6. Windows Autopatch – Release Management, Reports and Notifications

In this last section, I want to discuss Release Management, Reports, and Email and Message notifications. These are all must-know sections when you are planning on deploying Autopatch. Release ManagementWhere to find this?Windows Feature Management explainedRelease StatusesPhase StatusesRelease AnnouncementsRelease SettingsAutopatch GroupsPlanning for a New Release (Custom Release)Setting the Release PhaseNotifications - Email and Portal MessagesQuality … Continue reading 6. Windows Autopatch – Release Management, Reports and Notifications

5. Windows Autopatch – Entra ID Groups, and Policies

In this section I would like to deep dive on few things that is getting created as a part of the Tenant Enrollment. The good thing about this is that your Autopatch environment will be ready for you and ready to go when you enrolled it. Entra ID groups, Update Rings and Policies. Microsoft Learn … Continue reading 5. Windows Autopatch – Entra ID Groups, and Policies

4. Tenant Enrollment and Device Registration in Windows Autopatch

Tenant Enrollment for Windows Autopatch For the next steps of getting Autopatch to work, let's check the tenant Enrollment. Now that you have setup the prerequisites and other requirements, the enrollment will be pretty much following the bouncing ball type task. Path to enable Windows Autopatch Intune Portal > Tenant Administration > Tenant Enrollment (under … Continue reading 4. Tenant Enrollment and Device Registration in Windows Autopatch

3. Windows Autopatch Device Readiness

Existing GPOs, Registry Settings, Config Manager and MDM Settings In this section, I would like to go through some important changes required in your environment before moving to Widows Autopatch. Ideally, this comes in step 3 of the development journey - Pilot. With everything in place, you may have selected the devices that need to … Continue reading 3. Windows Autopatch Device Readiness

Windows Autopatch – 3. Support Requests

This will be a short post, but I like to emphasize this great feature Windows Autopatch provides. In case you haven't seen the news, Windows Autopatch is now in Public Preview and I'm thrilled to write about it. Post 1 and Post 2 can be found below 1. Tenant Onboarding and Device Registration 2. Deployment … Continue reading Windows Autopatch – 3. Support Requests

Windows Autopatch – 2. Deployment Rings, Security Groups and Device Profiles

In case you haven't seen the news, Windows Autopatch is now in Public Preview and I'm thrilled to write my 2nd post about it. Post 1 can be found below 1. Tenant Onboarding and Device Registration In this post I will talking about the main component of the feature - Deployment Rings and Device Profiles. … Continue reading Windows Autopatch – 2. Deployment Rings, Security Groups and Device Profiles

Windows Autopatch – 1. Tenant Onboarding and Device Registration

Windows Autopatch is finally here and this will update your eligible Windows 10 and 11 devices and Office application. This is a IT admin hands off task as opposed to traditional Patch Tuesday and other patching events and internal IT admins can always open support tickets with Microsoft when required. This is Microsoft looking after … Continue reading Windows Autopatch – 1. Tenant Onboarding and Device Registration