The Enable Software Updates on Clients setting specifies whether to enable the Software Updates Client Agent and the Scan Schedule specifies how often the client agent initiates compliance assessment scans on client computers. Disabling the Software Updates Client Agent puts the client agent components on client computers into a dormant state, but does not remove the components. Reenabling the Software Updates Client Agent will initiate a policy to request that the components on clients be enabled. The Software Updates Client Agent is configured on a site-by-site basis. Disabling the client agent on a site affects only the client computers assigned to that site and prevents compliance assessment scanning and deployments from being received on client computers.

The Enforce all mandatory deployments setting specifies whether to enforce all mandatory software update deployments that have deadlines within a specified period of time. When a deadline is reached for a mandatory software update deployment, installation is initiated on clients for the updates defined in the deployment. This setting determines whether to also initiate the installation for software updates defined in other mandatory deployments that have a configured deadline within the specified period of time. The Hide all deployments from end users setting provides the ability to hide deployments when they are received and installed on client computers.

The Deployment Reevaluation setting specifies how often the Software Updates Client Agent reevaluates software updates for installation status. When software updates that have been previously installed are no longer found on client computers, and still required, they are reinstalled.