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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. PLAY Top Articles Video Settings Full Screen About Connatix V158870 Read More Read More Read More Read More Read More Read More Flaw in Rarible NFT market allowed trickycrypto asset transfers 1/1 Skip Ad Continue watching after the ad Visit Advertiser websiteGO TO PAGE "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. RELATED ARTICLES: Microsoft: Windows 7 recovery app fails after January updates Microsoft now lets you enable the Windows App Installer again, here's how Microsoft fixes Bluetooth issue causing Windows blue screens Microsoft tests new cloud-based Microsoft Defender for home users Microsoft March 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes 71 flaws, 3 zero-days * Enterprise * Microsoft * Microsoft Office * Windows * Windows 10 * Windows 11 * Windows Autopatch * Facebook * Twitter * LinkedIn * Email * SERGIU GATLAN Sergiu Gatlan is a reporter who covered cybersecurity, technology, Apple, Google, and a few other topics at Softpedia for more than a decade. Email or Twitter DMs for tips. * Previous Article * Next Article COMMENTS * DFLOOD - 4 DAYS AGO * * 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 * * 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 * * 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 * * 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 * * 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 * * Well, that's terrible change. 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