Patch File Microsoft Office 2016 May 2026

$currentVersion = [System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo($office2016Path).FileVersion Write-Host "Current Office 2016 version: $currentVersion" -ForegroundColor Cyan $updateUrl = "https://aka.ms/office2016updates" $updateMetadataUrl = "https://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/492350f6-3a01-4f97-b9c0-c7c6ddf67d60/office/data/office16.cab"

$office2016Path = "$env:ProgramFiles\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" if (-not (Test-Path $office2016Path)) $office2016Path = "$env:ProgramFiles(x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE"

if ([version]$currentVersion -ge [version]$latestVersion) Write-Host "Office 2016 is already up to date." -ForegroundColor Green Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $tempDir -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue exit 0 patch file microsoft office 2016

Write-Host "Downloading update catalog..." -ForegroundColor Yellow Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $updateMetadataUrl -OutFile $cabFile -UseBasicParsing Expand-Archive -Path $cabFile -DestinationPath $extractDir -Force

$updateXml = Get-ChildItem -Path $extractDir -Filter "*.xml" | Select-Object -First 1 if (-not $updateXml) Write-Host "No update manifest found." -ForegroundColor Red exit 1 $currentVersion = [System

Write-Host "Installing update (silent mode)..." -ForegroundColor Yellow Start-Process -FilePath $patchFile -ArgumentList "/quiet /norestart" -Wait -NoNewWindow

if (-not $latestUpdate) Write-Host "Could not parse latest update version." -ForegroundColor Red exit 1 patch file microsoft office 2016

$cabFile = "$tempDir\office16.cab" $extractDir = "$tempDir\extracted"