Approval Schedule and Information
Microsoft releases scheduled patches the first Tuesday of every month. They are approved on the the Thursday of the week they are released. Out-of-band patches and some patches deemed critical enough are approved after 1 business day instead.
Major upgrades (such as IE upgrades, Windows and Office Service Packs, etc) may be delayed at the discretion of Support Systems.
Maintenance Windows
Maintenance will be performed during ESS maintenance windows. Outages or downtime will not be communicated because they should have no visible impact to clients.
WSUS GPO and Windows Update Settings
Please note the settings provided below are simply a sample of one of the GPOs available. Different settings can be applied based on the needs of the department or IT group.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate] "TargetGroupEnabled"=dword:00000001 "TargetGroup"="UITSC" "ElevateNonAdmins"=dword:00000000 "WUServer"="http://tabvmwsus1.tufts.ad.tufts.edu" "WUStatusServer"="http://tabvmwsus1.tufts.ad.tufts.edu" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU] "NoAUShutdownOption"=dword:00000000 "NoAUAsDefaultShutdownOption"=dword:00000000 "NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000000 "AUOptions"=dword:00000004 "ScheduledInstallDay"=dword:00000000 "ScheduledInstallTime"=dword:00000003 "RescheduleWaitTimeEnabled"=dword:00000001 "RescheduleWaitTime"=dword:00000001 "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001 "DetectionFrequencyEnabled"=dword:00000001 "DetectionFrequency"=dword:00000016 "AutoInstallMinorUpdates"=dword:00000000 "RebootWarningTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000001 "RebootWarningTimeout"=dword:00000005 "RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000001 "RebootRelaunchTimeout"=dword:0000000a "UseWUServer"=dword:00000001