Maintenance Windows on Servers

Question

Hello,

How do we set a Maintenance Windows for a Windows Server 2016?
We are using Active Directory but not SCCM.

• Patching
• Hardware repair
• ...

We want to know when the server reboot if needed and do it in a specific window.

Thanks,
Dom

Answer 1

You can follow along here.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-server-update-services/deploy/4-configure-group-policy-settings-for-automatic-updates

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Answer 2

Hi DucheminDominique-7551,

Use a WSUS server to define update window. This is recommended by Microsoft.

Please see the following article related to maintenance windows with server 2016:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/clients/manage/collections/use-maintenance-windows

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