Setting the Group Policy to turn off Automatic Updates Manually
Posted
Sunday, August 28, 2005 3:29 PM
by
Anonymous
If you have machines that are not part of the domain or you do not want to wait until a reboot to turn off the Automatic Updates feature, you can set the registry entries manually through an SMS Package by doing the following:
Copy the following information into a file called disableautoupdates.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001
Create a SMS Package that includes the file disableautoupdates.reg with the following command line:
regedit /s disableautoupdates.reg
This process wil also work if you have Workgroup machines that cannot receive this registry setting through Group Policy.