stop Microsoft Auto Update icon appearance

[zoran]

How can i stop the Microsoft Auto Update icon from appearing? It comeups every-time i open the MBPro and it is really frustrating.

 

[arw]

I'm not sure if I remember correctly (after a fresh macOS install, I unselected the Microsoft Autoupdater when installing the Office suite so I'm not bothered anymore) but:
- There should either be an option to not perform an automatic search for updates in the app
/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app
- You could delete the launch daemon to prevent the updater from auto-starting /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist

 

[bogdanw]

What I use

sudo defaults write /Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.update.agent.plist RunAtLoad -bool NO
sudo chmod 644 /Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.update.agent.plist

 

[kitKAC]

How can i stop the Microsoft Auto Update icon from appearing? It comeups every-time i open the MBPro and it is really frustrating.

Is the updater set to install updates automatically? Mine is and the Updater icon never appears in the dock, maybe it appears there when updates are set to manual install?

 

[zoran]

Is the updater set to install updates automatically? Mine is and the Updater icon never appears in the dock, maybe it appears there when updates are set to manual install?

Its not, i dont want any updates to be installed, i just dont want to watch it come up every now and then