Windows Automatic Updates

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Omar Sanchez

Lets say the Windows automatic updates are set to
download and install without user intervention at 3am.
If the user never has the machine running at that time,
will the updates ever happen? Does the machine HAVE to
be on at the exact time of the scheduled update or will
it queue updates and install them the next time the
computer is started?
 
The computer must be turned-on and internet access enabled
before updates can be download and installed. Otherwise, the
updates will be downloaded and installed the next time the
computer is booted-up.

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Nicholas

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| Lets say the Windows automatic updates are set to
| download and install without user intervention at 3am.
| If the user never has the machine running at that time,
| will the updates ever happen? Does the machine HAVE to
| be on at the exact time of the scheduled update or will
| it queue updates and install them the next time the
| computer is started?
 
My question:

If the updates have already been downloaded but not
installed, and the machine is turned off at the time of
the scheduled install, then will updates automatically
install the next time the computer is booted up?

My problem:

I tried this on a machine. I set it up to automatically
download and install the updates itself.

The first thing that happends is a notification popup
saying that the updates are ready would you like to
istall now. This is a nice option but is only given to
those who are in the admin group. Power users are never
shown when updates are ready.

Now that the updates have been downloaded, I scheduled an
automatic install 10 min later and proceeded to turn off
the machine. 30 min later I restarted the machine and
waited for it to automatically update itself. It did
not. Has anyone else tried this?
 
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