Your organization has set some policies to manage updates

If you are wondering why you see Some settings are managed by your organization or You have opted in for the Windows Insider Program, in Windows 11/10 Settings, when you run Windows Update, then this post may be able to guide you. If your administrator has disabled Windows Updates or due to some corruption in Automatic Update settings, you may see an error message.

• Your organization has set some policies to manage updates.
• You have opted for the Windows Insider Program.

Your organization has set some policies to manage updates.

When you see this message, it means that your system administrator has configured these Windows 10 Settings for your organization, and you will have to contact him.

The message also indicates that your system has been configured to receive Windows Insider Preview Builds.

But if you are the only user of your PC, or the user of the Admin account, then here is what you can do to resolve the issue.

1. Try a system restore operation to a prior good point.
2. Reverse the changes by changing Group Policy settings
3. Try suggestions from this post.
4. Opt-out from the Insider program
5. Re-enable Windows Updates using one of these Updates tools
6. Use the Cloud Reset/Reinstall option.

Before you begin, do remember to create a system restore point first.

1] Try a system restore operation to a prior good point

If this happened recently, trying a system restore operation to a prior good point could help.

2] Reverse the changes by changing Group Policy settings

Open Group Policy Editor and change the status of the following settings to Not Configured.

• Intranet Update Service for detecting Updates
• Allow connecting to Windows Update Internet Locations
• Disable all online services for Windows Updates except managed services
• Use alternate URL for Update Services
• Configure an alternate location for downloading updates when scanning against a managed service
• Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet Locations
• Notify to download Updates
• Set Automatic Update options

Typically, you will see most of these settings here:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update.

But you can search Group Policy for specific GPO using these methods, or use this tool from Microsoft for finding the Group Policy settings.

These links have detailed suggestions to offer:

• Microsoft.com
• Your organization has turned off automatic updates.

If you are using Windows 10 Home edition, you won’t have the Local Group Policy Editor. You need to add the Local Group Policy Editor to your computer.

3] Try suggestions from this post

Some more information here that can help you –

• Some settings are managed by your organization. 
• Your organization manages updates on this PC.

4] Opt out from the Insider program

Check if you have signed for the Windows Insider Program; If this is not something you want, then you may opt out from the Insider program.

5] Re-enable Windows Updates using one of these Updates tools

You could try to re-enable Windows Updates using one of these Updates tools using the Disable/Enable button.

6] Use Cloud Reset/Reinstall option

If nothing helps using Cloud Reset/Reinstall option. This will reset/restore Windows files and settings to its original state by downloading files from the Microsoft servers.

All the best.

Read: How to view Configured Windows Update Policies applied to your computer.