I wish to prevent Windows Automatic Updates from downloading and installing the MRT each month. I understand this is a useful tool and "does not hurt anything", however it disrupts my outage window of installing patches - a window designated for INSTALLING
patches not SCANNING for malicious software. If I want to do a scan, I will perform that at another time. I have a very limited window to patch AND reboot and the MRT on some servers takes hours, litterally, to complete. The prevents the
the reboot of the security patches that are installed from completing in the window I have setup with the users/owners of the servers. For example some Citrix servers (I am sure not why, I believe it is due to the amount of local profiles houses on the
server) take over 4 hours to complete an MRT scan. I have no problem manually running an MRT at a later date - I just do not want it running and preventing my security patches from installing an rebooting in the time I have alloted for PATCHING.
Is there a way to prevent Windows Update from installing the MRT withouth have to go to each server, each month, and say "ignore this update".
Thank you.
NK

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Hello,

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Hi Nelson,
Could you please detail what the MRT is? Thanks.

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Hi Nelson,
Could you please detail what the MRT is? Thanks.

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Hi Nelson,
Could you please detail what the MRT is? Thanks.

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Kevin Ni
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MRT is the "Malicious Software Removal Tool" that Microsoft provides once a month via Windows Update. I believe it scans for and removes malicious software but the scans take hours to complete which throws off outage windows set aside for patching.
To me scanning and patching are two seperate operations and should not be lumped together. But I understand that some people probably do want this, so I am looking for a option to disable it just for my company. For example is there an
undocumented registry key that does something like "Skip MRT"....
Thanks
NK

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MRT is the "Malicious Software Removal Tool" that Microsoft provides once a month via Windows Update. I believe it scans for and removes malicious software but the scans take hours to complete which throws off outage windows set aside for patching.
To me scanning and patching are two seperate operations and should not be lumped together. But I understand that some people probably do want this, so I am looking for a option to disable it just for my company. For example is there an
undocumented registry key that does something like "Skip MRT"....
Thanks
NK

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MRT is the "Malicious Software Removal Tool" that Microsoft provides once a month via Windows Update. I believe it scans for and removes malicious software but the scans take hours to complete which throws off outage windows set aside for patching.
To me scanning and patching are two seperate operations and should not be lumped together. But I understand that some people probably do want this, so I am looking for a option to disable it just for my company. For example is there an
undocumented registry key that does something like "Skip MRT"....
Thanks
NK

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Any thoughts?
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Hi Nelson,
There has no way to disable MRT update only unless we uninstall MRT completely or configure Windows Update as not install all updates automatically.
Thanks.
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Hi Nelson,
There has no way to disable MRT update only unless we uninstall MRT completely or configure Windows Update as not install all updates automatically.
Thanks.
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Hi Nelson,
There has no way to disable MRT update only unless we uninstall MRT completely or configure Windows Update as not install all updates automatically.
Thanks.
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Thanks.
NK

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Thanks.
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Thanks.
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I don't want to use WSUS, but thank you for the suggestion.
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I don't want to use WSUS, but thank you for the suggestion.
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Could you not install WSUS and then have all your servers and clients point to the WSUS server. That way you can control which updates are installed. Would that not work?

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I don't want to use WSUS, but thank you for the suggestion.
NK

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