Have you thought about looking into disabling automatic updates via Group Policy? This would then allow Automox to apply the updates for you at your own discretion and prevent these silly things from happening.
Quick Google-Fu search and found this. Might be helpful? I know everyone’s environments are different so if you don’t use Group Policy; you can probably still get away with deploying a registry change via Mox.
You can use Group Policy Object Editor to create a policy setting to disable the automatic updates feature for Office. In that way, Office 365 won’t check for updates. And to prevent users from clicking Enable Updates in the File-> Account->Office Updates , you can also disable that button via GPO. In addition, you can enable these features in the future when you want Office to updates automatically. There is a reference about using Group Policy to configure update settings for Office 365.
To disable the automatic updates feature for Office, please try the following group policy settings:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate
Value Name: enableautomaticupdates
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 0
To hide the option of enable or disable updates, please try the following group policy settings:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate
Value Name: hideenabledisableupdates
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 1
Source: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9124a98f-50c8-4bde-8104-5d18200a31b4/office-365-how-to-temorarily-disable-the-update-feature-for-all-users?forum=Office2016ITPro#:~:text=You%20can%20use%20Group%20Policy,disable%20that%20button%20via%20GPO.