Per ITS policy, keeping Windows up to date with all critical security updates is required to keep your PC connected to the University network. ITS pushes the updates to university-owned computers but action is needed by the user to ensure updates are fully installed.
To fully install the security updates, you must restart your computer. A shutdown and then power on will not fully install security updates. More information on the difference is here.
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Going forward, your PC will no longer restart as soon as the installation of monthly Microsoft security updates has completed. You will still see a notification informing you of the need to restart your PC, but that restart will not be forced as a result of the completion of patch installation. If you do not restart your University-owned computer for 2 weeks after the security updates were released, ITS will begin a countdown to restart. You will then have 90 minutes to 4 hours to restart your computer.
Notification of the need to restart, countdown to restart not implemented
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Notification Window after Countdown to Restart is implemented
If you see this window, the computer will restart automatically when the countdown is complete. You can choose to restart sooner by clicking on the restart button in the window.