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Windows Office Hours: September 18, 2025
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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
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