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  • #8800
    Hometown
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    Hi Everyone,

    I’m looking to completely disable my Windows client to automatically look for updates from Microsoft because I want to centrally control which updates to install. For this I wanted to disable and stop wuauserv altogether, which does the trick, but BatchPatch needs it to run in order to perform updates (HRESULT -2147023838).

    Is there a way to overcome this restriction and allow BatchPatch to run Windows updates without these services running?

    Do you have any other recommendation/suggestion perhaps, in case this is not possible?

    #10058
    doug
    Moderator

    Don’t do this. Do not disable the Windows Update services. It’s the wrong approach, and it’s a bad idea. Instead change the group policy (or local policy on each computer if there is no domain) for ‘Configure Automatic Updates’ and set it to “2 – Notify for download…” Any machine that is configured for setting 2 will *NOT* automatically download updates anymore. Then you can use BatchPatch for this process.

    To do this… In the Group Policy / Local Policy editor (gpedit.msc) go to ‘Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update’. Set the “Configure Automatic Updates” setting to 2.

    Also make sure you do not have ‘Dual Scan’ enabled on your computers. More here:

    dual-scan-difficulties-with-windows-update-on-windows-10-versions-1607-anniversary-update-and-1703-creators-update

    deciphering-dual-scan-behavior-in-windows-10

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