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.Over on Computerworld I have an article about how Windows Update for Business isn’t just for business. I use it all the time on my standalone machines
[See the full post at: Windows Update for Business isn’t just]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
From the twitter thread:
“If you have been managing PCs since Win. 7 and are now moving to “The Cloud” / “Co-management”, please remove (or thoroughly inventory) every GPO you have ever set on the devices you manage. Or at least the Windows Update ones.”
That seems like very important sentece 
Dell Latitude 3420, Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM, W10 22H2 Enterprise
HAL3000, AMD Athlon 200GE @ 3,4 GHz, 8GB RAM, Fedora 29
PRUSA i3 MK3S+
Actually, v1909 was the last to have the Quality and Feature deferral pulldowns in the GUI.
Microsoft said it confused Users, so they removed them..
[facepalm]
Yes. Giving users greater control is confusing indeed. I love the MS doublespeak.
GreatAndPowerfulTech
It is easy for those of us on this site who are IT Pros or Tech Enthusiasts to remember that the vast majority of Windows Users are neither. We, on the other hand, have grown used to digging into Windows to make it work the way we want. They just want to use their systems without problems. They don’t care about the difference between a Quality update and a Feature update. They don’t want to have to figure out different deferrals and other ways to avoid updates. They don’t want to have to call their support person (i.e. me or some friend or other family member) to figure out how to update or not.
Microsoft is trying to make it easiest on most people while still giving those who are inclined the mechanism to tinker.
--Joe
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