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rjlucas365
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Oct 21, 2021

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What are the recommended settings for shared devices around Automatic Update Behavior, Restart Checks, and Deadlines?

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  • rjlucas365 

     

    Our full set of recommendations are included in the whitepaper at https://aka.ms/updatevelocity    It will say Update Baseline, click the download button and download the .pdf file.

    In specifiic:

      We recommend the default auto update settings,

      Leave the default for restart checks

      Recommend a 7 day deadline for Feature Updates, 3 days for Quality Updates, and a 2 day Grace Period.

     

    These settings are the most important and will provide a balance of update velocity while giving users control of when restarts happen for a few days, keeping them happier.  You can fiddle with grace period a bit to give end users more or less time to manage the restart.

     

    HTH

    -David Guyer

    Program Manager, Windows Updates in MEM

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