Updating Office 2019 when using different versions?
Hello,
In our organization we have a mix of three different Office 2019 licenses, which are a combination of Microsoft Action Pack on Professional Plus, Microsoft Open Volume on Professional Plus, and Retail licenses on just Professional (NOT Plus). I have found that all three of them appear to be on completely different update channels by default. I know that the Volume License version can only be on the "Perpetual" channel as well.
I would like to get all three versions on some form of the same channel but I'm honestly not sure if this is even possible. Has anyone ran into this before in a mixed Office 2019 environment, and if so, how do you go about trying to keep them all on the same channel for updates? I have come to realize that running a mixed environment of newer Office versions is a complete nightmare.
Thank you
In our organization we have a mix of three different Office 2019 licenses, which are a combination of Microsoft Action Pack on Professional Plus, Microsoft Open Volume on Professional Plus, and Retail licenses on just Professional (NOT Plus). I have found that all three of them appear to be on completely different update channels by default. I know that the Volume License version can only be on the "Perpetual" channel as well.
I would like to get all three versions on some form of the same channel but I'm honestly not sure if this is even possible. Has anyone ran into this before in a mixed Office 2019 environment, and if so, how do you go about trying to keep them all on the same channel for updates? I have come to realize that running a mixed environment of newer Office versions is a complete nightmare.
Thank you
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PerpetualVL2019 is for volume licence only.
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Correct, I was just wondering if any of the Monthly or Semi-Annual channels received updates at the same pace as the PerpetualVL2019 channel. Maybe they are completely different and it wouldn't really matter though.
Maybe they are completely different and it wouldn't really matter though.
Yes. They are completely different as you will not get feature updates for volume licence.
“Office 2019 is a perpetually-licensed product similar to previous major versions. It will receive regular security updates but no new features after its release.”
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/troubleshoot/installation/office-perpetual-volume-license-products
Yes. They are completely different as you will not get feature updates for volume licence.
“Office 2019 is a perpetually-licensed product similar to previous major versions. It will receive regular security updates but no new features after its release.”
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/troubleshoot/installation/office-perpetual-volume-license-products
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