Automatic Updates on Server Turned on & greyed out - yikes!

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Hi all,

I have several SBS2003 servers out in the world and doing just fine. My
policy has always been to do the Server Updates for these servers MANUALLY
during off hours to avoid problems. Thus I have intentionally turned off
automatic updates on the servers. Recently I noticed that a couple of these
servers had turned the 'Automatic Update' setting back on and also had
greyed out the options so that I cannot change them back. I assume that this
is a policy change but I don't know how it got there and why it is present
on some servers and not others.

I am using WSUS on these servers and have excluded the server from automatic
approval updates. I have not seen anyone out there with the same issue....

Anyone run across this yet?

Thanks for your help - Steve V.


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