Windows 10: Re-enabling Windows Update online updates after disabling via GPO Windows 10

I've been dealing with this issue for a while. Enterprise wide, we use SCCM for our updates. There are few very specialized workstations that can only be updated manually for a host of reasons. I've created a new GPO for them that basically reverses the one that prevents reaching out to Microsoft update, yet I still get a failure with an 0x80245006 error. There are tons of guides on setting up the GPO to block Windows Update, but I've had no luck finding anything to unblock and allow it.

:)

 

Windows 10 update being enabled.

My experience was that disabling Windows Update service works for a while until suddenly that service is magically enabled again and starts updating everything.

 

Windows 10 update being enabled.

Good to know, i will check later to see if it's still disabled.

 

Windows 10 update being enabled.

I like Winaero Tweaker better. You can use it to disable Windows Update on W10 with one click too. There's also a good article on Winaero.com describing the manual methods for disabling it.