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Based on anecdotal stories about Windows 10 updating in the middle of gamers' live streams, I can just imagine the frustration of conferencing with an important

by heywire 10y ago

Based on anecdotal stories about Windows 10 updating in the middle of gamers' live streams, I can just imagine the frustration of conferencing with an important client when BAM! Windows is applying updates, 1 of 198.

doikor 10y ago
That is why corporations have the ability to defer updates if they want to. Personally I've found that shutting your PC at the end of the workday means the updates will always get installed then and not during the day.
- heywire 10y ago
  Good point. I wish the large corporation I work for would do this.
  - keithpeter 10y ago
    In the fairly small organisation (1000+ screens in two sites) I work in the PCs switch themselves on overnight and do the updates then. I gather the updates are pushed from a server after being tested by the IT support chaps.
    - heywire 10y ago
      That is certainly ideal. Unfortunately, many (maybe even most) of the machines here are laptops which are taken home each night. I could probably overlook the Windows updates if it weren't for the noon full-disk virus scan every day, but that's a topic for another day :)
      - brazzledazzle 10y ago
        Noon full-disk virus scan even once a week is a great way to alienate your user base. If your enterprise AV doesn't support "start at a scheduled time or if sleeping/off start upon next wake/power on" then you need a new enterprise AV suite. If not that at least temporary deferment.
      - keithpeter 10y ago
        Yeah, laptops are a pain. We have laptop trollies with 30 machines in each trolley (education). The techies pull in each trolley in rotation to do updates.
WorldMaker 10y ago
A lot of the anecdotal stories occur because Windows defaults its "don't update during these hours" to the 9-5 business hours and most gamers obviously aren't gaming during 9-5. On the flipside, the 9-5 default should work great for the Hub.

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Based on anecdotal stories about Windows 10 updating in the middle of gamers' live streams, I can just imagine the frustration of conferencing with an important

by heywire 10y ago

doikor 10y ago
That is why corporations have the ability to defer updates if they want to. Personally I've found that shutting your PC at the end of the workday means the updates will always get installed then and not during the day.
- heywire 10y ago
  Good point. I wish the large corporation I work for would do this.
  - keithpeter 10y ago
    In the fairly small organisation (1000+ screens in two sites) I work in the PCs switch themselves on overnight and do the updates then. I gather the updates are pushed from a server after being tested by the IT support chaps.
    - heywire 10y ago
      That is certainly ideal. Unfortunately, many (maybe even most) of the machines here are laptops which are taken home each night. I could probably overlook the Windows updates if it weren't for the noon full-disk virus scan every day, but that's a topic for another day :)
      - brazzledazzle 10y ago
        Noon full-disk virus scan even once a week is a great way to alienate your user base. If your enterprise AV doesn't support "start at a scheduled time or if sleeping/off start upon next wake/power on" then you need a new enterprise AV suite. If not that at least temporary deferment.
      - keithpeter 10y ago
        Yeah, laptops are a pain. We have laptop trollies with 30 machines in each trolley (education). The techies pull in each trolley in rotation to do updates.
WorldMaker 10y ago
A lot of the anecdotal stories occur because Windows defaults its "don't update during these hours" to the 9-5 business hours and most gamers obviously aren't gaming during 9-5. On the flipside, the 9-5 default should work great for the Hub.