You can’t activate version 16.17 or later with an Office 2016 for Mac volume license. Older versions up to and including 16.16 can be activated with an Office 2016 for Mac volume license.

The update history information for version 16.16 and earlier also applies to Office 2016 for Mac, which is also a version of Office for Mac that’s available as a one-time purchase.Starting with the 16.17 release in September 2018, this information also applies to Office 2019 for Mac, which is a version of Office for Mac that’s available as a one-time purchase from a retail store or through a volume licensing agreement.For security reason, Microsoft has deprecated the use of SHA-1.For more information, see Microsoft Teams installations on a Mac. Starting with Version 16.21, Microsoft Teams will be installed by default for new installations if you're using the Office suite install package.If you'd rather only run monthly replace 0 14 * * 3 with 0 14 1 * *, but there's no real reason to.

It won't run if your laptop's off though (solutions here) although it only needs to run once every few attempts. To schedule with crontab type sudo crontab -e in Terminal (or iTerm etc), press i, and enter the following to run this every Wednesday at 2pm: # min hour day_of_month month day_of_week commandĠ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist'ġ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist'Ģ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist'Īpple recommends another way to schedule on MacOS. Another thread suggests it is run after missing 3 updates. If so these commands will need running every 90 days. One thread suggests the nag is run after 90 days without an update. Ppowerpoint: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist' Word: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist'Įxcel: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist' This seems to have worked for me - extracted this from the ResetUpdateMessage script on William's answer.

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