WIndows Updates Deployment - Downloading

I have SCCM 2012 SP1. I have several templates setup, when deploying windows updates.
For Non-Critical systems, updates are downloaded and installed.
for Critical \ Business Systems, we have decided to push updates 2nd Saturday of each month. However, it possible to push updates to clients, stating that Updates are Available, but not downloaded or installed ? this
way, the owner of the system can look in Software Center, and see what updates are available and manually download and installed approved updates ?
Thank you for you time...

Hi,
If you deploy the software updates as "available" instead of "required" then the updates are available in the Software Center for selection and manual deployment instead of automatically install the updates.
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