SonicMojo Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 (edited) All, Most posts I read across the NET today go into great detail on how to STOP Windows 10 from ruining the user experience by updating/restarting at the most annoying time. Lo and behold - I am in the other camp - I actually want the machine to restart - with a 15 minute warning window to the user. But try as I might - I simply cannot get this to work - like ever. Some background. I have a test set up with the 3 Virtual PCs (Hyper-V) running several different flavors of Windows 10 Enterprise ( v1607 LTSB, v1709 and now v1809) I have Local GP set on each VM - set as follows: Computer Config->Admin Templates->WIndows Components->Windows Update->Configure Automatic Updates to Option 4 "Auto Download and Schedule the Install" Kick off time is Everyday @ 6:00am on any week of each month. Updates come from a local WSUS installed on one of my internal servers - the local GP from each VM hits WSU without issue. WSUS is operating correctly. I use a typical monthly approval routine where each Wednesday (the day after Patch Tuesday) - I approve the latest cumulative updates and usually the Adobe flash patches for ONLY my "Virtual PCs" group on WSUS. All three VMs are in this WSUS computer group. I have spent probably a weeks worth of time over the last month trying to figure out why none of these machines will ever "automatically" download and install updates. I have been over and over the GPOs with a various other forum groups - all have the same 6 settings but no downloads ever occur. The best I ever get is - after basic approvals are done on Wednesday and I check the VMs on say - Thursday - I see that all three have indeed checked in with WSUS and all three have reported back listing the updates that need to be installed - but none of the VMs actually take the next step to install anything automatically. They all just sit there - waiting for me to open the Windows Update settings dialog manually and hit Install Now. It's almost like these installs are actually using option 3 in the GP object - Auto Download and NOTIFY for install rather than 4 - Auto Download and Schedule the install. Other settings in the GPOs are set to hard reboot the machine within 15 minutes regardless if anyone is logged in or not. I think it may have something to do with either a user being logged on OR "Active Hours" on all three VMs . All three installs have default Active Hours of 8:00am to 5:00pm. I would think that setting the updates to occur at 6:00am each day would allow at least 2 hours to install the updates automatically before we hit the 8:00am Active Hours start time. In other tests - I reduced Active Hours to 1:00pm - 3:00pm and still no updates install even with no one using the VM from 6:00am to 12:59pm. I still have to manually click Install Now. What am I missing? This is truly making me nuts. Appreciate any tips from the field. B Edited October 24, 2018 by Vocalpoint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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