Symptoms

After an Office 365 update, editing application instance settings is not possible, the error is faced:

'base_domain': can't update property marked as 'readonly'

or

'packageRelease': can't update property marked as 'readonly'

Cause

The instance settings have not been refreshed in IIS cache.

Resolution

Login to the Office 365 Endpoint server and restart IIS services:

iisreset

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