SOLVED: How to Change Channels in Office 365 Pro Plus

Office 365 Pro Plus has three different channels or ‘rings’:

It is easy to change to a differnt channel Office 365Pro+ channel:

1. Close ALL Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio…)
2. Open and CMD prompt as an administrator
3. type cd C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun and press the ENTER key
4. type either
   1. OfficeC2RClient.exe /changesetting Channel=Broad
   2. OfficeC2RClient.exe /changesetting Channel=Targeted
   3. OfficeC2RClient.exe /changesetting Channel=Monthly
      and press the ENTER key
5. type OfficeC2RClient.exe /update user and press the ENTER key
6. wait the 3 to 5 minutes it takes for the command to pull the relavent files down from the internet and install them
7. reboot – definately not required but Microsoft recommends it

When the complete launch one of the Office programs, such as Word, and click, FILE, ACCOUNT and look at the ABOUT WORD section near the bottom right to see if the channel you expect is the channel you have.

If you want to know if you are running 32bit or 64bit (and you should most definately be running 64bit), click the ABOT WORD button and notice the 64BIT at the end of the MICROSOFT WORD FOR OFFICE 365 string.