Windows Updates
When first creating a fresh image, the first and last thing you should do is check for and install Windows Updates, until it displays the following 'You're up to date' message.
Once Windows is up to date, you should then pause updates for 5 weeks. This is to prevent a rogue Windows Update breaking a piece of software or some other configuration.
Holding Major Changes
You should then edit the group policy to stay on a specific version of Windows, we want to do this for the whole academic year to ensure software has been tested appropriately.
Before you start you should have made sure that you have the most up-to-date version of Windows.
First, run winver to find out which version you have installed - this should be something like 24H2 we will be using this for our example.
Then open gpedit (group policy editor), and update the following object:
Ensure that you have ticked enabled, and set the Windows product version to Windows 11 and the feature updates target version to be 24H2.
