Office 365 Group Policies question

We initially deployed Office 365 with updates turned off so about half of our users have an old version of Office 365. We want to now manage the updates using the new group policies for O365. I read this statement ...In
order for these four new policy settings to work, you will need to have at least the April 2014 build of Office 2013 Click-to-Run (Build 15.0.4605.1003) and download the latest Administrative templates files (ADMX/ADML).
Does this mean that the version on the PC has to have at least the April 2014 build to use the policies? If that's true how would I go about updating the users who have automatic updates turned off. there are a couple of thousand users.

Does this mean that the version on the PC has to have at least the April 2014 build to use the policies? If that's true how would I go about updating the users who have automatic updates turned off. there are a couple of thousand users.
Yes.
Depending on how you deployed/deploy Office365ProPlus, and, the tools/techniques available to you in your environment, there are some options.
a) re-deploy Office365ProPlus to the computers. Use the latest build version.
b) check the relevant registry settings, and if correction is needed, deploy the correct registry settings.
These articles may help you to determine which of the multiple scenarios you have to deal with:
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/156/t/220142.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/modonovan/archive/2014/04/09/office-365-pro-plus-fails-to-update-or-fails-with-error-code-30088-27.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/4369357e-5de9-4755-8f2c-33ae948b14fb/manually-triggering-updates-in-office-2013?forum=officeitpro
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_resource_kit/archive/2013/06/17/automating-quick-repairs-in-office-365-proplus.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2014/03/03/the-new-update-now-feature-for-office-2013-click-to-run-for-office365-and-its-associated-command-line-and-switches.aspx
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