Type Gpupdate /force on the client computer to update the GPO settings on the machine. Now log on to the client machine MBG-CL1 and open up command prompt. Select the GPO “Disable_Windows_Updates” and click OK as shown below. In the Group Policy Management snap-in, navigate and right-click on the Billing OU and click on “Link an existing GPO”
To apply the GPO we must link the policy to a the OU named Billing. This will save the configuration settings to the newly created GPO, now exit the Group Policy Management Editor. Here, select Disabled radio button to disable the Windows updates and click OK. This will bring up the configuration window of this policy. → Policies → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → Windows Update and double click on Configure Automatic Updates policy as shown below. This will open the Group Policy Management Editor, navigate under Computer Configuration. Now specify the GPO name as required and click OK as shown below.Īfter that, right click on “Disable_Windows_Updates” GPO and click on edit. Create new Group Policy Object by right-clicking on the empty space at the right panel and click New. You can create a new GPO from here and then link it to any OU. Now expand forest → Domains → mustbegeek.local and select on the OU Group Policy Objects as shown below. Logon to Domain Controller server and open Group Policy Management snap-in from Start → Administrative tools → Group Policy Management. The client machine MBG-CL2 where windows updates needs to be disabled is under the OU “mustbegeek.local\Prod\Billing”. The domain controller is running on Windows Server 2008 R2. In this example, Windows client MBG-CL2 is already joined to the Active Directory domain called mustbegeek.local. How to Disable Windows Update using Group Policy This article shows how to disable windows update using group policy. For example some companies might use 3rd party products for managing and rolling out Windows Updates. But because of specific business requirement you may need to disable the windows updates. Disabling windows update is not recommended. These updates include feature enhancements, driver updates, service packs, security updates, critical updates and other updates. Windows update is an essential service from Microsoft to ensure that all Windows devices will be updated with latest updates.
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