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Hey Domino, we have one or two sites were the link is quite slow so I don't want to risk any machines downloading during school time and taking up all the bandwidth. I may be being over cautious but it's happened before unfortunately, it'd give me piece of mind If i know the clients are only downloading 'out of hours'

Yeah, well I was thinking of waking them with a scheduled task shortly before initiating a download and install. Do you know any scripts that can check, download and install ?

But if a batch of updates are approved doesn't the clients download when the GPO detection frequency occur? The main priority is that I need to ensure the clients do not download updates during the day at any point. Even if the detection frequency is at the maximum which is at 22 hours there is still a risk that a computer may fall out of sync if you know what I mean and the frequency kicks in during day time.. I may be mistaken..

Hi I am implementing WSUS and would like some ideas. I have installed WSUS on a 2012 R2 box with a test group of PCS. I have now been requested to only have workstations download updates then install out of hours I am strugling to get this to work.. WSUS seems to download approved updates when the 'detection frequency' occurs but I can't risk any workstation at all performing this in 'office hours' the only way I can think of doing this is to set the Automatic updates GPO option to Option 2, Notify of download and notify of install. Then roll out a scheduled task to run a script on each client that downloads and installs as per the scheduled task time. I attempted this but my scripting skills aren't the best! Does anyone have any ideas or have come across this scenario? I would say this is quite similar to what most schools/colleges do for the servers also. Any sample scripts would be great also.. Thanks - Mark