Is this the so-called "Creator's Update"?
I have for a long time set all my ethernet connection to "metered" via a
registry hack. I leave the WiFi connection turned off, except when I
want updates to run. It works for me, as it leaves me in charge of
exactly when the updates run.
bp
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On 4/17/2017 8:15 AM, Paul McCall wrote:
What are you guys doing to control Windows 10 update from downloading
updates whenever it wants to? Windows used to have a setting for when
it would download and install, and now that setting (IF have you have
access to the Group Policy editor - some Win versions supposedly don')
only allows defining when it will INSTALL the updates and not when it
downloads them. You can make the update process manual I think
through settings, but customers won't ever update then, introducing
other issues. So, that isnt a great workaround. You can also set an
interface to �metered� which means it won�t DL until it gets an
unmetered connection but that won�t help either.
Today 3 customers (plus my PC) were killing an AP, all connected to
Microsoft presumably downloading updates as mine was from that IP.
That is what my PC was doing when I caught the problem. All customers
and myself were connected to the same MS IP address.
Even if customers had access to GPEDIT, and if it had that ability,
talking customers through that would have been a not fun job for tech
support for all the Win10 devices out there now. Supposedly, not all
versions of Win 10 have access to GPEDIT easily. GPEDIT does have a
setting for maximum DL for updates which helps but that would only
slow things down for a loooong time to get updaes. Much better to
have it do full updates after midnight.
Was wondering if there was something that could be defined at the
customers CPE Mikrotik (in place at 95% of our customers) or at the
tower Mikrotik.
There has to be some solution.
Paul McCall, President
PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc.
658 Old Dixie Highway
Vero Beach, FL 32962
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