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06.11.2008 at 11:21AM PDT, ID: 23476836
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Help with Windows Update Policy on Servers

Asked by vmrfadmin in Network Management, Windows 2003 Server

Tags: Microsoft, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Version 5.2, Group Policy

Hey Everyone,

I am having a problem with the Windows Update Policy on my servers. I have our default domain policy set to have all computers download updates and install at a scheduled time. However, I don't want this done on our servers. I have set the group policy on our servers to "disabled" so that they will not get updates automatically. The problem is they are still getting the updates and installing them even though my policy is set to disabled. I checked Automatic Updates on the individual servers and sure enough they are grayed out, and show as being set to check for updates daily.  This would be correct if I was wanting to use the default policy. It appears that even though I have the servers' policy set to disabled the default domain policy is over-riding that.  I am fairly new to group policy and don't understand why the default policy would over-ride my servers policy.  Any suggestions or ideas of what I need to do differently?  

Thank you,
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Tags: Microsoft, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Version 5.2, Group Policy
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