

Now enter the following addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, then click OK.

Next, click the DNS tab and then the Add (+) button at the bottom. It won't run if your laptop's off though (solutions here) although it only needs to run once every few attempts. Launch System Preferences and go to Network > Advanced.

To schedule with crontab type sudo crontab -e in Terminal (or iTerm etc), press i, and enter the following to run this every Wednesday at 2pm: # min hour day_of_month month day_of_week commandĠ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"ġ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist"Ģ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist"Īpple recommends another way to schedule on MacOS. Another thread suggests it is run after missing 3 updates. If so these commands will need running every 90 days. One thread suggests the nag is run after 90 days without an update. The tool is primarily designed to give IT administrators more precise control over when updates are applied. The msupdate tool can be used to start the update process for Microsoft applications produced for Mac, such as Office. Ppowerpoint: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist" Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) version 3.18 and later includes the msupdate command-line tool. Word: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"Įxcel: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist" This seems to have worked for me - extracted this from the ResetUpdateMessage script on William's answer.
