October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
1760 pages
93h 25m
English
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 ...