourites is the version page at Microsoft. Feels like I open that site every few days.

[SCCMAdmin]

@kintaroju and @rzander I think this issue can be closed. :-)

Using 1.0.6.1 you can see the Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise updates (and Office 365 ProPlus naming before) under All Updates. Connect to a system. Go to Inventory > All Updates. Uncheck "Hide duplicates" You will now see all updates (unique IDs all shown) If easier, continue with: Show Missing Updates.

I can see right now for example:

Let me know how you go. :-)

[SCCMAdmin]

Notice that showing all and unchecking hide duplicates show a lot of stuff that is the 365 patching journey but mostly useless.

This is why clicking Show missing updates is cleaner. It's what you are really interested in.