Quick overview of Windows 10 updating strategy

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Good, short recap of the way Windows 10 is getting updates — cumulative updates, “Current Branch for Business” (which is basically a setting in Group
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There’s more control there than I thought, but there’s still no way to outright deny updates and that’s not OK with me…not on hardware I bought and paid for. MS has a bad track record on delivering updates that cause OS and/or software failures and breaking things that were not originally broken…so, I don’t trust them to hand over “the keys to the kingdom” with my servers and workstations.

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“you can no longer decline to install updates when they’re available on a PC you manage. Using default settings for Windows 10, in fact, you can push off installation by only a few days.”

Huh?
Last time I checked the “Configure Automatic Updates” setting in GP works fine.

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Looks like KB3176493 has failed to install 2x now on my win 10 Pro with Defer Upgrades checked. I’m guessing that is why? Wonder if MS will keep trying to install.

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Oh, to be clear I am on 1511 build.

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Yep, defer upgrades will do it.

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Thanks Woody. Good to hear, wild that MS has tried twice to install.

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