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Specify a date for update enforcement instead of number of days for CUs and FUs in WUFB
MicrosoftStephane Lalancette thank you for reaching out! I'd love to understand a bit more. If you are always patching on a specific day, wouldn't specifying a number of days always result on updating on a specific date? Are you looking to specify a specific DD/MM/YYYY? Thank you for your feedback.
Hi AriaUpdated thks for reaching out.
We patch on the last Sunday of the month, so in relation to patch Tuesday, the number of days is never the same, like this month it's 12 days (Oct 13 to 25th) in November it will be 19days (10th to the 29th)
It always needs to be the last Sunday of the month. This is where we enforce the patches on all workstations that haven't already done it themselves.
Does that help better understand what we're doing?
Don't hesitate if you have other questions.
- AriaUpdated
Stephane Lalancette thank you for clarifying, that helps! 🙂
So, basically, you deploy the updates in waves after patch Tuesday and then want to force all devices that haven't finished download/install/restart to do so by the last Sunday of the month - is that correct?
One question, given the current capabilities, how do you feel about given that while the dates change the number of days between the 2nd Tuesday and the 4th Sunday of the month do not change. Therefore you can defer to ensure the update goes out on a specific day and then provide a deadline to ensure the update is forced by that Sunday?
Hi AriaUpdated when you say :
, how do you feel about given that while the dates change the number of days between the 2nd Tuesday and the 4th Sunday of the month do not changeThe number of days is different each month. Like I wrote earlier:
This month it's 12 days (Oct 13 to 25th) in November it will be 19days (Nov 10th to Nov 29th)
