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Brass Contributor

Oct 19, 2017

Demo at Ignite

Hi, so on your demo at Ignite, you showed how to move certain workloads to the cloud, one of which was windows updates. how do I manage that in Intune?

Maayan Bar-Niv

Microsoft

Oct 19, 2017

Intune management of Windows Updates is through Windows Update for Business. You can set the policies directly from the Intune console, see here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/windows-update-for-business-configure

ON2000

Brass Contributor

Oct 19, 2017

So it means once a machine is switched to being Intune-managed, even if the device is physically connected my company LAN, it will not be able to use our SCCM internal distribution points, to cache the updates files, and only the Intune "Delivery optimization download mode" options found in the "Update Ring" configurations will apply, right?

Asking this, as we want to avoid all Internet links to collapse every 6 months :-).

Maayan Bar-Niv
Microsoft
Oct 19, 2017
If you move the Windows Update for Business workload to Intune then yes, OS updates will be delivered over the internet with Delivery Optimization and not via SCCM DPs. Other content that is managed by ConfigMgr (like apps) will continue to use DPs. Note that this is true even if you manage WUfB policies directly from SCCM and not through Intune - the capability to manage WUfB policies in SCCM was added in 1706.