My Windows Server 2016 will not check for updates unless I press the "Check for updates" button. This is a problem because it automatically installs updates after checking. All I want to do is see if there are updates available. I don't want to install them.
I paid $499 to Microsoft and they could not figure this out. They said the only thing I can do is configure the local policy. Their English was terrible and they put me on hold almost a dozen times. Several times, they came back from hold and completely forgot why they put me on hold so I had to explain everything again. I gave up on them and tried to configure a policy to check for updates as follows:
I enabled "Automatic Updates detection frequency" and set it to 22-hours. This setting states that these settings must be enabled/configured for it to work:
"Configure Automatic Updates"
"Specify intranet Microsoft update service location"
I enabled "Configure Automatic Updates" and set to "3 - Auto download/notify.
I don't know how to configure "Specify intranet Microsoft update service location" to use Microsoft's servers. I don't have a WSUS server.
Anyone know how to make a Windows Server 2016 automatically check for updates without installing them and without WSUS?
Thank you in advance!