Microsoft.Policies.WindowsUpdate• Machine
Select when Quality Updates are received
Enable this policy to specify when to receive quality updates. You can defer receiving quality updates for up to 30 days. To prevent quality updates from being received on their scheduled time, you can temporarily pause quality updates. The pause will remain in effect for 35 days or until you clear the start date field. To resume receiving Quality Updates which are paused, clear the start date field. If you disable or do not configure this policy, Windows Update will not alter its behavior.
Policy Details
- Policy Name
- DeferQualityUpdates
- Registry Key
- Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
- Value Name
- DeferQualityUpdates
- Supported On
- At least Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10
- Policy State Values
- Enabled: 1Disabled: 0
- Available Languages
- en-us
Configuration Elements
(format yyyy-mm-dd example: 2016-10-30)
After a quality update is released, defer receiving it for this many days:
Type: decimal
Default: 0
Min: 0
Max: 30
Pause Quality Updates starting
Type: text
Max length: 10