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MICROSOFT: WINDOWS AUTOPATCH STEALS THE 'FUN' FROM PATCH TUESDAYS

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 * April 9, 2022
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Microsoft announced that Windows Autopatch, a service designed to automatically
keep Windows and Office software up to date, will be released in July 2022.

Windows Autopatch is a new managed service offered for free to all
Microsoft customers who already have a Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 or above
license.

"This service will keep Windows and Office software on enrolled endpoints
up-to-date automatically, at no additional cost. The second Tuesday of every
month will be 'just another Tuesday'," promised Lior Bela, a Sr. Product
Marketing Manager at Microsoft.

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"Windows Autopatch manages all aspects of deployment groups for Windows 10 and
Windows 11 quality and feature updates, drivers, firmware, and Microsoft 365
Apps for enterprise updates."

It moves the update orchestration from organizations to Microsoft, with the
burden of planning the Update process (including rollout and sequencing) no
longer on the orgs' IT teams.

Windows Autopatch works with all supported versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11
and with Windows 365 for Enterprise.




HOW DOES AUTOPATCH WORK?

The Windows Autopatch service automatically breaks up the organization's device
fleet into four groups of devices known as testing rings.

The 'test ring' will contain a minimum number of devices, the 'first ring'
around 1% of all endpoints that need to be kept up-to-date, the 'fast ring'
roughly 9%, and the 'broad ring" 90% of all devices.

"The population of these rings is managed automatically, so as devices come and
go, the rings maintain their representative samples. Since every organization is
unique, though, the ability to move specific devices from one ring to another is
retained by enterprise IT admins," Bela added.

Once the testing rings are set up, updates will be deployed progressively,
beginning with the test ring and moving to larger sets of devices following a
validation period through which device performance is monitored and compared to
pre-update metrics.

Windows Autopatch deployment rings (Microsoft)

Autopatch also comes with Halt and Rollback features that will automatically
block updates from being applied to higher test rings or rolled back
automatically.

"Whenever issues arise with any Autopatch update, the remediation gets
incorporated and applied to future deployments, affording a level of proactive
service that no IT admin team could easily replicate. As Autopatch serves more
updates, it only gets better," Bela vowed.

Microsoft provides further details in a Windows Autopatch FAQ, including
information on service eligibility, prerequisites, and features.


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COMMENTS

 * DFLOOD - 4 DAYS AGO
   
    *  
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   One more step down the road towards "We control everything, hand over your
   credit card". And I'll bet it's implemented as "reboot NOW!" which really
   upsets people like C-Level staff.

 * NONERAIN - 3 DAYS AGO
   
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    *  
   
   All updates can be managed in Enterprise...

 * WPQ - 3 DAYS AGO
   
    *  
    *  
   
   > which really upsets people like C-Level staff
   
   This is the last of my concerns. I made it clear to my peers that it is
   either this or a written request on their part to not be protected, with the
   risk of having their data stolen yada yada yada.
   
   Suddenly everyone is fine with the reboots.

 * JIMMYJONES1256 - 3 DAYS AGO
   
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    *  
   
   Yay. Now you have even less of an idea on when a buggy update will get rolled
   out.

 * NONERAIN - 3 DAYS AGO
   
    *  
    *  
   
   Read the article:
   "The Windows Autopatch service automatically breaks up the organization's
   device fleet into four groups of devices known as testing rings.
   The 'test ring' will contain a minimum number of devices, the 'first ring'
   around 1% of all endpoints that need to be kept up-to-date, the 'fast ring'
   roughly 9%, and the 'broad ring" 90% of all devices."
   "[...]the ability to move specific devices from one ring to another is
   retained by enterprise IT admins"

 * PARADROYD - 2 DAYS AGO
   
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    *  
   
   Unfortunately, given the well established track record of updates vs the
   theoretical "what should happen", I'm afraid that the relevant sub string to
   take away from this is, "automatically breaks".
   
   How is this going to work with "frozen" public access computers, where the
   freezing/thawing of the systems has to be coordinated with updates?

 * TSVK! - 2 DAYS AGO
   
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    *  
   
   There is no way in the world we'll be deploying this on our domain, they
   couldn't pay us to run it. It often takes a month for the mess and fallout to
   be cleared up from an update before we start our own tiered rollout.
   How many times have you read about Win updates breaking things? and now they
   want us to hand over our update schedule to them. :P

 * MRSLEEP - 22 HOURS AGO
   
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    *  
   
   Well, that's terrible change.
   It's nice to have some semblance of control so you can it head it off at the
   pass when MS releases a buggy patch.

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