However, administrators in enterprise environments can deactivate this upgrade lock in Windows 10 via Group Policy. Removing the upgrade lock (safeguard hold) More information about such locks can be found here.
Microsoft removes these locks once a fix for the compatibility issue is released and verified on an affected device. Microsoft uses these locks to protect the device and the user from a failed or poor update experience. These safeguard holds prevent a device with a known compatibility issue from being offered a new Windows 10 feature update using Windows Update. The user then receives the following notification in Windows Update.
In such cases, the feature update will be blocked in Windows Update (known as Safeguard holds) for these machines. When installing feature updates, there are always machines that Microsoft knows have hardware or software compatibility issues with the new Windows 10 version. Then on October 22, 2020, Microsoft published the article Opt out of safeguard holds on the topic, so I'll bring it up now. I wrote down the value of DisableWUfBSafeguards, but did not pursue the topic any further. I've had this topic on my radar for about a month now because someone on Facebook had given me the hint 'you know the registry keys to remove an upgrade blocker rule'.
