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We will continue to provide Delta updates via the Microsoft Update Catalog through April 9th, , which will be the last delta update available. With Windows 10, quality updates are cumulative. Installing the most recent update ensures that you receive any previous updates you may have missed. We used a cumulative update model to reduce ecosystem fragmentation, and to make it easier for IT admins and end users to stay up to date and secure.

When a new Windows 10 feature update is released, the first cumulative update is generally between MB in size. Across all versions of Windows 10, cumulative updates grow as additional components and features get serviced, pushing the size to somewhere between Generally, this happens within the first months after the release of a feature update. To help you reduce the burden on your network bandwidth, yet still receive the same equivalent update, Microsoft designed three different update types:.

Regardless of which type of update is installed on a device, that update is fully cumulative and installing the latest update will ensure that the device has all the necessary quality and security improvements. Delta updates were originally created because the express update protocol was only available to devices connecting directly to Windows Update or Windows Server Update Services.

In January , the express protocol was extended to all 3 rd party update management systems; however, we continued to ship delta updates to give companies and third-party update management tools time to implement support for express updates.

Currently delta updates are available for the following versions of Windows Now that express update support for third-party update managers has been available for over a year, we plan to stop shipping delta updates. Beginning February 12, Microsoft will end its practice of creating delta updates for all versions of Windows Express updates are much smaller in size, and simplifying the cumulative options available will reduce complexity for IT administrators.

For more information on optimizing update bandwidth and more details about express updates, see Optimize Windows 10 update delivery. This has been an issue with and newer versions maybe even earlier. This is one of the most annoying sides of "windows as a service".. It constantly eats my comments yeah, i had this page opened for a while, it's not a reason to fail to authenticate when posting a comment , it is HORRIBLE on mobile. Hello Oleg, Thanks for the feedback. That does sound pretty annoying.

I think it is not isolated to WSUS only though. I had a same issue after my parents laptop has been updated to It couldn't find latest CU, although it found Flash player updates.

Using Windows Update there. In WSUS, not only an express update is not smaller, it is significantly larger; but, allegedly, it installs faster. Of course, it is still possible that these two are the same: The update is larger for the sever, but clients download less. If that's the case, I don't use them; size matters much more on the Internet connection, not on the local network connection. That is correct - if you enable express on WSUS, the update you download to the server is much larger typically over 4GB in size.

Then each client that connects to WSUS gets the much smaller download size. So it works well in scenarios where enterprises have branch offices with slower download links while their central location has a much larger pipe. The file is larger on WSUS because it contains all the baselines that any client could ask for, as well as all SKU's and architectures.

While the clients only download the SKU, architecture, and specific component differentials that they need. Oleg, For your parents machine, which I'm assuming is connected directly to Windows Update, when it downloads a feature update it also downloads and installs the latest cumulative update LCU at the same time.

So when they upgraded to , then were already fully up to date on LCU's. May patch tuesday, another LCU released I'll call this B If your parents machine upgraded on May 22nd one week after patch tuesday they would download and install both the feature update and the B LCU. They would only see a single reboot, and their machine would be fully up to date. Of course, I actually am working somewhere with a branch office but that office does not use an upstream WSUS over WAN; it is cheaper to connect to the Internet than to connect to the main office.

Our orders are to keep the redundant traffic off that WAN link. So, the branch office admin has a separate WSUS deployment. Mike, but when i have deleted SoftwareDistribution folder on parents laptop it then found new CU update and installed it. Oleg, I don't think deleting the SoftwareDistribution folder should have had an impact. Any chance you also enabled a language pack or feature on demand FoD.

NET 3. Enabling language packs and features on demand triggers a new download of the quality update to make sure you have the latest language strings and any updates for the components in the FoD.

One way to see if you have the current LCU is to look at the windows version and then compare to the release information page. If you get into this state again it would be interesting to see what the winver is before and after you delete the SoftwareDistribution folder.

Well, that will take a while as i don't look after their laptop that often. But will have that in mind if i encounter this issue again. I support a large globally distributed SCCM environment supporting multiple versions of Windows 10, both 32 and 64 bit and Server Additionally, these updates increases the install time of the updates themselves effecting the user experience.

Sean, Thank you for the feedback. We have some ideas we're working on to improve that scenario. Hopefully we'll have something we can announce soon. Pappy, Yes, the wsusscn2. Regardless of whether you use the Full LCU or an express update, the actual KB you install is the same KB and your device will have the same versions of all updated files on it. I hope will get some answers to my questions. We are worried about the replicating 7GB to 8GB package to the Distribution Points hosted at low network bandwidth locations.

I am quite disappointed; When MS releases so many feature across different product groups and at the same time its impacting the other products. Questions: Lets take a scenario; Now we are in the month of July For now my Express update package has cumulative updates from January to June and size of approx. Lets assume we will move to December and we will have Express Update for the last one year including LCU and the content size approx..

Can I cleanup the content library or content directory of Express Update n-2 months which means till October to get back some disk space free. If I do so; how does it impact the Client Devices to scan and installs the Windows Updates particularly in the space of Express Update.

After completion of deployment; these files are not cleaned up and cause the Disk space utilization on End User Devices. I am not sure; does it by design with Intention? Hello Bryan, It sounds like you are asking what is stored on the windows update service and available for clients to download.

Generating differentials takes time and space on the service, so we generate the ones that will be most likely to be used by the highest number of users. So we generate differential baselines for N-1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. And we also generate a differential for RTM. When a device goes to download an update it chats with the service to let it know what version of a file it has, and then the service determines which differential would be the best fit.

Technically we could generate differentials for every possible baseline permutation, but that would take more processing time and more storage space. And as you see from other people on the thread, it also impacts the disk size and download of people running WSUS who want to enable express locally since the same files we store for express on Windows Update are also sent to WSUS. So we try to make the best tradeoff across both experiences.

I agree, in your scenario using the full LCU may be a better fit. If WAN bandwidth is the most important, and you have a lot of machines in each branch office, then the full LCU may be the best way to optimize your bandwidth.

On the other hand, if you have a branch with only a couple machines it may be best to enable Express on a WSUS at your headquarters and then have the machines at the branch download express updates from it. If you still have some win7 or win8. As long as you keep the latest cumulative express update, cleaning up the older ones shouldn't impact download bandwidth at all. I'll reach out to some of my colleagues to get an answer on the local disk space.

The Windows Update agent keeps updates around on the disk until they've been superseded for 30 days. Which generally means you have N-2 worth of updates on the disk and then they automatically get purged.

I'll ask the SCCM folks if they have a similar design. Do you know what version you are using? Then in this case I will run through my evaluation cycle one more time. CUs aren't generally the main issue for us at least. It's the Builds I'm honestly not sure how we can go from to the next or latest build in our environment.

We have clients in remote locations who are on a pair of bonded T1s. Doing these build updates and just crossing your fingers nothing goes awry is nerve wracking to say the least. There needs to be a workstation LTSB option that still has the ability to access the Microsoft store. We are on a 4 year lease schedule and could totally roll new builds every PC cycle, but deploying remotely is an unmitigated nightmare that takes us away from legitimate projects.

Also on a side note, could you please tell me why my end-users need xbox, pandora, candy crush, etc? We can kill those applications via MDT, but rolling the updates they get reinstalled.

I'd like to hear some suggestions on making these build updates as easy as possible. And for the love of god don't suggest SCCM, we don't have someone dedicated to managing that monster. It is not so bad here yet. Users connect via VPN from homes with weak links and builds are just killing these connections.

So far only a few issues, but we don't have many Windows 10 yet.