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Windows 8.1 users are reporting, and I have verified, that they are not being prompted to install Windows updates while shutting down, even though the updates are downloaded. Here are the relevant Windows Update gpo's from a sample Group Policy Result
for a typical user on one of our Windows 8.1 workstations:
(Note: The "Specify intranet Microsoft update service location" is the last policy in the updates section, and the value specified there is not relevant to this question.)
These same settings when applied to Windows XP workstations used to prompt users to install updates at shutdown. That is, the default shutdown option was "Install Updates and Shutdown". That was a great workflow because all client workstations
were shut down every night and the user didn't have to worry about updates installing while they were using the workstation. All client workstations are now running Windows 8.1 Pro and the only way updates are getting installed is by manually pulling
up the Windows Update dialog and initiating updates from there. That is even worse than automatic updates that install during business hours.
I do notice that
a notification that updates are available appears in the login screen, but one can not take action upon it from there, and most users don't know how to find the update screen once they sign in; and
once updating is begun, then the Install Updates and Shutdown option becomes a default - but by that point its rather cosmetic: that is the only option (to configure the partially installed updates during shutdown) and there is nothing
that could be done to NOT do that at that point.
Is anyone having similar issues? As far as I can tell right now, there is no ability to actually switch the user's default option to
Install Updates and Shutdown in the same way as in previous Windows editions even though the GPO is identical.

Hi,
>>Is anyone having similar issues? As far as I can tell right now, there is no ability to actually switch the user's default option to
Install Updates and Shutdown in the same way as in previous Windows editions even though the GPO is identical.
Regarding this point, the following blog may provide a good explanation.
Minimizing restarts after automatic updating in Windows Update
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/11/14/minimizing-restarts-after-automatic-updating-in-windows-update.aspx
Best regards,
Frank Shen

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