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title: Update Baseline
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description: Use an update baseline to optimize user experience and meet monthly update goals
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keywords: updates, servicing, current, deployment, semi-annual channel, feature, quality, rings, tools, group policy
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ms.prod: w10
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ms.mktglfcycl: manage
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author: jaimeo
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ms.localizationpriority: medium
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ms.author: jaimeo
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manager: laurawi
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ms.topic: article
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---
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# Update Baseline
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**Applies to:** Windows 10
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With the large number of different policies offered for Windows 10, Update Baseline provides a clear list of recommended Windows Update policy settings for IT administrators who want the best user experience while also meeting their monthly update compliance goals. See [Policies included in the Update Baseline](#policies-included-in-the-update-baseline) for the full list of policy configurations.
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## Why is Update Baseline needed?
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Update Baseline is an industry-tested solution that improves update adoption rates while also maintaining a high-quality user experience. Whether you are just starting out, or you have been configuring policies for years, Update Baseline can help get you to a known good state with an excellent user experience. Applying the baseline is especially helpful for organizations that have many years of policy configurations to clear out lingering misconfigurations.
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## You can use Update Baseline to:
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- Ensure that user and device configuration settings are compliant with the baseline.
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- Set configuration settings. You can use Group Policy to configure a device with the setting values specified in the baseline.
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Update Baseline doesn't affect your offering policies, whether you’re using deferrals or target version to manage which updates are offered to your devices and when.
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## Policies included in the Update Baseline
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The Update Baseline configures settings in these Group Policy areas:
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- System/Power Management
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- Windows Components/Delivery Optimization
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- Windows Components/Windows Update
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For the complete detailed list of all settings and their values, see the MSFT Windows Update.htm file in the [Update Baseline toolkit](https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=101056) at the Download Center
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## How do I get started?
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The Update Baseline toolkit makes it easy by providing a single command for IT Admins to load the baseline settings into Group Policy Management Console. You can get the [Update Baseline toolkit](https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=101056) from the Download Center.
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Today, the Update Baseline toolkit is currently only available for use with Group Policy.
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