Disable Automatic Updates on Server 2016
I’m sure we’ve all been in the spot, where a Windows Server for some reason or another decided to run windows updates and now needs a reboot.
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I’m sure we’ve all been in the spot, where a Windows Server for some reason or another decided to run windows updates and now needs a reboot.

Deploying Virtual Machine Template with a Customization Specification. In earlier posts, I’ve gone through how to create a template and how to create a customization specification. If you missed them they are located below. Creating Templates Creating Customization Specifications Let’s put the 2 together

Well we just went over how to create a template lets create a Customization Specification to Speed up some of the based install tasks Creating a Customization Specification can be done as a one off thing when deploying a Template or you can create a Specification so your company standard is set from the beginning….

This morning I decided to create a new template for Server 2012 R2 since I’ve been restricting a lot of the components of the TDSheridan Home Lab. I created a new virtual machine and installed Server 2012 R2 Datacenter then ran all windows updates on it.