I asked this question a few weeks ago, and I am wondering if anything has really changed. I had a lot of issues with 2004 and backed it out. How reliable is the current version of 2004? Is there a cumulative update on the way? If so, should I just wait for it instead of wrestling with 2004 right now?
If you don't need something that is only on new 2004, stay with 1909. Specially if you had many issues with 2004.
There's always a cumulative update on its way, like all previous versions there's a new one every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Since release on 27th May there have been five CUs, three of them the regular 'Patch Tuesday' updates.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4555932
2004 has proved to be stable on all my machines that I have updated, but if you've had issues I'd stick with 1909 for as long as you want. There's nothing significantly new in 2004 to make it worth wrestling with it, and 1909 is in full support until May 2021.
Thanks for the replies folks. I am going to stay with 1909 and see how things go. I appreciate the responses.
Even if 1909's support is officially supposed to last until may Windows might begin a forced upgrade sooner than that depending on the system's placement in the queue. It happened to me with 1809 a month or so before its support ended.There's always a cumulative update on its way, like all previous versions there's a new one every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Since release on 27th May there have been five CUs, three of them the regular 'Patch Tuesday' updates.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4555932
2004 has proved to be stable on all my machines that I have updated, but if you've had issues I'd stick with 1909 for as long as you want. There's nothing significantly new in 2004 to make it worth wrestling with it, and 1909 is in full support until May 2021.
Yes, a feature update is only optional until at or near end of support for your current version. MS typically start to trigger the automatic update around three months before end of support, but only for a few machines to begin with. As end of support approaches MS ramp up the rollout. After end of support all machines would be forced to update.
But by May 2021 it won't be updating to 2004, by then the current version will be at least 2009 (expected to be released around the end of October or early November). It's just possible that the version after that (2104?) may be out by then. If so the sensible course of action would be to choose to update before that one gets released. You wouldn't want a brand new release with (potentially) new bugs, and by then 2004/2009 should be as reliable as 1909 is now.
Last year, before I got 1909 as an automatic upgrade over 1809, the 1909 update was listed as optional in settings until one day it showed up in wushowhide.diagcab, and since I check for updates with it every day I hid it, and the notification for it had disappeared from settings. Most probably not because of hiding the update but because it became an automatic one, although notifications for optional updates will indeed disappear if the updates are hidden in any way.
I hope the feature updates can still be hidden this way atleast until Microsoft really forces the update remotely, which according to some news post is a possibility with very out of date systems, or so I gathered.
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