Windows 11 Education

[aac]

Hi All

 

I am looking to deploy Windows 11 Education this year (Currently running 10 LTSC). I am having issues with the Store Apps none of which are updating. Firstly for all users except admins the store is blocked in group policy user configuration but even if I login as an admin and open the store and select get updates no updates are being found but if I try to launch an app it just states the app needs an update, but were unable to apply the update right now. Any ideas as to what may be causing this?

 

thanks in advance

[jthompson]

How are you managing Windows Updates more generally? WSUS or WUfB? If it's WSUS I wonder if there's some Group Policy or WSUS product selection that's in the mix.

[Olliedawg]

If you use it, take a look at applocker, I had issues initially with policies blocking certain aspects of Win11, such as settings & a few other things.. Create a test OU & duplicate your applocker GPO to it, set the new duplicate applocker policy to audit only & then test

 

As jthompson said - is there a group policy defining a product version (Windows 10 22H2) for example, thus not allowing further updates?

[aac]

Finally resolved the issue which was 2 fold. Set the group policy "Do not connect to Windows update service locations" to Disabled and then found the Sophos firewall was blocking Store Apps from updating under the "Risky downloads" category. "System files" which is a sub category of "Risky Downloads" has been allowed which in turn has resolved the issue...