WSUS pushing out Windows 10 upgrades

Vertigo · 11 Apr 2016 at 14:44

Just noticed that some of my client machines are showing the Windows 10 upgrade in the system tray!

Checked the WSUS server and the upgrades in question are showing as "Not Approved", because they aren't in my auto-approvals list (duh!) yet are obviously still being pushed out to clients and showing as needed updates.

Err, what the hell is going on?

Vertigo · 11 Apr 2016 at 17:47

Luckily we're a small enough outfit (50-ish) that I can send a scary email round saying "don't you dare!" and people will refrain.

Just annoyed that it's suddenly done an end-run around the WSUS setup.

This seems relevant: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-angers-system-administrators-with-new-windows-10-upgrade-push

Vertigo · 12 Apr 2016 at 10:13

We're on Pro here - vast majority of licences came OEM with the machines so they're all eligible for the free upgrade but they're all hooked up to WSUS via group policy.

Vertigo · 12 Apr 2016 at 10:14

Rroff said:
Wow that could really mess things up for some businesses.

EDIT: Ah looks like in most cases it just notifies that the update is blocked by the administrator.

If the user isn't a local admin yes. If they are then they can perform the upgrade.

As I said, as we have a fairly small and trustworthy staff, many people are in fact local admins as it makes installs/maintenance much easier.