![]() Note that I have tested/verified that this works with Skype, which seems to check for and download updates on every launch. ![]() You can tell if an application uses the Squirrel framework by ctrl+clicking it, choosing Show Package Contents, then looking inside: Thanks also to Rick Heil for the idea of putting this into a Launch Agent. Thanks to the awesome Tim Sutton for uncovering this with the Slack application a while back (before they changed it) – check out his post and please support the issue he raised on Github: To get this to stick, run the above command in a script at login with Outset or put it in a Launch Agent, like this one (copy to /Library/Launch Agents):Ĭom. You’ll notice that upon restarting, the auto-updating-annoying-behavior will come back. Bear in mind that setting this knocks out automatic updates for all apps that use Squirrel (except those that Nerf that shit so hard).Īll you need to do is run this command, as the current logged in user: /bin/launchctl setenv DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK 1 However, it turns out that it does have an environment variable we can set. It isn’t possible to disable this via managed preferences or a configuration profile as the Squirrel framework doesn’t provide a preference domain or preference for it. If we’re packaging and deploying these applications (which we normally would be in the environments we manage), then they’re usually owned by root and can’t be modified by standard user accounts. This is undesirable in lab/managed environments where users typically aren’t local administrators, as they’re often presented with a dialog like this, which they can’t do much with, other than ask IT for help: With version 8.x of Skype and since the debut of Teams, Microsoft have been using the Squirrel framework to manage automatic updates of these applications.
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