How can I disable, turn off, suppress or otherwise eliminate the Windows Update notification that wants to remind me that updates have been applied and give me the option to postpone or reboot computer to finish the update process?
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Hi @blmclaws
I’m using patchmanagement also, but have no idea what exactly you are referring to?
The reboot etc after the update and how long etc you can postpone it, is something you create yourself.
If you create an action, you can choose in the tab “Post Action” what to do after the action. If you there select “Do nothing after action group completes”, then there will be no reboot/message etc.
Is that what you mean? Or is there something else you are referring to?
They may be referring to the Windows dialog box that appears in the bottom right corner of the screen.
If you don’t want this to display, it usually requires a GPO change. If there is an AD GPO controlling the behavior you should investigate having it modified, or applying an overriding GPO in the same OU, or a parent OU to the one your computer(s) is in.
If there is no Domain GPO controlling the behavior, it may be a default “Local GPO”. See the response from @JasonWalker to THIS THREAD.
I am referring to the Windows dialog box that appears wanting you to restart computer to finish installing important updates. I want that to go away because I am presenting a dialog box from Bigfix with different options and it confuses the end users. I just want the Bigfix one only.
Hi, you should definitely look at the post that @TimRice has said previous to your respons.
Another thing that may interfere with your environment is SCCM. This can push updates etc also and I’ve had the issue that on start up of the machine it says: Windows Updates are available.
Our windows updates were disabled by GPO as mentioned in the post, but due to SCCM we still had that message. After deleting SCCM from the devices (since we didn’t need it, the OU wasn’t excluded in AD), there was no message anymore except the one from BigFix.
Good luck!
Been there Done that. We have BF and SCCM but generally they do not step over each other. I think the GPO settings are the issue, generally they are set to make SCCM happy, but I don’t think SCCM itself causes a bigfix push to pop that message. Don’t see how it could.
I made some GPO changes under: Computer config\policies\Admin templates\windows components-windows update\policy: Do SET most of the settings to Disabled where it makes sense (“allow non admins to receive updates notifications” etc…) and do ENABLE "do not display “install updates and shutdown” option… There’s 4-5 settings you can tweak in there, mostly disabling and only enabling the one above. It’s logical if you read them.
Once changes were made we tested the GPO on a smaller subset, and then enabled it for all the machines, I’ve since been able to use BF and SCCM happily on those without notifications whatsoever. Occasionally I will see a software center icon pop up, but that’s SCCM patching. Not Bigfix !