I have setup several Windows Server 2102 R2 instances in Google Cloud and need top be able to control the windows update settings, but they are currently listed as "Managed by your system administrator"
I have tried to disable this by setting the disable-agent-updates value to true in project metadata but this has not worked.
Does anyone know of another way to do this maybe what i might be doing wrong?
Many Thanks
David
Best Answer
When updates are "Managed by your system administrator" this implies that the servers are being configured for updates by group policy or a local WSUS server or Google cloud services. Things to check, if the servers are domain joined look at the group policy settings with
GPRESULT /R
See This answer relating to how to check for WSUS servers https://superuser.com/questions/189704/how-can-i-check-if-a-computer-is-configured-to-use-wsus
And on Google cloud instances try the following: