Windows Server 2016 Slow to Update

[free780]

https://www.askwoody.com/2019/server-2016-ltsc-patches-take-for-e-ver-there-are-numerous-reasons-why-and-not-much-you-can-do-about-it/

 

Automation via SCCM or the Windows Update powershell module kind of works around this. I guess it's Server 2019 or cloud.

[Arthur]

There's quite a lot of unhappy sysadmins on Microsoft's uservoice site...

 

https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/295047-general-feedback/suggestions/32121229-stop-the-windows-update-madness-on-ws2016

 

No response from Microsoft.

[free780]

LTSC releases seem to be 2nd class citizens. The bug was fixed in 1703 but MS want you to move to Server 2019 or shift your workload into Azure.