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Jul 25, 2017

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What happens when a build expires?

My understanding is that when a Win10 build expires, it will ignore any configuration by an organization (WSUS, WuB, etc) and reach out to MS update servers for an update action. Assuming the abo...

Michael Niehaus
Jul 25, 2017
When a particular Windows 10 release goes past its end of servicing date, nothing happens - no new updates will be installed because no new updates will be released. This will leave you in an insecure state, so it's advised to upgrade to a later feature update before this happens.

We will have a blog talking about this later this week.

Michael Niehaus

Former Employee

Jul 25, 2017

When a particular Windows 10 release goes past its end of servicing date, nothing happens - no new updates will be installed because no new updates will be released. This will leave you in an insecure state, so it's advised to upgrade to a later feature update before this happens.

We will have a blog talking about this later this week.

Michael Niehaus
Former Employee
Jul 25, 2017
It does not go into reduced functionality mode. (That only happens when the device isn't activated, and even with that, all that happens is that you can't customize the desktop background.)