{"id":1392,"date":"2017-06-09T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T19:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:34:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:34:04","slug":"how-to-modify-timing-of-windows-updates-in-windows-server-2016-to-control-timing-of-updates-and-restarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/how-to-modify-timing-of-windows-updates-in-windows-server-2016-to-control-timing-of-updates-and-restarts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to modify timing of Windows Updates in Windows Server 2016 to control timing of updates and restarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our standard template for Windows Server 2016 enables a group policy to automatically download, install and apply (restart if needed) Windows Updates classified as important on a nightly basis around 3am.\u00a0 You can modify and confirm the setting as shown below.<\/p>\n<p>Modify the group policy settings located here. Open Local Group Policy Editor by typing Gpedit.msc. Go to: Computer Configuration \/ Administrative Templates \/ Windows Components \/ Windows Update.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Enable the \u201cConfigure Automatic Updates\u201d group policy. Use value of 4 for auto download\/install. Select the scheduled and time (screenshow below shows every Monday at 3am; we usually use Every Day at 3am). Do NOT check the automatic maintenance box.<\/li>\n<li>Enable the \u201cAlways automatically restart at the schedule time\u201d group policy. This will allow reboots\/restarts approximately 15 minutes after the updates are installed. NOTE: The restart timer can\u2019t be postponed once started and a restart will occur even if users are signed on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>SCREENSHOTS BELOW:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1393\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Always-automatically-restart-at-the-scheduled-time-300x279.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Always-automatically-restart-at-the-scheduled-time-300x279.png 300w, https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Always-automatically-restart-at-the-scheduled-time.png 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1394\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Configure-Automatic-Updates-300x220.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Configure-Automatic-Updates-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Configure-Automatic-Updates-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Configure-Automatic-Updates-1024x753.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Configure-Automatic-Updates.png 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1395\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Windows-Update-group-policy-screen-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Windows-Update-group-policy-screen-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Windows-Update-group-policy-screen-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Windows-Update-group-policy-screen.png 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our standard template for Windows Server 2016 enables a group policy to automatically download, install and apply (restart if needed) Windows Updates classified as important on a nightly basis around 3am.\u00a0 You can modify and confirm the setting as shown below. Modify the group policy settings located here. Open Local Group Policy Editor by typing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}