In an exciting announcement today, Microsoft revealed that Windows Server administrators can now opt into automatic updates for .NET and .NET Core through Microsoft Update (MU). This change does not affect client operating systems such as Windows and only affects server environments.
Prior to today, Windows Server only received updates for .NET and .NET Core through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and the UM Catalog. But now, Windows Server administrators can modify configurations to receive builds from the Automatic Updates Channel (AU).
If you’re an IT admin wondering how this behavior can be configured, Microsoft has detailed registry key changes to allow .NET Core 3.1, .NET 5.0, .NET 6.0, or all .NET automatic updates in its blog post here. Similarly, Group Policy can also be leveraged to deploy registry keys to multiple machines simultaneously.
Microsoft says that while a large number of customers use managed environments and tools to control updates to their server machines, some have asked Microsoft for similar automatic updates to client machines because they don’t use a tool. deployment management.
As such, signing up for automatic updates is purely optional via the previously mentioned registry key changes. If you do not want automatic updates, no further action is required on your part.
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