Block Update Windows 10

[Senaqua Hildreth]

Youcan have a go at putting these into the Content Filter within the router (best to use firmware 7 and above), if you have a higher end network device, then the there are more categories to help so you may not need to enter all of the domain you find from the above search results.

With such low bandwidth, another options is to only allow access to what they need for the business such as email server, document server, in house servers.

Be aware that if using certain software (such as office 365) they need to frequently verify the licence online or the software becomes either restricted or locked out.

Just as an FYI, I found a list of domains to block to block Windows Update. Only tested on Windows 10 service pack 1909. There may be a domain or two that is not necessary in the list, but the list, as is, works. From here

I don't have Windows 10 yet, so I can't try it for myself, but I thought that if I edited the hosts file and pointed update.windows.com (or whichever URL update uses) to an invalid IP address, that would effectively block Windows from seeing if any updates are available until the line was commented out.

Note: I don't consider this question to be a duplicate of Stopping all automatic updates Windows 10 as it's asking about a certain method. I understand it could be an answer to that question, but I couldn't post it as one without knowing if it works.

Sick and tired of Microsoft Server 2016 downloading Microsoft Updates and rebooting production servers whenever it damn well likes. Thinking of skipping trying to prevent this from the server itself, and just blocking access to those update servers at the firewall. Have an MX64 with the Advanced Security License - what is the best way to go about trying to block updates just for the server, while keeping them available for the desktops/laptops? My thinking is that whatever I use to block it on the router, I could just turn that off once a month when I choose to schedule the updates to be done.

Is there a way to see what's actually blocked by the "Deny Software Updates" rule? Is there a list of URLs or something we can look at to see what actually gets blocked if we apply that rule? I'm trying to figure out if it will break any other software that I might want to continue updating or not.

I think it is a really bad idea to block Windows Updates ... you would be better off creating a group policy to change the servers to "prompt only" to do updates, rather than automatically download and install. Security Updates are usually fairly important.

I agree with @PhilipDAth as annoying as they can be sometimes you are better to change the Windows update settings than stop them completely. Security updates help prevent things like ransomware and the last thing you want is a ransomware attack to happen on your watch because you blocked security updates.

There is probably a more sophisticated way of doing this - but this command line will make Windows scan for new updates, and then install them. So you can run this using task scheduler whenever you want.

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You may want to consider, rather than blocking all updates, managing updates with WSUS. Assuming you have a copy of Windows Server and your clients are in a domain, it's a free option that you can use to only deploy updates when and where you want them.

Its simple go to start menu> control panel (view by small icons)>administrative tools > services. Search for Background intelligent transfer service and windows update ...stop the services and on properties disable them

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my reading of that rule is it will allow downloads during work hours. What sites does your report show as being passed? The site classification might not be correct because not all MS sites are classified. One complaint is that MS keeps adding new sites (URLs).

Then Schedule your windows machine with a time within the time of the schedule rule. So for example set firewall rule time for 2:00 am to 4:00 am. Set windows machine to update within those times. not sure if this is a solution to your problem.

We have a need to prevent windows update traffic to flow thru our network on certain dates. Basically this type of traffic will clog our mpls bandwidth preventing other type of traffic to flow. We are using up to some part QoS on out routers but it not working all the time. Eg, we put in ip address of one windows update server but updates are pulled of the other, then you enter second ip and updates are coming from third, etc.

That is my chalenge; i cannot block http or Native FTP because other business applications are using these protocols. I was wonderign to use regex-type of policy that will look for *microsoft.com* and block all related to this. For dates that i need to implement the policy i am not concern about web access to anything microsoft.com. How is regex used within WSA? Sorry i am new to WSA.

Hi there,

what is the suggested method to block windows & apple updates on OpenWRT?

I have a list of well-known URLs which could be used for this...

Got this, but might be outdated Blocking websites on your router

If you block Win 10 and Microsoft you will probably have other problems after a while since the subcription demands server uplink to verify the license for piracy protection and if the computer is offline to long it will get blocked until verified.

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This blocks any way an Windows Home version can enroll in Intune. If you need other types of devices to still enroll through Personally Owned you can create an Assignment Filter, see here: create-device-platform-restrictions

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