Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

45 CHAPTER 3 | Staying secure As I mentioned earlier, users can’t postpone updates from the Windows Update page in Settings, as was possible in earlier versions. But IT pros, network administrators, and power users running Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10 have the option to delay updates using two Group Policy settings formally known as Windows Update for Business. You can find these settings in Group Policy Editor: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Defer Windows Updates. Following are the two Group Policy settings:  Quality Updates These are the cumulative updates that fix security and reliability problems in Windows. You can defer these updates by up to 30 days.  Feature Updates These are the big updates that were once called upgrades and increment the version number—version 1511, version 1607, and so on. Businesses have the option to set delay installation of this type of update on Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education by up to an additional 180 days. Occasionally, an update causes problems on a particular system or in a specific configuration. Fortunately, those instances are rare, but when they do occur, the first step is to remove the update causing the problem. Begin by viewing the Update History page in Settings, as shown in Figure 3-9; then, use the Uninstall Updates link at the top to temporarily remove the problematic update. Figure 3-9: This page in Settings shows all installed updates, with the option to uninstall an update if it appears to be the cause of problems. Updates to device drivers can also be delivered through Windows Update and in some rare cases can cause problems. You need to remove those drivers through the Device Management tool. After removing the problematic update, visit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930 and download a troubleshooter that you can use to hide those updates temporarily. Figure 3-10 shows this troubleshooter in operation.