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WUfB enabled with Update Baseline, No Notifications
Hi Kay_Toma,
Since our devices are on 1803 we actually cannot use intelligent active hours just yet, but we are excited to once our upgrade fully completes. For our pilot deployment, we went ahead and actually removed any GPO setting that was marked as "Not configured" from the Update Baseline template as our environment had never declared them. After doing so, we began to receive toast notifications immediately following the installation of the 20H2 feature update, as we were hoping. We created a separate OU with the default settings for Update Baseline, and it still has the same behavior as previous shown, no toast notifications (granted these machines are on 1803, this may not be the case for all versions). We are now expanding this deployment to further our testing. I have not been able to verify that the Engaged Restart notifications are working or displaying for users, however will let you know as we near the deadline in the coming days. I am at least able to verify that machines did reboot deadline was reached, and that they were being scheduled after taking a look at the logs present in NotificationUxBroker.etl.
Thanks for reaching out, so far WUfB has been working great, even without notifications!
Let us know if you have any other questions or issues.
Thanks Kay_Toma. Our biggest question is around the behavior as computers near our deadline. We want to communicate to our end-users what the notifications they will be seeing are going to look like before broad deployment, and I see a few examples in the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/wufb-compliancedeadlines. For feature updates are users to expect a notification like the one below, or does this only occur for pending quality updates or for feature updates as well?
We have yet to catch one of these in-action, but want to make sure that our polices are configured to display notifications like these in addition to the toast notifications that we have been seeing post-install and after login. Are there registry keys we can check or scheduled tasks for these pop-ups to make sure they are being utilized?
Thanks again for your help!
- Yes, those notifications are for Quality Updates as well as Feature Updates! As long as you have the compliance deadline configured you don't need to check other reg keys/scheduled tasks to make sure the notifications are showing. 🙂
- Specify deadlines for automatic updates and restarts (Enabled)
- Display options for update notifications (Enabled - set to 0 AKA default)Fantastic Kay_Toma! I also wanted to run a scenario by you in case I am misunderstanding deadlines. By configuring deadlines and not "Restart outside of active hours" as we had traditionally, are devices that do not have any users signed in going to restart after hours as they previously had? From what I am grasping now, it seems like those devices will wait until the deadline then restart during active hours, is that correct or does the previous behavior still apply? This is assuming we are not setting active hours, we will let the default values apply (8 - 5 and intelligent active hours when possible).