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Best advice I ever got regarding Windows: delay updates for a few days. Sometimes Windows updates break the device, but if you're part of the crowd that delays for a day or two, they might have fixed the issue by then.
We don't get a choice to do this on our laptops at work. We can delay them by at most 8 hours. Well last week we had a botched update that bricked the laptops of 3 people on my team of 11 people. So about a quarter of us couldn't work for a week while IT scrambled to re-image laptops and restore from backups. Of course this is during our crunch because we are getting ready to launch a new software update on our product.
Fun times.
Your IT team can and should be delaying those updates via group policy at the domain level.