Microsoft limits the number of Windows update policies to 25

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Microsoft's Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems have different policy sets that administrators can configure. According to Microsoft, some policies should no longer be set because "they have become irrelevant or been superseded by better options."

The Windows 11 administrator who opened the Group Policy Editor found 25 Windows Update policies under the new old policies folder. All policies for the folder should no longer be set.

Microsoft provides the following suggested reasons in a new blog post on the company's technology community site:

As a result, the Windows Update policy set contains policies that no longer have any impact; Doesn't work properly on devices running Windows 10 version 20H2 or later; or it works, but not as well as the policies added to accomplish a similar experience in a better way.

This post lists all 25 policies, provides a brief description of what it does and why it should no longer be set. More than half of the policies listed have never been implemented on Windows 10 or Windows 11 and have been previously deprecated or replaced in earlier versions of Windows 10.

The following is a brief overview of these policies:

1. Do not display the "Install updates and close" option in the Shut down Windows dialog box
2. Do not display the "Install updates and shut down" option in the Shut down Windows dialog box Adjust the default option to "Install updates and shut down" in
3. Delayed restart for scheduled installations
4. Configure notifications required for automatic restarts for updates
5. Allow non-administrators to receive updates Notifications
6. Turn on software notifications
7. Allow automatic updates to install now
8. Reboot with scheduled installations Re-prompt
9. Reschedule scheduled installations for automatic updates
10. Choose when to receive feature updates (pause updates for 60 days or until set back to 0, replaced)
11. Defer upgrades and updates (quality updates up to 4 weeks, replaced)
12. Postpone upgrades and updates (feature updates up to 8 months, replaced)
13. Choose when to receive (replace) feature updates
14. Turn on recommended updates via automatic updates
15. Do not allow update deferral policy to cause scanning for Windows updates (not supported on Windows 11)
16. Update power policy for cart restart (not supported on Windows 11)

Moved to old policy file The remaining nine policies of the folder are:

1. Specify the deadline before update installation automatically restarts (administrators should leverage the Compliance Deadline policy).
2. Configure automatic restart reminder notifications for updates (use compliance period instead)
3. Turn off automatic restart notifications for update installations (use the "Display option for update notification policy" instead).
4. GP Name: Specify participating restart transition and update notification schedules (leverage the compliance deadline policy instead)
5. Configure automatic restart warning notification schedules for updates (leverage the default notification flow)
6. For scheduled automatic update installations, logged in users are not automatically restarted (only valid in Group Policy, but not exactly as described).
7. RequireUpdateApproval (mobile only, not supported on Windows 10 or 11).
8. PhoneUpdateRestrictions (Deprecated, replaced by RequireUpdateApproval)
9. Do not allow update deferral policies to cause Windows Update to be scanned (not supported on Windows 11, Microsoft recommends using the new scan source policy).

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