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Brinkmann: Win10 1709 group policy setting incorrectly blocking cumulative updates?
Martin Brinkmann has uncovered a very strange group policy behavior in Win10 Fall Creators Update, version 1709, and written about it on ghacks.
It looks like the setting “After a Preview Build or Feature Update is released, defer receiving it for this many days” may, in fact, defer cumulative updates (which Microsoft insists on calling “quality updates”).
Switching the value back to 0, or disabling the policy altogether (which has the same effect), has Windows 10 pick up the missing cumulative updates immediately according to the user who reported the issue on Microsoft’s Technet forum.
That Technet post includes detailed step-by-step instructions for recreating the behavior. It also includes a note that poster Klaasklever has “seen reports that this issue is also caused by setting to defer Feature Updates in the Windows Update Settings within the normal Windows Settings App.”
Looks like it’s yet another bug in 1709.
