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Rich,<br />
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No, actually I hadn't. I'm ashamed to admit that it didn't even occur to me. Thank you so much for your quick response.
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Rich,

No, actually I hadn't. I'm ashamed to admit that it didn't even occur to me. Thank you so much for your quick response.

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Setting the start type can be done in PowerShell with running just <b>Set-Service wuauserv -StartType Disabled</b>.
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Setting the start type can be done in PowerShell with running just Set-Service wuauserv -StartType Disabled.

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Hello,<br />
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I have multiple servers that are all running a management software that handles patch management. I would like to run a script that via powershell that will disable the windows update service so that it and my patch management software are not always arguing on who gets to install which patch.<br />
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Any assistance would be appreciated.<br />
<br />
Christopher
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Hello,

I have multiple servers that are all running a management software that handles patch management. I would like to run a script that via powershell that will disable the windows update service so that it and my patch management software are not always arguing on who gets to install which patch.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Christopher

Disable Windows Update on Windows Server 2012

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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.