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we had a group policy that was allowing automatic windows updates being performed from a server running Microsoft SBS 2003. &nbsp;We migrated the domain to a new server running Microsoft Server 2012 R2. &nbsp;Once migrated the automatic updates are not working. &nbsp;The users are getting the message to do windows updates but they are not happening automatically and if you try to check for updates manually if fails on all pc's.
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we had a group policy that was allowing automatic windows updates being performed from a server running Microsoft SBS 2003.  We migrated the domain to a new server running Microsoft Server 2012 R2.  Once migrated the automatic updates are not working.  The users are getting the message to do windows updates but they are not happening automatically and if you try to check for updates manually if fails on all pc's.

group policy auto updates not working after upgrade

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

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