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AMA: Managing Windows updates
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Wednesday, Jun 05, 2024, 09:30 AM PDTEvent details
Managing updates across an organization doesn’t have to be complicated. Have questions on how to control update offerings and experiences? Want to know the best ways to test on a subset of devices be...
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Updated Dec 27, 2024
t3hcr
Jun 05, 2024Brass Contributor
We're still heavily an on-prem shop and use WSUS and Group Policies to manage our updates for our workstations. (and servers)
Is there anything new with WSUS and related Group Policies that we should be considering? Is there a future still for our approach? Appreciate all the goodness ya'll are moving forward! 😊
- Char_CheesmanJun 05, 2024Bronze Contributor
Thanks for participating in today's session of AMA: Managing Windows updates! For reference, the panel covered your question at 25:00.
- Jason_SandysJun 05, 2024
Microsoft
Is there a reason you haven't begun looking to Windows cloud native (which includes management with Intune and WUfB/Autopatch). This is effectively the path forward for all orgs (where technically possible). with most/all on-prem solutions within the Microsoft stack being deprioritized.
- t3hcrJun 05, 2024Brass ContributorManagerial hesitance to move to cloud, but no lack of hesitance by the actual practitioners. 😊 I continue to push things forward as I can. I just hope I can before it's too late. Thanks for answering my question here and on the live AMA!
- Jason_SandysJun 05, 2024
Microsoft
Here are two posts from our senior leadership that can help you fight the good fight on this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/12/05/3-reasons-why-now-is-the-time-to-go-cloud-native-for-device-management/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/01/29/best-practices-in-moving-to-cloud-native-endpoint-management/