Users are being offered “Get the new Office” business bar to upgrade to 2016

Issue:

If your organization has not taken steps to prevent the upgrade, users will start seeing the following business bar in their Office applications:

Resolution:

If you would like to stop receiving this business bar and block upgrades, please take the following steps:

1. Follow these steps to prevent the upgrade
2. On the systems that already seeing the above business bar, edit the following registry key:
   1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\ClickToRun\Updates
      UpgradePackageVersion REG_SZ   Value = 0.0.0.0

 

More Information:

When you are ready to enable upgrades simply undo the changes you made per the steps to prevent the upgrade.