Disabling Windows Autoupdate

If you have a patch management system, you dont need to enable AutoUpdate service. Why?

1. Reduce bandwidth consumption, instead of every machine connecting and downloading from *microsoft.com, now all you need is one centralize server.
2. Reduce logging noise in network devices especially firewall
3. Reduce resources usage since less services running automatically.

So how to do it?

I use GNU Awk and must run as domain administrator.

1. net view | gawk " { print $1 } > hostlist
2. for /f %i in (hostlist) do sc \\%i stop wuauserv
3. for /f %i in (hostlist) do sc \\%i config start= disabled


Thats it.