If the above method doesn’t work for you, there’s another one posted here. This can be every day, or it can be on a specific day and time. The following options are available: Automatic (recommended) This option lets you select the day and the time that updates are automatically downloaded and installed. Let me know if you have any questions, or if the above works for you. Click Start, click Run, type wscui.cpl, and then click OK. In my case I change it to an interval of 1 week, which is 604,800 seconds.
Sudo plutil -replace StartInterval -integer 43200 /Library/LaunchAgents/.plist
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If you’d rather not disable it, and instead change the interval for it launching, do the following:Ĭontent plutil -p /Library/LaunchAgents/.plistĬp -a /Library/LaunchAgents/.plist /somewhere/to/backup/ How to uninstall Microsoft AutoUpdate on Mac computer If you encounter problem when trying to delete Microsoft AutoUpdate as well as its associated components. Launchctl print-disabled gui/$(id -u) | grep microsoft How to change the interval for it launching But, as you’ve likely discovered, this does not prevent Microsoft Autoupdate from launching every 2 hours to state there are updates available.
You’ll see I have “Automatically keep Microsoft Apps up to date” disabled. Personally, I find it annoying that Microsoft Autoupdate launches every two hours to tell me there are updates available (in my case I don’t wish to install the updates just yet, as I am using mobile data for a few weeks). Microsoft doesn’t provide any way to stop this occurring. If you’ve got any Microsoft apps installed on your macOS computer, and you’ve tried to disable automatic updates of those apps, you likely get notified every two hours of pending updates.