An update service for Microsoft operating systems, server products, Office applications, Windows Defender, and Internet Explorer. It provides security updates, service packs, roll-ups, feature packs, and malware protection. The service is included in all versions of Windows since Windows 2000.
Questions tagged [windows-update]
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What does "defer features updates" do in Windows Server 2016?
I know what the "defer upgrades" option in Windows 10 does - it allows you to choose between the "Current Branch" and the "Current Branch for Business".
Windows Server 2016, on the other hand, always uses the "Long Term Servicing Branch".
Thus, I…
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Why is SiteToZoneAssignment GPO applying, but sites not appearing in IE
We have a Windows server 2012 R2 remote desktop farm, which we have applied a GPO to, to control site to zone assignments.
This was working fine up until recently, but just lately, we have found that this setting is not applying.
If I toggle ESC on,…
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Can Windows Update be configured to also update other Microsoft products via Group Policy?
Can Windows Update be configured to also update other Microsoft products via Group Policy?
In other words, how can I check the "Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows." box via a GPO?
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Unable to update Windows 10 programatically
Would like to apply the Windows 10 November upgrade programatically to my Windows 10 Pro machines. Since this is to be done on a large number of machines, it has to be done programatically.
For this have used the following script to execute the…
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March 10th Patch Tuesday appears to cause SQL Server client connection problems
Since applying the full set of patches on a Win 7.1 Pro desktop and a Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter Azure server running SQL 2014, SQL Management Studio (2008 and 2014 versions) won't connect to the SQL 2014 Azure server. The client connection attempt…
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Declining superseded updates in WSUS
When you click on an update that has been superseded in WSUS, you get a warning that says you should verify the update is no longer needed before declining it. According to Microsoft, you're supposed to approve the superseding updates first, wait…
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Proxy Server setting stuck on Server 2003 R2 for Windows Updates
Stay a while and listen. This is going to be a long one. We've been having a problem the last couple of months with Updates on very specific Microsoft Server 2003 R2 Machines. This problem has confounded me and our resident server administrator to…
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KB2919355 updated not offered
On my Windows 8.1 machines, the so-called "April Update" from KB2919355 was installed automatically by Windows Update, as expected. However, on my 2012 R2 server, the update was not automatically installed, and Windows Update says "no updates are…
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Is there a way to script the installation of System Center Configuration Manager updates listed in Software Center?
We have a very tight outage window and for many of our systems, the servers must be rebooted in the correct order. Because of this, I would like to script our updates.
I have attempted to use this Powershell script found in the Microsoft Script…
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How to check WSUS server updates downloaded size?
How can I check the updates size which were downloaded in WSUS?
For example I need to check the updates size downloaded of April 9, 2013 for new 26 updates.
And how can I locale the new updates on the HDD?
Note: I have configured WSUS to automatic…
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Windows Update Agent Update Failed
I'm trying to install the latest version of Windows Update Agent, v7.2.6001.788, and the installation failed with error code of 0x800b0100. Running Windows Server 2008 SP1.
The relevant WindowsUpdate.log section:
2009-08-03 16:17:49:334 3544 …
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Why is Windows Update suddenly failing with error 0x80244019?
Since installing updates yesterday, one of our 2008 R2 servers refuses to connect to our WSUS again and, instead, reports the unknown error 0x80244019. Connecting to the official Windows Update repository works without any issues. The problem…
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How to diagnose why an update cannot be installed on Windows Server 2003?
On one specific server sometimes I get an error message when I'm trying to install security updates. The message is showed immediately after trying to install them. Where can I find the log files which show what's causing the problem?
Update: Here…
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Automatic Updates occurring unintentionally
My boss and I were sitting in our server room today when we all of a sudden heard one of our servers go into hyper-speed, indicating that it was restarting. You can imagine the immediate "oh crap" expressions on our faces.
We dug into the logs, and…
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Edit Windows Update GPO Via Command Line
I am trying to find a way to edit the group policy for Windows Updates programmatically. I have a local WSUS server to which I want to point new installs of windows. Ideally, I just want to have a script I can run which does this, rather than going…
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