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I used WSUS to push out the WIN10 1909 upgrade to a select group of computers and used BatchPatch with the “include Upgrades Option” to publish the upgrade to WIN10 computers.If I logon onto a WIN10 machine the upgrade appears under the items to install but you cannot use batchPatch to remotely start the install because you have to manually specify a time and there does not appear to be an option to do this.
Is there a way, batchPath or otherwise to kick off the install without visiting each machine and starting the install manually.
Changing active hours did not work for me.
Thanks
LaurieLaurie – I’m actually not quite sure what you’re describing. When you use BatchPatch to download/install the feature update by selecting the ‘include upgrades’ option, it initiates the download/install process. The process does require a reboot before Windows will actually perform and complete the installation, so I’m not sure if you simply didn’t ever initiate the reboot or if you’re describing something different. Under normal circumstances when installing the feature updates with BP you would make sure that the update is showing in the “Check for available updates” and then you would select the “include upgrades” option to get BatchPatch to initiate the download/install when you select the BP action to ‘Download and install updates plus reboot if required’. Then upon reboot, the computer would complete the installation. And of course you can review the ‘Remote Agent Log’ column to ensure that BatchPatch executed the download/install of the feature update (or you can use ‘Actions > Windows Update > View BatchPatch.log’). If you don’t see the feature update in the list of updates that BP downloaded/installed, that would explain why you are not seeing it be installed by BP. I’m confused and unsure about what you are doing/experiencing.
The other way that you can use BatchPatch to deploy feature updates is described here: Deploying Windows Feature Upgrades Remotely to Multiple Computers
Thanks for the additional info and screenshot. At the moment I don’t know if something has changed in 1909 as compared to the previous Win 10 versions, or if there is something specific to your environment that is causing this. We’ll do some testing here with 1909 to see what we come up with.
What is the version of Win 10 that is on the machines now? I know you are upgrading to 1909, but which version is running before 1909 is applied?
Also, which Windows Update group policies do you currently have applied to these targets?
-Doug
Can you check your group policy settings?
Which policies are enabled under these locations?
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Windows Update for Business
I’m especially wondering if you have configured “Select when Preview Builds and Feature Updates are received” and if you have the item inside that policy, “Pause Preview Builds or Feature Updates starting:“, configured with a date? However, I’d still also be interested to know which other policies are configured too in addition to this particular one. Thanks.
I just realized I never asked you which version of BatchPatch you’re using. Are you using a version of BP that was released prior to 20200425 ? If yes, that’s your problem. The ability to install Win 10 feature updates through the normal Windows Update actions in BatchPatch only arrived in 20200425.
If you’re already using 20200425 or newer, then I’m sorry to say at the moment I’m just not sure what is causing your issue. If you’re already using 20200425 or newer, then for now your best workaround is to instead just deploy the feature update with the method outlined here:
Deploying Windows Feature Upgrades Remotely to Multiple Computers
If you’re interested in solving this I would ask you to please review my posting above about group policy objects, and please then let me know the answer to that question, as it might be what we need to figure out what is going on. Thanks.
Thanks. I suspect your issue is arising due to your group policy settings. Most likely it would be from the use of either the “No auto-restart with logged on users” policy OR possibly the use of option 4 setting in the “Configure automatic updates” policy OR possibly the combination of the two. I would suggest removing the “No auto-restart with logged on users” setting and also changing the “Configure automatic updates” setting from 4 to 3. After the machine has received the new/updated policy settings, try once again to run the feature update process from BP (you’ll probably need to run it again from scratch as if you had never run it previously). I think there is a good chance that the feature update will now apply without prompting you to schedule it. Let me know how it goes.
Just to confirm… after you modified the GPO and applied it, you ran the download/install/reboot from BP again? And then after the target machine rebooted, it didn’t automatically start the installation? Or did you not try the reboot? I ask because the reboot is necessary before it will proceed with the actual installation, so I just want to confirm that I understood what you did. Thanks.
Weird, thanks. In your ‘All Messages’ column after the download/install, but before the reboot, you should have a line that says: “Windows Update: Feature update preparation complete.” Can you confirm that you do see this? Or did it fail? If it failed it would say “Windows Update: Feature update preparation failed: someExitCodeHere”.
Assuming that the preparation process completed without failing, my hunch is that the issue is still being caused by a GPO, though I’m not sure which one. We can’t reproduce it at the moment, and we have no other reports of it as of yet. I’ll let you know if we come up with any other ideas. Please also report back if you test anything else, such as removing *all* Windows Update GPOs before trying again.
And do keep in mind that at least as a workaround, if needed/desired, that you can always deploy the update using the BP deployment feature instead of the BP Windows Update feature, per the link noted a few postings above ( Deploying Windows Feature Upgrades Remotely to Multiple Computers )
OK that’s very helpful! So now it looks like we have the reason why it isn’t working, which is that there is no preparation step occurring. What I don’t know is why or how that could be getting skipped. I’ve just emailed you to request a HTML grid export for further, closer review. Let’s switch to email for now. Then I’ll come back and update this thread after we (hopefully) get to the bottom of what’s going on.
-Doug
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