Automatic Update Group Policy

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Tom Treadway

The domain server at work has enforced a group policy that enables automatic
updates at a specific time each day. The options are also grayed out so I
can't change anything or disable auto updates. This is in the Automatic
Updates screen via Security Advisor in XP Pro SP2.

How do I disable this group policy? I assume there is a registry setting
that I can modify, but I can't find it.

Thanks,
TT
 
Your machine is a member of a domain, and obeys policy
being set from the AD level. This is how it will be as long as
your machine is joined to the domain. Anything you as an
admin do to change this will get changed back by policy.
Even with wuau policies enforced, you may still be allowed
to manually visit windows update.
 
Right. And if I understand correctly, the policy will be enforced every
time I login to the domain and periodically depending on a timer on the
domain server. But is there a way to just turn it off temporarily when I'm
at home and not on the domain?

TT
 
I had the same problem and I created a New Organizational Unit and moved the
user(s) from the policy-aplied Organizational Unit to the new one, then I
restarted my computer and as no policies were configured for the new OU no
policies aplied for my PC.
 
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