WAU Mananger - What exactly can it do and not do?

Matthew Wai · 20 Aug 2020

I just got a notification from VBScript.
Even critical updates will not be installed automatically. I can choose to hide them.

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f14tomcat · 21 Aug 2020

Matthew Wai said:

I just got a notification from VBScript.
Even critical updates will not be installed automatically. I can choose to hide them.

Which one(s) is critical?

Callender · 21 Aug 2020

I guess the one that says "Critical Updates (1)" just above the entry?

Callender · 21 Aug 2020

On another note I'm on 1903 with no version of Edge installed and I'm not offered it.

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That pretty much agrees with PatchFluent:

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f14tomcat · 21 Aug 2020

Callender said:

I guess the one that says "Critical Updates (1)" just above the entry?

oh, ok.... threw me cause I couldn't figure out what could be critical about an Edge update. From back in May.

Callender · 21 Aug 2020

@f14tomcat

Ditto on that. "Edge Critical Update"

Matthew Wai · 21 Aug 2020

The Edge update is definitely not critical, but M$ has categorized it as a critical update.

While writing the above sentence, I got a notification from VBScript again, and WUMT found the following:

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f14tomcat · 22 Aug 2020

Those "Optional" updates for drivers is WU show up in WAU. In WU, they are certainly not intended to be installed just because they are there. And they are certainly not the most current. If you hide them in WUA, the whole thing disappears in WU.

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Matthew Wai · 22 Aug 2020

The 2004 feature update disappeared from my WU. Now it shows on WUMT.
The feature update is no longer optional. It would have been installed automatically if it hadn’t been for the scripts.