It won't run if your laptop's off though (solutions here) although it only needs to run once every few attempts. To schedule with crontab type sudo crontab -e in Terminal (or iTerm etc), press i, and enter the following to run this every Wednesday at 2pm: # min hour day_of_month month day_of_week commandĠ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist'ġ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist'Ģ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist'Īpple recommends another way to schedule on MacOS. Another thread suggests it is run after missing 3 updates. If so these commands will need running every 90 days. One thread suggests the nag is run after 90 days without an update. Ppowerpoint: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist' Word: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist'Įxcel: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date '+%Y%m%d0001') '/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist'
This seems to have worked for me - extracted this from the ResetUpdateMessage script on William's answer.