How to Change Update Settings for a Single Host
With Update Management you can change the update settings of Windows hosts.
Before you begin:
How to restrict certain updates to be installed automatically?
You may want to block certain Windows updates to be installed automatically on a host.
- On the Computers page, click next to the computer you want to change.
- For Important updates, select Download updates but let me choose whether to install them from the drop-down list.
- Click Apply Settings.
Results: This way, Windows updates are downloaded to the host, but you can choose which ones to install.
How to prevent hosts from restarting after important updates are installed?
Depending on what option you have selected for installing important updates, you have the following options:
- If you chose Install updates automatically, then you can set a convenient time to install updates and reboot the host without disturbing the person at the host.
- If you chose Download updates but let me choose whether to install them or Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them, then you can schedule the installation and allow a delayed restart. To do so, on the Remember: You cannot set different restart behaviors for important and optional Windows updates.
page, click the number in the Important Updates column. Then select Restart computers if required to install the updates and set when the host should restart.
The Auto-Restart column on the
page displays whether a host had the Restart computers if required to install the updates option applied during the update that started last:- - (a minus symbol) means that updates have not been installed on the host yet
- Off means that the restart option was not selected for the last update
- On means that the restart option was selected for the last update. A clock icon is also displayed if the restart was scheduled.
Notice that the last update may still be running, which impacts what you see in the Auto-Restart column.
Article last updated: 28 September, 2023