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WUfB - Update Baseline / Best Practise
A new article has recently been published that answers just that question, The Windows Update policies you should set and why - Microsoft Tech Community
In short, for what you've described, the default settings + configuring the deadline settings should give you what you are looking for. Default settings utilize Active hours, and even allow end users to specify their own active hours, or let Intelligent Active Hours find or recommend great settings for each user. And our default notifications provide a daily reminder until the deadline+grace period are reached and then provide a couple more reminders before restarting.
HTH
-David
Microsofthi David_Guyer
We made this Setting but we have some questions about definitions;
- When you receive the update notification - you can say: "Remind me later" - what does "later" mean?
when is the next notification?
- Grace periods; in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/update-policies is the discription from "on vacation" - does this mean the device is offline (for the hole vacationtime?)
- we set the setting "Don't auto-restart until end of grace period" - but the device restart out the active hours ? so what do this setting?
thank you for your help! 🙂
- David_GuyerRemind me later essentially causes the notification to come up again the following day, unless on the last day of a deadline, in which case it can be faster than that. The other thing it does prior to the deadline is enable the automatic restarts outside of active hours, to try to restart the device when the user is not using the it.
Naturally, restart now means right away, and schedule a time allows the user to specify the time the restart will occur, rather than letting the system use the auto restart outside of active hours behavior. The upside of this option is that less idle/busy checks are done since the user has indicated "restart at this time", though if the user is at the device at that time they can reschedule to prevent productivity loss. The downside is that if the user schedules a time, forgets, and then puts the device to hibernation, or turns it off, then they often get confused why it didn't restart at the scheduled time.
HTHhey David_Guyer
Thank you for your explation!
Can you tell me what is with the other two questions?
- Grace periods; in this artice is the discription from "on vacation" - does this mean the device is offline (for the hole vacationtime?)- we set the setting "Don't auto-restart until end of grace period" - but the device restart out the active hours ? so what do this setting?