While researching Group Policy settings for Windows Update on this TechNet library page, I ran across this worrisome statement describing what OSes the settings are supported on:
Supported on: Starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (Windows 7), Windows operating systems that are still within their Microsoft Products Support Lifecycle.
Does Microsoft plan to disable Group Policy when an OS becomes unsupported?
Two possible interpretations for this "supported on" statement have entered my mind:
- Microsoft won't help (support) you if the GP setting doesn't work correctly on an unsupported OS. But when an OS is unsupported, wouldn't it be redundant to point this out?
- This GP setting won't work on an unsupported OS. Yikes!
Googling this question unfortunately results in plenty of help for those who don't know how to get GP to work as it should, not an answer to my question.
get rid of XP
....completely agreed, but here almost one year after XP's support has ended, a handful of clients have a few unretired XP machines. When Vista suffers its fate, I don't want to suddenly find my tightly managed environments unraveling because Microsoft "turns off" Group Policy.