Why does Office 365 show zero required updates?
Management tools often display incorrect missing update counts or false positives, especially for Office applications after channel changes. This inaccurate reporting hides the actual compliance status and leaves administrators unable to verify if required updates have been successfully applied.
What people tried
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Why does Office 365 show zero required updates?
- 1Disabling cloud-based auto-updates to maintain patch level controlDid this help you?
- 2Checking deployment settings and detection rulesDid this help you?
- 3Testing configuration changes to manage unmanaged clientsDid this help you?
- 4Manually reviewing diagnostic findings to filter out false positives.Did this help you?
- 5Migrating to cloud-based update tools like Windows Update for Business or AutopatchDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Office 365 shows 0 required.”source ↗
“is anyone else seeing the same?”source ↗
“I notice that WSUS doesnt correctly show the version number for some devices. For example, a device would should OS version as 10.0.19045.6456 on intune, but on wsus it shows as 10.0.19041.6093.”source ↗
“A consulting firm ran it on our org several months back to help us “fix our data issues” (or something) but 70% or more of the findings were false positives.”source ↗
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