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Harman_Thind
Microsoft
MicrosoftWindows Autopatch - Generally Available!
Hi all! Excited to share that Windows Autopatch is now Generally Available (GA)! Check out our latest GA announcement blog as well as our new marketing page.
What's new for Windows Autopatch?
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Hi, before GA we raised a support ticket as we could not see any reporting for Autopatch. We were told this was because it was in Preview and at GA would appear under MEM -> Reports - Autppatch
Now it is in GA, we still can't see reporting under MEM -> Reports for Autopatch
Autopatch just doesn't exist in there.
Device management
- Device compliance
- Device configuration (preview)
- Group policy analytics (preview)
- Windows updates (preview)
- Cloud attached devices (preview)
Endpoint security
- Microsoft Defender Antivirus
- Firewall
Analytics
- Endpoint analytics
Intune data warehouse
- Data warehouse
Azure monitor
- Diagnostic settings
- Log analytics
- Workbooks
Anyone else seeing the same (or not seeing .. as the case may be 🙂
Cheers
MikeC45 I was concerned about the same lack of reports & emails and opened a support case last week. The support engineer said that in order to receive Autopatch notifications, we must go into the Message Center / Preferences / Email tab and subscribe to notifications for the Microsoft 365 Suite. I complained that this is not what the docs say at all and asked the technician if they could be updated/clarified but I have not heard back in a few days.
We didn't discuss the actual compliance reports, but I found a blurb somewhere in the docs that say "Update Compliance" is supported by AutoPatch. So I am presuming that we will have to gather the compliance reports ourselves using Update Compliance, which again is not ideal for a solution that MS is supposed to be fully managing. I would expect to see status emails about when patching is starting, and a summary of what the compliance is when it is complete.
To get more visibility into this issue/request you may want to post a new topic to this forum and/or also open a support case. Please keep us posted on what they tell you because communication of how the patching is going is very important!
We didn't discuss the actual compliance reports, but I found a blurb somewhere in the docs that say "Update Compliance" is supported by AutoPatch. So I am presuming that we will have to gather the compliance reports ourselves using Update Compliance, which again is not ideal for a solution that MS is supposed to be fully managing. I would expect to see status emails about when patching is starting, and a summary of what the compliance is when it is complete.
To get more visibility into this issue/request you may want to post a new topic to this forum and/or also open a support case. Please keep us posted on what they tell you because communication of how the patching is going is very important!
egoodman Hi egoodman, when I raised my case (back in June), the MS tech shared a screenshot of what it *should* look like in the Reports section of MEM (attached)
I have gone back to him since GA so will update here if I get a reply.
Cheers
- MikeC45 I have seen some Twitter posts that the report from your screenshot is available now. And I did confirm that I saw it in my tenant. It's still obviously not going to be automated via email, but it looked pretty decent
- It wasn't there yesterday, but when I checked this morning it's now showing 🙂
Automated e-mails would be handy for our ticketing system, but at least we now have some visibility in to patching status. Getting there ....
