Where extensive testing is needed in order to comply with regulatory, governmental or organitional requirements, the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel expects to have a new version only twice a year (January and July). If your organization requires a precautionary or more conservative approach to new versions adoption, the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel is the goto channel. In addition, Monthly channel offers two concurrent releases with a month gap between them. When choosing the Monthly Enterprise Channel, take into account also the shorter support lifetime of two months. Together with new versions, every month Current and Monthly Enterprise are going to include security and non-security updates.Ĭurrent Channel is generally 1 version ahead of Monthly Enterprise Channel.įor this reason consider to keep a small portion of users, such as the IT Department and some "friendly users" on Current Channel to test in advance the new version and try the new features.
#Office professional 365 Patch
If you require a more predictable release schedule consider to stay on Monthly Enterprise Channel, that similarly as Current Channel provide a new version once a month but release date is aligned to the Patch Tuesday (the second tuesday of the month). Current channel has at least one release a month (likely more often). Unfortunately the Current Channel does not offer a predictable schedule as others channel do. Microsoft suggests Current Channel as it provides all newest features as soon as they get released. every months Microsoft releases security and non-security updatesĬhannel Considerations Current vs Monthly.
#Office professional 365 update
you can control how often get these new features by speficying the update channel.new and updated features on a regular basis.The following table summarize the name changes mentioned above: Former Name This new update channel was available with version 2003. Together with the new update channel terminology a brand new Monthly Enterprise Channel has been introduced.
The new name took effect with version 2004 onwards.ĭuring the same timeframe on Microsoft announced the rebranding of Update Channels based on a modern management approach. Starting on April 21 2020, Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus has been renamed into Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise. On JMicrosoft Corp announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s newest cloud service bringing together Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service, at a predictable monthly subscription. Here's the list of latest Microsoft 365 Apps versions available based on update channel: Channel
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