Some people love them, some people hate them. Maintenance windows are just one tool which we can use to control when deployments are committed to endpoints. I use them for Windows Servers, as we are a traditional 9-5 business, I can set a maintenance window on our servers so that updates and applications (that require a restart) install out of hours, that way, the business impact is minimal and our uptime stays high. Here is a really quick blog post…
I have worked in many environments where access out to external WSUS servers is limited (or not available). This makes sense if you are trying to tightly control the updates that your devices are receiving, but, it does make some of the modern Windows 10 tasks very difficult to manage. For example, if you wanted to install a feature on demand from Settings, you would normally select the Feature that you want to install and it would install. The problem…
Sometimes its necessary to prevent Windows clients from taking any updates from online sources, this is not necessarily the best approach to managing Windows Updates, and should only really be configured if you have a solution such as WSUS or Config Manager in place to push updates to your workstations. Without this, you will not receive any security updates and this could be disastrous for your organisation. You should also be aware that this solution means that Windows cannot install…
I recently experienced Failed to install updates issues with Windows Updates through Config Mgr. Its a reasonably easy error to fix, and quite common, especially if you are deploying large upgrades, such as Service Packs for SQL. The error the reported is 0x8024000B(-2145124341) To resolve this error, open your Config Mgr console. Navigate to Software Library | Software Updates | All Software Updates Locate the KB you are trying to install (Tip, you can search by KB number in the…