Erwin Bierens

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Upgrade your Office 365 ProPlus to 64-bit

2019-04-22 2 min read Office365 Erwin Bierens
Why should I upgrade? Recently Microsoft started to recommend its 64-bit edition of the Office 365 pro plus suite to be installed as the default Office installation. Office ProPlus and Office 2019 will now be installed with 64-bit as the default setting. Previously, the default setting was 32-bit at installation. This change will begin rolling out in mid-January, 2019. / Message from admin center office 365 Office ProPlus and Office 2019 will now be installed with 64-bit as the default setting. Continue reading

Switch Office 2016 to Monthly Targeted Channel

2018-03-19 1 min read Office365 Erwin Bierens
Office 365 The Office 365 ProPlus update model supports 4 production channels; Monthly Channel (Targeted), Monthly Channel, Semi-annual Channel (Targeted), Semi-annual Channel. Each channel receives features updates, security and non-security updates on different release intervals. / Switch Channels Below are the steps to switch channels: Identify the channel which you would like to switch to. Features and updates by channel are documented here. Launch Command Prompt as an administrator. Navigate to “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun" Run the following command to change the desired channel, let’s say Monthly Channel Targeted “OfficeC2RClient. Continue reading