Exam MD-101 topic 2 question 4 discussion

Answer should be Yes. The setting changes the maintenance window. The updates still get installed, but at your defined maintenance window.

B. No Configuring the Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary in Group Policy specifies the daily scheduled time at which Automatic Maintenance starts. However, this setting alone does not ensure that feature and quality updates will install automatically during the maintenance window. To achieve your goal, you should configure the Windows Update policy settings in Group Policy, specifically enabling "Configure Automatic Updates" and setting it to "4 - Auto download and schedule the install". This will ensure that updates are downloaded and installed during the specified maintenance window

Chat GPT said the answer was no No, the solution you provided would not meet the goal of ensuring that feature and quality updates install automatically on a Windows 10 computer during a maintenance window. The "Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary" setting in the Maintenance Scheduler settings of Group Policy does not control the installation of feature and quality updates on Windows 10 computers. Instead, it controls the activation of automatic maintenance tasks, such as disk optimization and system diagnostics, during a defined time period. This setting allows you to configure a start time and end time for the automatic maintenance window. To ensure that feature and quality updates install automatically on a Windows 10 computer during a maintenance window, you would need to enable the "Configure Automatic Updates" setting in Group Policy, as described in my previous answer. This would allow you to specify when and how updates are downloaded and installed on the computer, including during a maintenance window.

B, configuring the Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary setting in Group Policy will not ensure that feature and quality updates install automatically on a Windows 10 computer during a maintenance window. The Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary setting specifies the time after which Automatic Maintenance will run if the computer has been idle and on battery power. Automatic Maintenance is a feature in Windows 10 that performs routine maintenance tasks, such as installing updates and running system diagnostics, while the computer is not in use. While configuring the Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary setting may help to ensure that maintenance tasks are performed at a convenient time for the user, it will not ensure that feature and quality updates are installed automatically on the computer. To ensure that feature and quality updates install automatically on a Windows 10 computer during a maintenance window, you will need to configure the Windows Update settings in Group Policy or use the Windows Update for Business feature.

The answer is A. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-server-update-services/deploy/4-configure-group-policy-settings-for-automatic-updates#computer-configuration--maintenance-scheduler-policy-settings

I don't see setting a "window" of time in Group Policy. The closest is randomization. But the language "maintenance window" seems to apply to Configuration Manager, not GP.

Again here I guess the point is to "ensure" install during a maintenance window you can't enter a time. Because if the maintenance window changes, our time is still fixed and it could be out of the new maintenance window. So, my vote is B. No.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-server-update-services/deploy/4-configure-group-policy-settings-for-automatic-updates#computer-configuration--maintenance-scheduler-policy-settings Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary This policy enables you to configure the Automatic Maintenance activation boundary. The activation boundary is the daily scheduled time at which Automatic Maintenance starts.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-restart In Group Policy, within Configure Automatic Updates, you can configure a forced restart after a specified installation time. To set the time, you need to go to Configure Automatic Updates, select option 4 - Auto download and schedule the install, and then enter a time in the Scheduled install time dropdown. Alternatively, you can specify that installation will occur during the automatic maintenance time (configured using Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Maintenance Scheduler).

Yes I agree it is A. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the daily scheduled time as specified in Security and Maintenance/Automatic Maintenance Control Panel will apply. The “Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary” policy description mentions the following: “If you enable this policy setting, this will override the default daily scheduled time as specified in Security and Maintenance/Automatic Maintenance Control Panel.”

Maintenance Scheduler settings are located in the path: PolicyName > Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Maintenance Scheduler. The Maintenance Scheduler extension of Group Policy contains the following settings: Automatic Maintenance Activation Boundary Automatic Maintenance Random Delay

The maintenance activation boundary is the daily scheduled time at which Automatic Maintenance starts.

This policy setting allows you to configure the Automatic Maintenance activation boundary. The maintenance activation boundary is the daily schduled time at which Automatic Maintenance starts If you enable this policy setting, this will override the default daily scheduled time as specified in Security and Maintenance/Automatic Maintenance Control Panel. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the daily scheduled time as specified in Security and Maintenance/Automatic Maintenance Control Panel will appl

I think it's no but only because the option for "Automatic Download and schedule" option from a previous questions NEEDS to be enabled for this setting to do anything.

The maintenance activation boundary is the daily schduled time at which Automatic Maintenance starts If you enable this policy setting, this will override the default daily scheduled time as specified in Security and Maintenance/Automatic Maintenance Control Panel.

This will overide the maintenance window setting. https://www.windows-security.org/070988756d95e4fc3ebfe6be6cc1094b/automatic-maintenance-activation-boundary