Windows® 7 Resource Kit

Windows Update Group Policy Settings

You can configure Windows Update client settings using local or domain Group Policy settings. This is useful for the following tasks:

• Configuring computers to use a local WSUS server

• Configuring automatic installation of updates at a specific time of day

• Configuring how often to check for updates

• Configuring update notifications, including whether non-administrators receive update notifications

• Configuring client computers as part of a WSUS target group, which you can use to deploy different updates to different groups of computers

Windows Update settings are located at Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update. The Windows Update Group Policy settings are:

• Configure Automatic ...