Looks like Microsoft have finally found a way to make updates happen without the necessity for such backdoor hackery. Then repeat this process next week, when another 140MB of updates will have to be applied.
Close Terminal and Office for Mac is finally updated. Close the ' Youre up to date ' window after Office is done checking for and installing updates. Note: You may need to click Enable Updates first if you dont see the Update Now option right away. Under Product Information, choose Update Options > Update Now. Once the update is applied, head back to the Terminal window and press CTRL+C – this will stop the killing loop. Go to File > Account (or Office Account if you opened Outlook). Don’t worry about the continuous text output in the window.īack in the Microsoft Updater window, hit “Close Applications and Install”. The is a BASH loop that will find both processes and kill them as soon as they start up again. Make sure the whole command is on the same line. You can do this without quitting anything else, even while the pesky “close applications” window is displayed.
Here’s how to do it: Open the Terminal utility on your Mac and paste the following code: while true do kill $(ps -ef | grep -i SyncServices | grep -v grep | awk ' ') done Microsoft has released a new version of its Office for Mac productivity suite that includes an updated Excel app with 100 native support for Apple silicon machines. What did work was a very clever suggestion by someone named vrleboss: Use a while loop on the command line and continually kill those processes until you’re done. None of those suggestions worked for me, and besides: what a hack any of these solutions are to apply a simple security patch. kill the processes with the Activity Monitor Utility.go offline just before this message comes up.log out, then log back in with the shift key held down.Several suggestions are available to combat this superb example of a terrible user experience: Today I got curious and researched this phenomenon – and thought I’d tell you about it. I only use M$ Office once in a blue moon and really don’t care. Usually I give up and live without such updates. Every time I try to update Microsoft Office 2011 on my Mac I get this ridiculous window popping up. No matter how hard you try, those two services – Microsoft Database Daemon and SyncServicesAgent – keep relaunching themselves, forever preventing you to apply the update.Ĭlearly Microsoft (or Apple) don’t want us to update Office for Mac: