• This Setting Is Managed By Your Domain Administrator. Less Secure Apps
• Windows Update Managed By Administrator
• Setting Controlled By Your Administrator

When Sync settings is turned on, Windows syncs the settings you choose across all your Windows 10 devices that you've signed in to with your Microsoft account. Notes Sync settings also works if you sign in with a work or school account linked to your Microsoft account. Notice in the Settings app you’re experiencing this issue, that “Some settings are managed by your organization.” If your Windows 10 PC belongs only to you. The 'Managed by your organization' policies management feature allows administrators to install extensions, block access to various web pages, set the homepage address, disable the 'Print' feature, and control how browsers function in many other ways, however, these policies can also be managed by a browser hijacker or malicious app that users inadvertently install on the browser. Restart your computer and the 'Some settings are managed by your organization' message will disappear from Windows Update page in Settings. NOTE: If you see the message on Personalization pages such as Background, Colors, Lock Screen, Themes, Fonts, etc, then you'll need to check following registry key. Settings are managed by your administrator - PC was part of a Domain This Dell Optiflex 390 W7 Pro 64 SP1 tower was not used for years, but now the owners want to use it. It was once part of a domain and NOBODY had a clue about any of the passwords.

I received a question about not being able to update windows manually after uninstalling Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Sometimes after moving away from WSUS, some of the Windows Registry entries required for WSUS do not go back to “default” and therefore blocks you from manually downloading the updates or making changes to the Windows Update settings.

To fix the “some settings are managed by your system administrator.” message after removing WSUS, please verify all GPO related to WSUS are properly reverted back and force a policy update on the machine you’re receiving the error on. Restart the machine and then check this registry entry:

ComputerHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer

Change NoWindowsUpdate (REG_DWORD) to 0.

This Setting Is Managed By Your Domain Administrator. Less Secure Apps

If this doesn’t work right away – restart the machine. If it still doesn’t work – you can check this key and make sure it’s also set to 0. If the key doesn’t exist, you can create it and mark as 0.

HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesWindowsUpdateDisableWindowsUpdateAccess

WARNING: Please be careful when making changes to the registry. This is just a general guideline and I cannot guarantee it will work in every environment as many things could be missing depending on the steps you took to uninstall the WSUS features.

Windows Update Managed By Administrator

Setting Controlled By Your Administrator

Let me know if you have any questions or if anything else has worked for you.