Update policy CSP
Observed content change
1 new passage (about 40 words). The changed wording mentions settings and controls. Review the source to confirm the effect.
May need admin actionCheck the settings the wording names.
[added: Note If any Windows Update policies are delivered through GP and IgnoreWindowsUpdateGroupPolicies is enabled, those policies will be ignored. Therefore, this policy is optional for] …
Short quotes of Microsoft's changed wording from Microsoft source, © Microsoft Corporation. Read the page for the full text.
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Sections to inspect
Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.
Why this was flagged
The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: settings and controls. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.
Observation details · observed 19 Oct 00:38 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- 19 Oct 00:38 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 16 Oct 17:38 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 00:44 UTC
- Next check due
- 21 Oct 00:44 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 19 Oct 00:38 UTC- 1 date
- 4 relative periods
- 47 undated sections
- 71 with conditions
- 1 recorded change
- 10 months ago
YYYY-MM-DD
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 2025AllowAutoUpdateAllowOptionalContentConfigureDeadlineForFeatureUpdatesConfigureDeadlineForQualityUpdatesConfigureDeadlineGracePeriodIgnoreWindowsUpdateGroupPoliciesPauseFeatureUpdatesStartTimePauseQualityUpdatesStartTimePhoneUpdateRestrictionsSemi-AnnualUpdateServiceUrl
Relative periods
Counted from an event the source describes, such as installing an update; they are not calendar dates.
WindowsTargetVersioninfoWindowsTargetVersioninfoWindowsTargetVersioninfo
Requirements, exceptions and scope
This CSP contains some settings that are under development and only applicable for Windows Insider Preview builds. These settings are subject to change and may…
IgnoreWindowsUpdateGroupPoliciesAllowOptionalContentSemi-AnnualPauseFeatureUpdatesStartTimePauseQualityUpdatesStartTimeUpdateServiceUrlConfigureDeadlineForQualityUpdatesConfigureDeadlineForFeatureUpdatesConfigureDeadlineGracePeriodAllowAutoUpdateAllowAutoUpdateAllowAutoUpdateAllowAutoUpdateAllowAutoUpdateAllowAutoUpdateAllowAutoUpdatePhoneUpdateRestrictions
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.
Observed history and review priority
Captured 19 Oct 00:38 UTC; extracted 19 Oct 00:38 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.
Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Publisher marks guidance tentative · Applicability or exceptions require review
0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 1 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 · 3
Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.
- 19 Oct 00:38 UTC · 92 candidates
- 13 Oct 00:39 UTC · 91 candidates
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC · 92 candidates
Related public evidence
No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.
Retained observations
- 19 Oct 00:38 UTC · shown above
- 13 Oct 00:39 UTC
8 removed passages (about 50 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC
Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.
What changed
First observed 18 Oct 2026- 19 Oct 2026 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.