This description, although thoroughly tested, is provided as-is, and I grant no warranty. And we all know that we don’t want that on each and every system.īut there is a solution, although it’s unsupported.

The trouble is, that these options are only available, if you install the Desktop Experience feature. In this case, you have the ability to use cleanmgr.exe to remove the following things automatically: There are systems where this is crucial, but there are also many Windows Servers, where we know that this will never be necessary. So if you ever needed, you could revert a single update.

Among other things, Windows Updates creates uninstall information for every installed update. If I’m not completely mistaken the only Policy to choose when to patch Windows Updates has been “ Configure Automatic Updates” since ever: Continue reading “Taking back control of Windows Update: Install Updates when you want to!” Author Marco Posted on Categories Group Policy, Microsoft, PDQ Deploy & PDQ Inventory, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, WSUS Tags ABC Update, GPO, Group Policy, PDQ Deploy, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Update, WSUS Leave a comment on Taking back control of Windows Update: Install Updates when you want to! Silent uninstall Office 365Īfter many years with with Windows Server 2008 R2, we received over 200 different Windows Updates. Tl dr: If you choose option “3 – Auto download and notify for install” for your WSUS Group Policy, you can take any advanced Task Scheduler like PDQ Deploy in combination with ABC-Update to install Windows Updates scheduled the way YOU want it to be! Prologue, where is my problem?įirst let’s take a look at the options Microsoft offers us and why I refuse to rely on those.

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