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jbyers
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Apr 22, 2020

Delay Feature Upgrades past 365 days with Windows Update for Business?

Hello, I would like to know if Feature Upgrades can be delayed past 365 days to prevent devices from upgrading to Windows 10 1903/1909?  I want to keep my fleet at Windows 10 1809 right now while ...
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Apr 22, 2020

jbyers If you are using Windows Update for Business, I would recommend that you utilize Feature Update Pause Start Date in order to prevent feature updates from being offered to the device for up to 35 days at a time. Please let me know if you have any questions on how to do this (docs here). 

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jbyers
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Apr 22, 2020

AriaUpdated 

Thanks for the reply.  So you're saying simply Pause the Feature Updates and continue to move the Pause start date forward?  My fear there is a client may not pick up the periodically changing start date if it does not sign onto VPN regularly to contact AD/SCCM.  Is there a way to permanently pause a feature update with WUfB?

Thanks.

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    AriaUpdated
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    Apr 22, 2020

    jbyers I would recommend doing something such as: set the pause feature updates start date for 4/22/2020, then adjust the date to 5/6/2020 to ensure that devices have 2+ weeks to connect and get the policy change. Additionally, I will determine if there is another method available to permanently pause feature updates until you are ready and will follow back on this thread with more information. 🙂 

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