Manual update

[Guest]

The Windows Update page seems to be disabled in my company environment, and I
am unable to run the Updater in Defender either (error code 0x80070422). The
updates for Windows are delivered to the computers by a custom solution. I
don't see a chance to get the Defender updates this way.
Is there a possibility to manually download and install the updates?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Not a problem--thanks for doing the research!
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Great, I just found out, that the question for the manual update has
already
been discussed. Sorry fo the duplicate...

 

[Guest]

Can't find any way to manually update my defender, now 57 days out of date.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Have you tried going to Windows Update?

I posted the direct URL for yesterdays update in .Announcements late
yesterday--see if you can spot that post.

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[Guest]

You can schedule your own Windows Defender definition updates.

1. Create the following bat file:
C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\WDSignatureUpdate.bat

@echo off
"C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" SignatureUpdate

2. Create the following scheduled task:
"C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\WDSignatureUpdate.bat.lnk"

Schedule the task to run whenever and as frequently as you want.

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

Definitely, but only if autoupdate is, in fact working--not clear given the
original post.

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