> since you couldn’t reliably stop it the computer itself and new teams with new computers come in.

Wifi connection settings in Windows have a "metered connection" setting, which disables automatically downloading updates. I don't recall exactly when this was introduced, but I had to use it for a year while I was stuck on satellite internet. You can even set data caps and such.

Of course, it's always off by default, and I have no idea if there's any way to provision the connection via enterprise admin to default to on for a particular network (I would assume not) so you'd be stuck hoping everyone that comes in does the right thing.

It's a good setting. I've found it gets reset sometimes from Windows updates, so you must remain vigilant.