Enterprise users shouldn’t be pointing their workstations to the interwebs for updates.
If they are, and this bites them, good. Might teach them a lesson.
Absolutely true.
And at an Enterprise level with a policy, I presume it should be blocked for individual users to initiate. That would be appropriate.
But if you had something that bypassed that block and just updated the workstations without user input, that would be a very bad thing.
If I read it correctly, it sounds like people who deferred the update AND said they didn’t want to send data to Microsoft, they were the ones who got forced in some way.
It sounds like if you have a business edition of Windows 10 that it doesn’t happen, which would be good.
We update our machines ourselves with sccm in our own terms. Initially, it was tough to completely shutdown the win10 enterprise client from phoning home for major updates. But with a number of GPO edits it was made possible- even without long term service branch.