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 Get the latest updates on Windows updates! We're diving in to what’s coming in the next few months, and how to get ready!      
 
 
 
 
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Heather_Poulsen
Updated Dec 27, 2024
David_Guyer
Microsoft
Oct 25, 2022Hi Karl,
The key reason for the change was because as we grow out support for Windows Update for Business deployment service, admins can start updates using Windows Update for Business on any day... so the device doesn't know when the update was first made available.  This is especially true for Feature updates, but for quality updates consistency is also good for predictability.   It does cause some longer timeframes for OOF devices, but for healthy devices will make sense.
HTH, 
-DG
Paul_Woodward
Oct 25, 2022Iron Contributor
Our HR department have staff on parental leave (what we used to call maternity leave) to take their work laptops with them, they claim it is a legal requirement. Whatever, the point it these machines get used infrequently for a year or more, and the users generally do not use our Cloud services so are not doing MFA. The upshot is we get terrible update compliance. The change above is unlikely to be helpful for us.  Understand, our update compliance is measured from the release date of the patch, not when we make it available or when the laptop saw it.  If the device can't tell when the patch was issued, maybe fix that instead???