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Windows Deployment Services hardening

Timelines and exceptions · All guidance changes

Windows Server · Official Microsoft guidance

No content change seen yet. Watched since 12 Oct 19:19 UTC, last read 19 Oct 23:40 UTC, next check today 23:40 UTC.

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Timeline

From the capture of 12 Oct 19:19 UTC
Published timing needs confirmation 14 Apr 2026 most recent · 6 months ago
  1. on or after 13 Jan 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  2. Enforced by defaultafter April 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  3. Retired / removedafter 14 Apr 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  1. 5 months agomonth windowrange
  2. 9 months agoon or after
    • Timeline of changesMilestone
    • Take action!Milestone
    • Phase 1 (January 13, 2026)MilestoneExceptionRecommendation2 conditions
      CVE-2026-0386AllowHandsFreeFunctionality
    • DWORD namein Phase 1 (January 13, 2026)Milestone
      CurrentControlSetWdsImgSrvAllowHandsFreeFunctionality
    • Value datain Phase 1 (January 13, 2026)Milestone
      CurrentControlSetWdsImgSrv
    • Notesin Phase 1 (January 13, 2026)MilestoneRequirementException1 condition
      CurrentControlSetWdsImgSrv
    • Notein Phase 1 (January 13, 2026)Milestone1 condition
      CurrentControlSetWdsImgSrv
    • Absent (Default)in Phase 1 (January 13, 2026)Milestone
    • dword:00000000in Phase 1 (January 13, 2026)Milestone
    • dword:00000001in Phase 1 (January 13, 2026)Milestone
  3. 5 months agomonth windowafterEnforced by default · unconfirmed
    • Notesin Phase 1 (January 13, 2026)MilestoneRequirementException1 condition
      CurrentControlSetWdsImgSrv
  4. 6 months agoafteron or afterRetired / removed · unconfirmed

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.

Requirements, exceptions and scope

  • IntroductionScope1 passage
    Windows Deployment Services (WDS) supports network-based deployment of Windows operating systems. A commonly used feature—hands-free deployment—relies on an Answer file (also known as an Unattend.xml…
  • SummaryException1 condition1 passage
  • Timeline of changesRequirementException1 condition1 passage
  • Event loggingRecommendation1 passage
Microsoft's revision log on this page · 1 entry

Dates from the page's own change log or history section. They describe earlier edits, not upcoming policy.

  • April 14, 2026 · on or after April 14, 2026Change logMilestoneRequirement

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. Microsoft logged an addition Change logMicrosoft's change log
Observed history and review priority

Captured 12 Oct 19:19 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:10 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.

Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 0 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.

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

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

No field changes in the recorded history.

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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