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Become an Insider: be one of the first to explore new Microsoft 365 features for you and your business. Office Insider Release Notes. Become an Insider: be one of the first to explore new Microsoft 365 features for you and your business. Office Insider Release Notes. Skip to main content. It now takes 40 seconds to update our biggest model. Thank you so much for your dedication to the Mac platform! “ – Paul Ljucovic, SVP Finance and Operations, Asics Canada. We believe with 64-bit version of Mac Office (released in Sept. 2016) and with the multithreaded processing enabled, Excel for Mac 2016 version 16 is the fastest ever! For information about the features, security updates, and non-security updates that are included in a given release of Office for Mac, see Release notes for Office for Mac. For early access to new releases, join the Office Insider program.

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its Office Insider Program for Windows desktop, Windows 10 Mobile, Android and Mac. Since then, the company has consistently been releasing updates for its program on all the aforementioned programs.

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After releasing an update for Office Insider Slow build for Mac last month, Microsoft has now announced the August feature update as well, which is available to Insider Slow participants. The version number of this build is 15.25 (160806), and while it appears to be only a small bump in terms of version numbers - keeping in view that build 15.24 was released in July - it brings a variety of new features.

For consumers with new or upgraded Outlook accounts, the company has introduced simplified summary cards in emails and calendars to stay on top of deliveries and travel information.

Additionally, Microsoft is also making it easier to get someone's attention with '@mentions' to Outlook mail. If the sender types '@' followed by a person's name in the body of the email, the name will be highlighted and their address automatically added to the 'To' line of the email.

The company is also facilitating consumers in the usage of Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing users to make slides more dynamic with animated background images. On user demand, Microsoft has also removed warnings about feature loss when saving a CSV file. However, all of the aforementioned features require a valid Office 365 subscription.

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That said, Microsoft has new features in store for people who don't have an Office 365 subscription as well. The company has introduced 'Accessibility Checker', which finds and fixes accessibility issues with documents, spreadsheets, or presentations.

The Redmond giant is also allowing users to suggest features in Outlook or vote for other suggestions by clicking on Help >Suggest a Feature. With regards to stylus settings in OneNote, users now have the ability to switch to drawing mode or keep using it as a mouse. Finally, Microsoft has also 'polished up' the 64-bit version of Office 2016 for Mac based on 'early Insider feedback'.

The company has noted that you'll soon be prompted to update, if you haven't already. It has also cautioned that if you use Office 2016 at work, the availability of the aforementioned features is subject to your company's update policies.

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Source: Microsoft

Update: for a quick way to do this with PowerShell see: blog here

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As discussed in this post, Understanding Office Click-to-Run, Branches, MSI and Skype for Business Client Versions, Office 2016 Click to Run is released in 5 “Channels” (previously branches)

2 for normal users:

  • Current Channel (previously called Current) (Current)
  • Deferred Channel (previously Current Branch for Business) (Business)

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And 2 for validation/testing:

  • Office Insider Fast (Insiderfast) – weekly builds, not generally supported
  • First Release Channel (FirstReleaseCurrent) – the preview of the current branch, this is the “pre-release” of current
  • First Release for Deferred Channel (previously First Release for Current Branch for Business) (Validation) – the preview of the business branch

The current channel gets feature and security updates monthly and is the default for Home installs

Deferred Channel (the default for enterprises) gets security updates monthly but only gets feature updates every 4 months, giving businesses more time to assess the impact of any changes. There is also a branch for business to test the upcoming Deferred Channel, the catchily titled “First Release for Deferred Channel”

Office 365 “First Release” Channel (Office Insider Slow), is essentially a preview of the current channel, with build updates once or twice a month. Finally Office Insider Fast offers weekly unsupported builds with all the latest features

You can define the branch of an install at point of install with the Office Deployment Tool which uses an XML file to customise the install and optionally set the branch, for example, this XML sets the install to the Deferred Channel

You can also choose your channel by setting a registry key and/or you can set you branch by GPO, including setting it by GPO on the local machine.

Note, changing the channel “down” for example from FirstReleaseCurrent to Current does not seem to cause office to “roll back” from the newer build to the current build for that branch.

Setting Office Click to Run Channel via the Registry

Here is the registry key to choose a channel (Thanks to Kyle in the comments!)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPolicies

Microsoft
office16.0commonofficeupdate

Value name: updatebranch
Value type: REG_SZ

Set the value to:

  • Insiderfast (Office Insider Fast)
  • FirstReleaseCurrent (for First Release Branch/Office Insider Slow)
  • Current (for Current)
  • Validation (for First Release for Deferred Channel)
  • Business (for Deferred Channel)
Roll Back Office 2016 Slow Insider Update For Mac

Setting Office Click to Run Channel via Group Policy

Here is how to set it for a machine using a local GPO, i.e. it can be configured on the local machine with administrator access.

First, download the Office 2016 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML). Mpeg download for mac.

When you run it, it will extract the following files:

  • Copy the .amdx files files from the admx folder to C:WindowsPolicyDefinitions
  • Copy the ADML files the relevant language folder, e.g. en-us, to the relevant folder on your system e.g. C:WindowsPolicyDefinitionsen-US
Slow

You technically only need office16.admx and office16.adml to set the branch

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Do a gpupdate/force under CMD as an administrator

Download mac os x el capitan torrent. Run gpedit.msc and fine the Administrative Template for Office 2016 then Updates and set the Update Channel to one of the following, in order of most up to date to least

  • Insiderfast (Office Insider Fast)
  • FirstReleaseCurrent (for First Release Branch/Office Insider Slow)
  • Current (for Current)
  • Validation (for First Release for Deferred Channel)
  • Business (for Deferred Channel)

After another gpupdate, my install previously on the Deferred Channel was ready for an update