Win 10 Redstone-2

[JackMDS]

FWIW

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/wi...til-new-microsoft-hardware-hits-in-early-2017

 

[Puffnstuff]

Well hopefully the initial Redstone release will be trouble free for us tiding us over until the second installment arrives next year.

 

[tweakboy]

What about Service Release 1 ?

 

[TheSlamma]

This is getting ancient already, you Powershell out all the crappy store apps, wipe 100% of everything in the %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps folder, then MicroShaft releases another "Upgrade" and forces almost everything you cleaned up back on your systems.

Group policies allow you to delay "upgrades" and "updates" by up to 8 months each but that is it, but if you select the disable option you are forced to disable both of them so you can't get regular patches. So the best option we have is to disable upgrades by 8 months, leave updates at default and then hope that PS scripts hold up and can remove all their crap apps each time they release these new builds.

Microsoft, enterprises do not want Candy Crush on their work computers.. AT ALL. Anyone with a Simple Jack IQ or higher should have figured that out on their own. We also do not have even a 1% need or want for your store, enterprise controls doesn't change that either, that store has nothing good or even average to offer, it's a complete junk pile. Thanks for the ability to disable the store the store apps, but yet a policy so half assed it leaves all the tiles on the start menu that then just give policy errors to users, why even let them see it, just remove the things and cleanup the start menu.

 

[Chiropteran]

Enterprises should use long term service branch, then they will have a relatively static set of OS features without regular major updates.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Group policies allow you to delay "upgrades" and "updates" by up to 8 months each but that is it, but if you select the disable option you are forced to disable both of them so you can't get regular patches. So the best option we have is to disable upgrades by 8 months, leave updates at default and then hope that PS scripts hold up and can remove all their crap apps each time they release these new builds.

You're referring to the Windows Update for Business feature. It isn't meant for regular consumers so much - and the pause thing has a timeout on it anyway:

Although administrators can use deferral periods to stagger the rate at which deployments go out to their organization (which provides time to verify quality and address any issues), there may be cases where additional time is needed before an update is set to deploy to a machine, or group of machines. Windows Update for Business provides a means for administrators to pause updates and upgrades on a per-machine basis. This pause functionality ensures that no updates or upgrades will be made available for the specified machine; the machine will remain in this state until the machine is specifically “unpaused”, or when a period of five weeks (35 days) has passed, at which point updates are auto-resumed.

Either way, you could easily write a powershell script that removes the built in apps and just have it run at startup or something....