In Windows 10, if you’ve installed other Microsoft products, such Office, you can allow or prevent automatic updates for those products. Windows Update can provide updates for these other Microsoft products installed on your system, if you allow.
By this, when your update your system, other Microsoft products installed will be update automatically. This will save your time and keep your machine safe with latest software installed. Here’s how you can configure automatic updates for other products in Windows 10.
How To Allow/Prevent Update For Other Microsoft Products In Windows 10
Method 1 – Via Settings App
1. Right click Start Button or press
2. In the Settings app, navigate to Update & Security > Windows Update.
3. Now in right pane of Windows Update, click on Advanced options link.
4. Next, set Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows option to On, so that you get updates for other Microsoft products installed on machine.
The setting will be applied immediately. You can now close Settings app.
Let us see how to make this possible via registry manipulation.
Method 2 – Via Registry
Registry Disclaimer: The further steps will involve registry manipulation. Making mistakes while manipulating registry could affect your system adversely. So be careful while editing registry entries and create a System Restore point first.
1.
Press
2. In left pane of Registry Editor window, navigate to following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU3. Now in the right pane of AU registry key, right click in blank space, select New > DWORD Value. Name the newly created registry DWORD (REG_DWORD) as AllowMUUpdateService. This registry DWORD can be used to allow/prevent updates for other Microsoft products installed in Windows 10. Double click on this registry DWORD to modify its Value data:
4. Finally, set the Value data to 1 and click OK to allow updates for other Microsoft products installed in Windows 10. Close Registry Editor and reboot to make changes effective.
That’s it!
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Normally products like Office are updated through Windows update. This needs to be enabled in the Windows update settings before it will show any of the non Windows updates. If the checkbox for "Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows" is grayed out and unselectable in Windows 10 then try the following: First add a version to the OS layer
and activate the layer. You can use one of the runipkwin10.cmd scripts to do this. (This can likely be done in the Office layer but this was not tested) Instructions
Finalize the OS layer
Now add a version to the Office layer.
Go to run, type gpedit.msc
Navigate to Computer Configurations--Administrative Templates--Windows Components--Windows Update
In the right hand window select 'Configure Automatic Updates' -- Set it to 'Not configured' Click apply.
Now Click on Start--Settings--Update & security--Windows Update, Click on Check for updates, Once it finishes saying 'Your device is up to date', Click Advanced options.
'Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows' should now be available.
Source for this fix:
//answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/cannot-set-option-to-include-office-updates-in/30d14904-9799-46d1-9279-d2c537a0235a