Odd situation today. User apparently received a popup and somehow upgraded their Server 2022 compute box to Server 2025. The system did upgrade, but of course it’s now stuck in a Not Activated state since we haven’t purchased any Server 2025 OS, core, or RDP licenses.
Checking my own 2022 servers, yes Microsoft is apparently allowing you to push an upgrade to 2025 right from the Windows Update menu:
If you have system restore on you should be able to just do that. Beyond that you’ll need to wipe the system and pop windows 2022 back on it. You should be able to disable the upgrade option via SCCM or Intune depending on how your infrastructure is setup. You may have to reach out to MS support to get that setup on Intune though.
Group Policies should also allow you to disable various update and upgrade options, but I can not give you the one that does it since Windows Server is not my strong suit.
Apparently some RMM tools thought 2025 was a security update and pushed it though. It didn’t happen to me but apparently some companies had to do a little scramble.
