Installing and updating Click-to-Run products

Install and update content for Microsoft Click-to-Run products through BigFix Patches for Windows.

BigFix Patches for Windows provides support for Microsoft updates that are installed through Click-to-Run, instead of the Windows installer-based method (MSI). Click-to-Run is a streaming and virtualization Microsoft technology that install and update Microsoft products, including Office 365 and Office 2016.BigFix Patches for Windows helps users with the following features:

Detect outdated Office 365 and Office 2016 products
Configure the update source settings of Office 365 Click-to-Run updates to come from the web, a network share location, or from a client cache folder through the BigFix architecture
Remove the update source settings for Office 365 Click-to-Run updates
Maintain an updated network share
Enable and disable automatic updates
Check the Office 365 configuration of machines

Microsoft Click-to-Run technology

Click-to-Run is a streaming and virtualization Microsoft technology that installs Office products such as Office 365 and the single purchase version of Office 2016. Click-to-Run updates do not use MSI, MSP, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Office products that use Click-to-Run can receive automatic updates from Microsoft through the web or download from an on-premises location.The Office Deployment tool is used to manage Click-to-Run installations.

The Office Deployment Tool supports the following operating systems:.

Table 1. Operating systems that are supported by the Office Deployment Tool
Office products	Operating systems
Office 2013	Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012
Office 2016	Windows 10 Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2

For more information about Click-to-Run, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/office-suite-issues/office-click-to-run-installation.

For more information about Office Deployment Tool, see the following links:

Office 2013 Deployment Tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-sg/download/details.aspx?id=36778
Office 2016 Deployment Tool : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117

Supported applications

BigFix Patches for Windows supports applications and, if applicable, subscription plans for the following Microsoft products that use Click-to-Run.

Office 365 – Office 2013 PC applications
Office 365 – Office 2016 PC applications
Office 2016 (single purchase version)

For more detailed information about the supported application, see Supported operating systems, products, and updates.