Office 2016 from Office365 will stay in the “Channel”
I am not sure why Microsoft would make Office365 Office 2016 not periodically check in with the portal to see what configuration it should be, but it does not. I called Microsoft Partner support after changing our configuration from Deferred to Current and finding out 2 days later that nothing had changed on the desktops.
Office365 is set to deploy the Deferred version of Office 2016 by default and that is likely a good thing. However, there are many good reasons to want to change Office365 from Deferred to Current channel including:
This post explains how to change Office365 from Deferred to Current.
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Just a note that option #2 does not work. However, #3 still does.