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Get answers to your questions about adopting Windows 11 and managing the Windows devices used by remote, onsite, and hybrid workers across your organization. Get tips on keeping devices up to date ef...

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Updated Mar 21, 2024

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Johan_Vanaken

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Mar 18, 2024

For Windows Update for Business, Firmware and Driver management have been added to the deployment service a few months ago. The deployment options are 'Automatic' or 'Manual' deployment, in a sense of an all-or-nothing approach for the 'Automatic' part. Are there any plans to further elaborate on this functionality, i.e. it would be great to have the option to choose 'Automatic' mode for specific Driver Classes, and 'Manual' for more sensitive classes like Firmware and network ?

David_Guyer
Microsoft
Mar 21, 2024
Johan_Vanaken , expanding the options for what kind of drivers should be automatically approved, or excluded from automatic approval is something we are looking at. Some of the key things we are taking a closer look at are what fields or parameters would be best for autoapproval, as well as how reliable the data driving that is. Much of the info comes from the driver publisher and we don't have control over what they enter. We want a more-granular auto-approval capability to be both easy to use and reliable. Today, automatic approvals are for all driver publisher recommended drivers, meaning that these are drivers that if your device normally scanned for updates would be offered to the device, so in most cases, these are good drivers to have automatically approved. The Other drivers do require manual approval effort.

Hope that helps!
-David, Product Manager - Intune

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Mar 21, 20248:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT