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Suvam4549

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So here is the thing. I have the MS Office 2016 Pro Plus VL September 2019 installer with me. Even if it was Pro Plus, I definitely didn't need all the apps included, so except a select few, namely Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, I checked off everything (Skype Business, Visio and others which I don't need). Now I'd like to get office updated with the latest patches. But I can't use Windows Update to download the updates because I am Bandwidth limited (Mobile data user here). Windows Update won't care what I selected during install and will download and install updates for Skype, Visio, Access which will waste my mobile data.. Now that you know the story behind, here's the question:
Do I need to download all the office 2016 updates for every month i.e. October 2019, November 2019, December 2019 & January 2020 and then install all one by one? Or I can head straight to all the January 2020 updates and I'll be good to go?
To better explain my question, there was this security Medicines for Excel 2016 in October 2019 (KB4484112) and now we have Security Medicines for Excel 2016 in January 2020 (KB4484217). According to my logic, the 2020 excel update must be built upon the patches of the previous month i.e December 2019.. In that theory, the 2020 Excel update must include all the updates from past.. So again, is there any need to download all the updates from past 4 months or I can go with only the updates released in January 2020 to be up to date?
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@Suvam4549 i killed your outside links when you had read the rules then you would know that outside links are forbidden in forum :)
 

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Okay mod, I'll be sure to read the rules again and be careful next time. :)
@Suvam4549 i killed your outside links when you had read the rules then you would know that outside links are forbidden in forum :)
 

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@Suvam4549 ...the latest update covers all previous updates ... meaning you only need the latest updates
 

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Its a bit complicated subject. There are several types of updates but for the purpose of your question, we will separate them into 2 categories.

Cumulative updates contain all the necessary sub updates that windows or office needs (or other products too) up to the date of its release (service packs is such an update too) .
Normal updates only cover the issue that they were released for.

So to answer your question, you do need to download all sub updates even if they seem to have the same name cause they update/fix a different aspect of the product be that windows or office. If you download a cumulative update you do not need to download prior updates assuming they are in the same category (security or bug fixing etc). Normally the cumulative update includes in the readme file which updates it contains.

A small example from a random cumulative update: You can see that it contains all those updates in one package and therefore you don't need to install all those separately too.
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I suggest to read what the actual fix or update does for you, and if its something that affects you, download it otherwise skip it. If for example, you see that the update fixes a compatibility issue between a DVD-Rom and a motherboard and you don't have either of those, there is no point downloading said update.

There is a slight exception to the above and that is for the case that an update is fixing a bug caused by a previous update or both are about the same problem/issue. In that case, you only download the latest one tho in general Microsoft will remove from the list, erratic updates or updated that are about the same issue.
 
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So to answer your question, you do need to download all sub updates even if they seem to have the same name cause they update/fix a different aspect of the product be that windows or office. If you download a cumulative update you do not need to download prior updates assuming they are in the same category (security or bug fixing etc). Normally the cumulative update includes in the readme file which updates it contains.
Okay, got that. Clarifies all I need but again, there is a confusion. As I skimmed through the .msp updates placed inside my Office 2016 with updates upto Spetember 2019, the was a file named along the words 'chart-x-msp' (It inculded chart for sure).. Then I downloaded a new update from the January 2020 patches, extracted it, and copied it over to the updates folder where it 'replaced' the old .msp update. What does that suggest then? If all previous updates were to be installed one by one, file by file, why did the new .msp files replace the old .msp(s)? There is another logic to this too, if we needed to install all indivisual updates to office one by one, the very installer would be extremely large in size (since one month of updates are over 1 GB in size), but the TeamOS installer I have has all the updates from RTM release to September 2019 and is only around 2 GB in size! If I am not wrong the installer excluding the updates is around 1 GB itself. :think:

@Suvam4549 ...the latest update covers all previous updates ... meaning you only need the latest updates
That's what I also think. They have no reason to release a update covering an issue of a program, then build the next update upon the RTM build instead of the updated build. The process would be completely inefficient and pointless. When the updated build skips the old build patches, won't it be vunurable to same old thing?
 

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@Suvam4549, has your doubt been resolved?
This thread has been here for almost 1 month.
 

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