IT admins rejoice! Microsoft to stop force-installing Windows 11 feature updates on PCs

Wolfzz · May 22, 2024

IT admins rejoice! Microsoft to stop force-installing Windows 11 feature updates on PCs

Microsoft wants to stop force-installing Windows feature updates on managed PCs. The company is now adding a new option to help IT admins and sysadmins to choose how they want to deploy such updates.

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More flexible Windows feature updates

Enable your organization to install Windows feature updates as optional updates.

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cereberus · May 22, 2024

Wolfzz said:
IT admins rejoice! Microsoft to stop force-installing Windows 11 feature updates on PCs

Microsoft wants to stop force-installing Windows feature updates on managed PCs. The company is now adding a new option to help IT admins and sysadmins to choose how they want to deploy such updates.

www.neowin.net

More flexible Windows feature updates

Enable your organization to install Windows feature updates as optional updates.

techcommunity.microsoft.com

Most IT depts do not have this problem, deploying updates via dism or similar anyway.

NormanF · May 22, 2024

The reason LTSC exists is to bypass feature updates altogether.

Businesses can't afford downtime and critical updates ideally should be hot-patched.

Brink · May 22, 2024

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More flexible Windows 11 feature updates

Windows IT Pro Blog: Are you an IT administrator looking for a way to get more out of Windows Update for Business deployment service? If so, we're pleased to announce greater flexibility in Windows feature updates. This new capability allows you to streamline Windows 11 upgrades across your...

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BruceR · May 22, 2024

Starting today, it's even easier for the users at your organization to upgrade early if you offer them feature updates as optional.

cereberus · May 22, 2024

No major company I know would allow users to upgrade early unless tested by IT dept. I have gone on bended knees pleading for an update if needed for any project I work on - deathly silence

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pseymour · May 22, 2024

Upgrading early, in the sense I think you mean it, is not what this is. Used to be, in WUfB, once you deployed a feature update, it was required, and users had basically no say in when it happened. Now, you could, for example, deploy a FU as required with a deadline six months from now, and let those users who want to install it, install it now. That’s what they mean by early: at the user’s leisure before the deadline.

This is not “oh a new feature update is released. Let me install it before IT tests it.”

NormanF · May 22, 2024

Corporate IT departments want security updates and bug fixes.

RJARRRPCGP · May 24, 2024

I'm thinking there should be a hybrid of hot-patching and committing updates to storage, at the least for all Windows users.

Heck, I have Ubuntu Noble on my Comet Lake (10th-gen) build with an Arc A770 8 GB, (24.04) and a bunch of people can get hot-patching, and it's not under an additional paywall.

Ubuntu 24.04, supports Arc well! Then again, Debian and distros based on Debian, have the propensity to have excellent Intel graphics support, out-of-the-box!