{"id":4334,"date":"2026-06-08T17:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4334"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:56:17","slug":"how-can-i-change-polling-interval-for-virus-definitions-updates-in-policy-manager-server","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/how-can-i-change-polling-interval-for-virus-definitions-updates-in-policy-manager-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I change Polling interval for virus definitions updates in Policy Manager Server?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How can I change Polling interval for virus definitions updates in Policy Manager Server?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>By default the clients checks for updates every 10 minutes<\/p>\n<p>How often the client checks for updates can be changed:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the Policy Manager Console<\/li>\n<li>Select a host or policy domain from the domain tree<\/li>\n<li>Go to the Settings tab<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <strong>Windows\u00a0&gt;\u00a0Centralized management<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Change the <strong>Interval for polling updates from WithSecure Policy Manager Server<\/strong> value<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In Automatic updates settings you can edit the time for which it is suppose to get poll:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.withsecure.com\/userguides\/product.html#business\/policy-manager\/16.10\/en\/task_AD516BEDC4194E8F967E823074ECD143-16.10-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.withsecure.com\/userguides\/product.html#business\/policy-manager\/16.00\/en\/task_AD516BEDC4194E8F967E823074ECD143-16.00-en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I change Polling interval for virus definitions updates in Policy Manager Server?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-4334","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000014119","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 14:56:17","import_hash":"2de91def62f15eaf0b244526a8802cabfd4c3baa","vanilla_article_id":32696,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32696-how-can-i-change-polling-interval-for-virus-definitions-updates-in-policy-manager-server","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":103,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}