You can read more about the different Office app update channels on Microsoft Docs.
You’ll find the ability to change your update channel by choosing File>Account, underneath the Office Updates section.
To change between the different versions of Office available, you need to be running the subscription version of Microsoft 365 rather than Office 2016 or Office 2019. Change between Office Beta (Insider), Current Channel, Monthly and Semi-Annual Enterprise Channels on demand Instead you need to switch on the Preview mode in the client separately. Team’s release process is different to the Office client, meaning you can’t just install a particular build to see new features. Teams received the ability to allow people to opt-in to Preview late last year, and new features are consistently released to Preview first allowing you to try out new features ahead of everyone else. In February, a new feature arrived providing a Group Policy setting (and local registry setting) to provide people the ability to switch between the two directly within the Office client. Office already had the ability for an administrator to choose which people or machines were included in different update channels via policy, although this was a central setting and a user couldn’t opt-in or opt-out themselves. Find out how to switch this on for your copy of Office and Teams, and how as an admin you can enable this for your users. Fingers crossed.įor those wondering how long they can continue to use older, locally installed versions of Microsoft's Office apps and still get security fixes from Microsoft for them for free (under Extended Support), Office 2007 with Service Pack 3 is supported until October 2017 Office 2010 with Service Pack 2 is supported until October 2020 and Office 2013 is supported until April 2023.Two recent updates for Microsoft Teams and Office (Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise) allow you to self-select whether you want to use Beta (Insider) features and Teams Preview features. I applied this fix myself yesterday and so far, no more popups. Then, in the File Download dialog box, click Run or Open, and follow the steps in the fix wizard."
In the meantime, customers can turn off the notification by first clicking here. The team is actively working to identify the right frequency and are also evaluating ways to make adjusting the notification simple based on customer feedback. A spokesperson provided the following statement: "The notification is meant to provide existing Office 365 subscribers who are using an older version of Office an easy way to upgrade to Office 2016.
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