Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion'

Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:28PM (#23658493)

Windows 10 Pro user at work, mixed MacOS / Windows / Lubuntu at home.

I've been on my work Windows 10 PC for 60+hrs this week, and about the same each of the past four weeks, and five to six days out of seven the past couple years.

And never had it force-update.

You can bet the moment I took this computer home (I won't, but humour me) and tried to watch a movie it would force-update, crash, refuse to boot, and need a full reinstall.

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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by nitrogen on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:03PM (#23659180)

Maybe your employer is running their own update server with their own update policies? If only at-home pro users could do that.

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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by jimnotgym on Saturday June 27, 2020 @03:45AM (#23660185)

Well short of running your own home server and AD, you can join it to Azure AD and try Intune? Haven't used Intune to control patching myself yet.

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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by jimnotgym on Saturday June 27, 2020 @03:53AM (#23660223)

Actually domain joined Windows machines tend to keep their state when they can't see their domain controller. You would probably find, depending on config, that updates stop all together.

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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:30AM (#23660376)

Ah, I see. I’ll check.

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