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Observation details · observed 24 Oct 01:28 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
24 Oct 01:28 UTC
Source update metadata
23 Oct 02:47 UTC
First observed on this installation
8 Oct 23:45 UTC
Last successful check
today 01:38 UTC
Next check due
27 Oct 01:38 UTC

Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.

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Timeline

From the capture of 24 Oct 01:28 UTC
Published timing needs confirmation 16 Dec 2025 most recent · 10 months ago
  1. 10 months ago

Settings and overrides named on this page

Registry values, policies and cmdlets the source mentions, with the dated steps that name them. Read the source for the values to set.

  • YYYY-MM-DD16 Dec 2025
  • AllowAutoUpdate
  • AllowOptionalContent
  • ConfigureDeadlineForFeatureUpdates
  • ConfigureDeadlineForQualityUpdates
  • ConfigureDeadlineGracePeriod
  • IgnoreWindowsUpdateGroupPolicies
  • PauseFeatureUpdatesStartTime
  • PauseQualityUpdatesStartTime
  • PhoneUpdateRestrictions
  • Semi-Annual
  • UpdateServiceUrl

Relative periods

Counted from an event the source describes, such as installing an update; they are not calendar dates.

Requirements, exceptions and scope

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

  1. Recommendation added IgnoreWindowsUpdateGroupPoliciesseen by ChangeIntel
Observed history and review priority

Captured 24 Oct 01:28 UTC; extracted 24 Oct 01:29 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/d9863eb412f92fa5ec3a8ca32e2dd7cfe8095530f456ecb1866608d1166a435d.

Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Publisher marks guidance tentative · Applicability or exceptions require review

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 2 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 24 hours.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 4

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 24 Oct 01:28 UTC · shown above
  • 19 Oct 00:38 UTC

    1 new passage (about 40 words). The changed wording mentions settings and controls. Review the source to confirm the effect.

  • 13 Oct 00:39 UTC

    The page title or its body outside the tracked passages changed. Review the source for its effect.

  • 8 Oct 23:45 UTC

    Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026
  1. 19 Oct 2026 · 00:39:08 UTC Settings namedYYYY-MM-DD, AllowAutoUpdate, AllowOptionalContent, ConfigureDeadlineForFeatureUpdates, ConfigureDeadlineForQualityUpdates, ConfigureDeadlineGracePeriod, PauseFeatureUpdatesStartTime, PauseQualityUpdatesStartTime, PhoneUpdateRestrictions, Semi-Annual, UpdateServiceUrl, WindowsTargetVersioninfo → YYYY-MM-DD, AllowAutoUpdate, AllowOptionalContent, ConfigureDeadlineForFeatureUpdates, ConfigureDeadlineForQualityUpdates, ConfigureDeadlineGracePeriod, IgnoreWindowsUpdateGroupPolicies, PauseFeatureUpdatesStartTime, PauseQualityUpdatesStartTime, PhoneUpdateRestrictions, Semi-Annual, UpdateServiceUrl

The most recent 100 field changes are listed. Complete recorded revisions are kept separately.

Cite this recorded revision to keep the same title, summary, facts and links when the page changes.

A day selects the latest observation by the end of that UTC day; today's selection can change until midnight. History starts when this installation records it.

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