Win 10 (1903)........Classic "Catch 22" ?

[Markverhyden]

@Computer Bloke

It's dangerous to go alone... take this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"AUOptions"=dword:00000004
"ScheduledInstallDay"=dword:00000000
"ScheduledInstallTime"=dword:00000001

Save that in a .reg file, it'll configure the group policy on the station in question to automatically update at 1am. Feel free to change the time as needed. The install day of 0 means every day, 1 is Sunday, 7 is Saturday.

Once set these registry values will override the settings in the Windows Update applet, and I find they do a far better job of keeping machines updated. If the Internet is there at all, these should help.

Oh, and one more thing. This works on Server 2016/2019 as well, so if you want automatic updates to work like they did with Server 2012 and prior... this .reg is how you do it.

I'll be testing this as well. If it works as advertised you've found the holy grail!

 

[Sky-Knight]

@Markverhyden It works, I've been using it for ages. This thing is how I keep non-domain joined servers updated. I have my hyper-V hosts on single server networks using this once a week to keep patches deployed, but a bit slower than the rest because they only fire once a week instead of daily.

If you want more: https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/security-updates/windowsupdateservices/18127152

Because yeah... Microsoft forgot how to make a GUI. There's another doc here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-configure-wufb that has the registry keys to control feature update delays etc, on Win10 1607+ if you want to go crazy.

Honestly I just want the things to update reliably and reboot, that 1am is install time, I've had servers restart as late as 3am... so give them time!

 

[Galdorf]

there seems to be an issue with seeing computers on the same network with 1903 and yes i checked to make sure discovery as on and it was seems to be broken again.

 

[Umbra]

Always clean installed every build with ISO on a USB, never had issues. In fact, It is because I never had any issues i totally avoid upgrades using Windows Updates.