IAutomaticUpdatesSettings interface (wuapi.h)

Contains the settings that are available in Automatic Updates.

Inheritance

The IAutomaticUpdatesSettings interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. IAutomaticUpdatesSettings also has these types of members:

Methods

The IAutomaticUpdatesSettings interface has these methods.

 
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::get_NotificationLevel

Gets and sets how users are notified about Automatic Update events. (Get)
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::get_ReadOnly

Gets a Boolean value that indicates whether the Automatic Update settings are read-only.
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::get_Required

Gets a Boolean value that indicates whether Group Policy requires the Automatic Updates service.
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::get_ScheduledInstallationDay

Gets and sets the days of the week on which Automatic Updates installs or uninstalls updates. (Get)
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::get_ScheduledInstallationTime

Gets and sets the time at which Automatic Updates installs or uninstalls updates. (Get)
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::put_NotificationLevel

Gets and sets how users are notified about Automatic Update events. (Put)
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::put_ScheduledInstallationDay

Gets and sets the days of the week on which Automatic Updates installs or uninstalls updates. (Put)
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::put_ScheduledInstallationTime

Gets and sets the time at which Automatic Updates installs or uninstalls updates. (Put)
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::Refresh

Retrieves the latest Automatic Updates settings.
IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::Save

Applies the current Automatic Updates settings.

Remarks

Note  Starting with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, ScheduledInstallationDay and ScheduledInstallationTime are not supported and will return unreliable values. If you try to modify these properties, the operation will appear to succeed but will have no effect.
 
Note  On Windows RT, you can no longer use the IAutomaticUpdatesSettings::Save method to configure Windows Update settings programmatically. The configuration operation fails if you use Save to set any value other than 4 (aunlScheduledInstallation).
 

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional with SP3 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server with SP3 [desktop apps only]
Target Platform Windows
Header wuapi.h