Windows Office Hours: September 18, 2025

Any update on whether the Expedited Update feature will ever be fixed?

Just to get everyone up to speed: I opened a support case back in September 2024 after I had attempted to use the feature to expedite the 2024-08 update and it caused all my workstations to enter a state where the updates were being repeatedly installed and rolled back until the machine was manually rebooted.

After eight months of working with Microsoft Support, I was told the issue was fixed and the case was closed. However, the feature is still broken.

I thought I made a breakthrough last month when I discovered some information buried in the documentation advising that the Automatic update behavior setting in the update ring setting is recommended to be set to Reset to default, but I'm still seeing the same issue after having made that change to the update ring applied to my test group.