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Windows Office Hours: September 18, 2025

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Thursday, Sep 18, 2025, 08:00 AM PDT
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Get answers to your questions about adopting Windows 11 and managing Windows devices across your organization. Find out how to proactively implement and monitor Zero Trust practices. Get tips on keeping devices up to date. Learn how to move forward with cloud-native workloads, even if you have on-premises or hybrid needs.

Windows Office Hours is our continuing series of live Q&A for IT professionals here on Tech Community.

How does it work?

We will have a broad group of product experts, servicing experts, and engineers representing Windows, Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager, Windows 365, Windows Autopilot, security, public sector, FastTrack, and more. They will be standing by here -- in chat -- to provide guidance, discuss strategies and tactics, and, of course, answer any specific questions you may have.

Post your questions in the Comments early and throughout the one-hour event.

Note: This is a chat-based event. There is no video or live meeting component. Questions and answers will appear in the Comments section below.

Heather_Poulsen
Updated Jun 23, 2025
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  • nlmitchell's avatar
    nlmitchell
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 15, 2025

    Autopilot question - I wonder if you could give more detail around the status of being able to apply Quality Updates during OOBE.

    We saw the toggle appear in the ESP config and done some initial testing. There was a new "Checking for Windows Updates" screen that appeared during the User config part of OOBE/AP, but it didn't apply anything. Once landed in Windows, there were a bunch of Updates available to download/install within Windows Update Settings, so it had done some sort of check as the WUfB policies hadn't kicked in from Intune yet and taken over, but didn't install anything.

    Further reading suggests that this configuration part of Autopilot has now been paused?? Having devices fully up to date before they hit the Windows desktop is a no brainer, even if it does slow down the user provisioning process. Once it's back up and running, are there plans to be able to built this process into the device provisioning/pre-provisioning stages? Having it fully updated before it even sees a user would be the icing on the cake.

    Also, is it this registry setting that it's trying to set to allow updates to apply during OOBE?

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Autopilot\EnrollmentStatusTracking\Device\Setup\Policy\InstallQualityUpdates - with a DWORD value of 1

    Thanks

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