Update 2.14.2023: The public preview is now available and the roadmap below has been updated to reflect the current plan of record.
Update 8.16.2022: Based on your feedback and comments, we are clarifying the definition of public preview in the platform versus in Microsoft Intune. We are also updating the roadmap.
Public preview for the platform means that the Graph API for drivers and firmware management are accessible publicly in the beta endpoint. A Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3/E5 license is required to independently access and use the API. Further, Update Compliance reporting for recommended drivers and approved drivers is available. We will also share the code used for the web application as documentation for the Graph API and examples on how call and use the API when you build your own applications for drivers and firmware management.
Public preview for Intune means that the portal makes available driver servicing management, including in-portal reporting. Intune is using the same APIs, but the UI/UX in Intune is significantly more capable and user friendly give its application maturity.
Today I am excited to announce the public preview for the Windows Update for Business deployment service will be available in Microsoft Graph and in Microsoft Endpoint Manager in the first half of 2022!
Drivers 101 – How do drivers and firmware updates make it to Windows Update? How does Windows Update identify the best drivers and/or firmware for your device?
A roadmap update – A look at what's to come and an invitation to join our engineering neighborhood and the preview!
Note that while I will be using the term drivers exclusively from here, firmware updates are included in this definition, as they are published to Windows Update, target Windows devices, and offered to devices in the exact same way as non-firmware driver updates.
Drivers 101
How do drivers and firmware updates reach Windows Update?
Drivers are primarily built by independent hardware vendors (IHVs) like Intel or Realtek and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) like Dell and Lenovo. The hardware ecosystem for Windows devices includes hundreds of partners who continuously build new drivers and deliver updates to existing ones. All drivers must be certified by the Windows Hardware Dev Center and signed by Microsoft for Windows to install them, and most are published to Windows Update.
Through flighting and gradual rollout, the Microsoft Drivers and Firmware Shiproom validates all drivers before making them generally available on Windows Update.
Driver flighting in the Partner Center enables hardware partners, including IHVs and OEMs, to distribute drivers within defined Windows Insider rings, while providing automatic monitoring and evaluation. Be sure to review the driver validation program for more details on this program.
When driver validation is complete, Microsoft gradually rolls out drivers over 30 days while applying monitoring and scrutiny. At the first sign of concern, rollout is stopped, and further investigations quickly determine if the update can resume rollout or if it must be removed from Windows Update.
How do IHVs and OEMs configure drivers and firmware updates to target devices?
Drivers are built for specific hardware components that are identified by unique IDs:
A Hardware ID (HWID) is a vendor-defined identification string that Windows reads from the hardware component itself, locally on a system, and uses to match a device to an INF file that is part of any driver package authored by a hardware vendor. Hardware vendors use the INF file to define which hardware components the driver is designed for, and the same IDs are used for targeting these components when drivers are published to Windows Update.
A Computer Hardware ID (CHID) is part of a set of hardware ID values for a computer that specify a combination of the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) field data. CHIDs provide several levels of specificity to help identify systems. Driver publishers can add an additional layer of targeting by including CHIDs on top of HWIDs to target specific system models with the hardware components the driver was designed for.
Publishers can manage how Windows Update offers drivers by specifying whether an update should be offered during the automatic daily scan or offered only when an end user manually initiates a scan. Accordingly, these publishing options are called Automatic and Manual:
Automatic publishing, previously known as Critical, instructs Windows Update to immediately offer any such update to applicable devices as soon as possible, usually during the automatic daily scan. Publishing a driver as automatic will ensure the fastest delivery to many more scanning systems, pushing drivers that meet the HWID and/or CHID targeting applicability requirements to systems.
Manual publishing, previously known as Optional, instructs Windows Update to offer such updates to applicable devices when the end user checks for updates in the Settings App. Publishers use this option to deliver the driver to Windows Updates while controlling the flow of offering to devices by limiting it to pull requests.
How does Windows Update identify the best drivers and/or firmware for my device?
When a Windows device scans Windows Update, it sends the service the HWIDs that identify all hardware components in the device, CHIDs for the system, and a complete list of the drivers that are already installed on the device for each hardware component. Windows Update then goes through a two-step applicability and ranking process to determine if a better driver exists on the service.
During the applicability process, Windows Update gathers the complete list of published drivers that target HWIDs and/or CHIDs in a system. When these drivers are identified, Windows Update ranks them.
During ranking, Windows Update sorts applicable updates by version and publication date and identifies the placement of the drivers that are already installed for the component on the sorted list. This is repeated for each hardware component in the system, based on the set of applicable drivers.
If there are no drivers that rank higher than the one currently on the device, then no better driver exists, and Windows Update will not offer an option. However, if there are newer drivers on the list, Windows Update will pick the highest ranking one—normally by version number or version date—and will offer that better driver. Generally, Windows Update only considers automatic drivers for its ranking process. Manual drivers that are either newer or of a most recent version are not considered better than what is already installed on the scanning system during the automatic scan. The only exception is when the end user scans manually, which allows Windows Update to consider the best ranked driver across automatic and manual publications.
Management and reporting in Windows Update for Business and Microsoft Graph
The Windows Update for Business deployment service is already part of Microsoft Graph, and it enables app developers who integrate with our platform to create management experiences for Windows Update servicing.
Don't miss the November Microsoft Ignite session for more details and for demos by David Guyer on live code in the Intune portal and Aria Carley on how Configuration Manager devices can access driver management in the cloud by turning on dual-scan group policy for drivers. This leaves Configuration Manager in Windows Server Update Services unchanged while the deployment service provides net-new driver management capabilities.
Just as Intune integrates with Graph to build management experiences, any app developer can do so too. We built a web application that integrates with Graph to provide admins early access to these capabilities whether during the current private preview or the upcoming public preview. The web application allows admins to create new driver policies, browse applicable drivers, and take approval and scheduling actions. It will be open source during the public preview, and you'll have insight into the integration with Graph.
We're also excited to share a first look at the management reporting that will support driver servicing capabilities when they reach public preview. These reports will be available as Workbooks in our analytics product for Windows Update for Business: Update Compliance.
Reporting will be launched for:
Approved updates, including drilldowns to show individual device impact.
Recommended updates that require attention, including drilldowns to show individual device impact. Suspended updates will also be reported.
Roadmap (updated 2.14.2023)
The private preview for the platform in Microsoft Graph kicked concluded in January 2023 and the service is now in public preview. In May 2022, Intune kicked off a limited private preview for a small set of customers and are slowly expanding. Our current estimates are that Intune will be publicly available in mid-2023. Look for a post from Intune with updates on the launch timeline.
Join the community and enroll in the private preview
Want to stay informed and to engage with other IT admins in the community? Be sure to join our engineering neighborhood in the Windows Customer Connection Program (select the option in question 5). Regular updates, including timing for all preview phases will be provided via Microsoft Teams.
If par example we deployed a driver which is causing issues to a pilot group. We then won`t deploy the driver to prod, but we need to rollback the previous driver to the pilot group. Would be great to have this possibility though Intune as well.
Nir_Froimovici when will this be released? Also how do we update Drivers whilst we waiting for this. We keep getting error due to ASR rules or Defender but I'm unable to pinpoint the error or source. Anyone?
Thank you for your article, deploying firmware and drivers have been a great challenge and this would make our job easier. We still have concern about update failure and possibility of system failure to boot but generally this is a great feature.
Hi all, Can we have an update please we all eager to start testing as this will improve the way we update how Dell Drivers and Firmware, if there is a delay on the rollout please update.
Nir_Froimovici - Can we please get an update on when this new driver service will make it to Public Preview? The update added on 3/9/22 said "we plan to launch all capabilities in public preview in July 2022." Now it is August and I'm eager to start testing this out in our environment.
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Explore the Windows Update for Business deployment service and learn about the preview for Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
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Update 2.14.2023: The public preview is now available and the roadmap below has been updated to reflect the current plan of record.
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Update 8.16.2022: Based on your feedback and comments, we are clarifying the definition of public preview in the platform versus in Microsoft Intune. We are also updating the roadmap.
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Public preview for the platform means that the Graph API for drivers and firmware management are accessible publicly in the beta endpoint. A Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3/E5 license is required to independently access and use the API. Further, Update Compliance reporting for recommended drivers and approved drivers is available. We will also share the code used for the web application as documentation for the Graph API and examples on how call and use the API when you build your own applications for drivers and firmware management.
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Public preview for Intune means that the portal makes available driver servicing management, including in-portal reporting. Intune is using the same APIs, but the UI/UX in Intune is significantly more capable and user friendly give its application maturity.
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Today I am excited to announce the public preview for the Windows Update for Business deployment service will be available in Microsoft Graph and in Microsoft Endpoint Manager in the first half of 2022!
Drivers 101 – How do drivers and firmware updates make it to Windows Update? How does Windows Update identify the best drivers and/or firmware for your device?
A roadmap update – A look at what's to come and an invitation to join our engineering neighborhood and the preview!
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Note that while I will be using the term drivers exclusively from here, firmware updates are included in this definition, as they are published to Windows Update, target Windows devices, and offered to devices in the exact same way as non-firmware driver updates.
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Drivers 101
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How do drivers and firmware updates reach Windows Update?
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Drivers are primarily built by independent hardware vendors (IHVs) like Intel or Realtek and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) like Dell and Lenovo. The hardware ecosystem for Windows devices includes hundreds of partners who continuously build new drivers and deliver updates to existing ones. All drivers must be certified by the Windows Hardware Dev Center and signed by Microsoft for Windows to install them, and most are published to Windows Update.
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Through flighting and gradual rollout, the Microsoft Drivers and Firmware Shiproom validates all drivers before making them generally available on Windows Update.
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Driver flighting in the Partner Center enables hardware partners, including IHVs and OEMs, to distribute drivers within defined Windows Insider rings, while providing automatic monitoring and evaluation. Be sure to review the driver validation program for more details on this program.
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When driver validation is complete, Microsoft gradually rolls out drivers over 30 days while applying monitoring and scrutiny. At the first sign of concern, rollout is stopped, and further investigations quickly determine if the update can resume rollout or if it must be removed from Windows Update.
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How do IHVs and OEMs configure drivers and firmware updates to target devices?
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Drivers are built for specific hardware components that are identified by unique IDs:
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A Hardware ID (HWID) is a vendor-defined identification string that Windows reads from the hardware component itself, locally on a system, and uses to match a device to an INF file that is part of any driver package authored by a hardware vendor. Hardware vendors use the INF file to define which hardware components the driver is designed for, and the same IDs are used for targeting these components when drivers are published to Windows Update.
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A Computer Hardware ID (CHID) is part of a set of hardware ID values for a computer that specify a combination of the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) field data. CHIDs provide several levels of specificity to help identify systems. Driver publishers can add an additional layer of targeting by including CHIDs on top of HWIDs to target specific system models with the hardware components the driver was designed for.
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Publishers can manage how Windows Update offers drivers by specifying whether an update should be offered during the automatic daily scan or offered only when an end user manually initiates a scan. Accordingly, these publishing options are called Automatic and Manual:
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Automatic publishing, previously known as Critical, instructs Windows Update to immediately offer any such update to applicable devices as soon as possible, usually during the automatic daily scan. Publishing a driver as automatic will ensure the fastest delivery to many more scanning systems, pushing drivers that meet the HWID and/or CHID targeting applicability requirements to systems.
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Manual publishing, previously known as Optional, instructs Windows Update to offer such updates to applicable devices when the end user checks for updates in the Settings App. Publishers use this option to deliver the driver to Windows Updates while controlling the flow of offering to devices by limiting it to pull requests.
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How does Windows Update identify the best drivers and/or firmware for my device?
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When a Windows device scans Windows Update, it sends the service the HWIDs that identify all hardware components in the device, CHIDs for the system, and a complete list of the drivers that are already installed on the device for each hardware component. Windows Update then goes through a two-step applicability and ranking process to determine if a better driver exists on the service.
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During the applicability process, Windows Update gathers the complete list of published drivers that target HWIDs and/or CHIDs in a system. When these drivers are identified, Windows Update ranks them.
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During ranking, Windows Update sorts applicable updates by version and publication date and identifies the placement of the drivers that are already installed for the component on the sorted list. This is repeated for each hardware component in the system, based on the set of applicable drivers.
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If there are no drivers that rank higher than the one currently on the device, then no better driver exists, and Windows Update will not offer an option. However, if there are newer drivers on the list, Windows Update will pick the highest ranking one—normally by version number or version date—and will offer that better driver. Generally, Windows Update only considers automatic drivers for its ranking process. Manual drivers that are either newer or of a most recent version are not considered better than what is already installed on the scanning system during the automatic scan. The only exception is when the end user scans manually, which allows Windows Update to consider the best ranked driver across automatic and manual publications.
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Management and reporting in Windows Update for Business and Microsoft Graph
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The Windows Update for Business deployment service is already part of Microsoft Graph, and it enables app developers who integrate with our platform to create management experiences for Windows Update servicing.
Don't miss the November Microsoft Ignite session for more details and for demos by David Guyer on live code in the Intune portal and Aria Carley on how Configuration Manager devices can access driver management in the cloud by turning on dual-scan group policy for drivers. This leaves Configuration Manager in Windows Server Update Services unchanged while the deployment service provides net-new driver management capabilities.
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Just as Intune integrates with Graph to build management experiences, any app developer can do so too. We built a web application that integrates with Graph to provide admins early access to these capabilities whether during the current private preview or the upcoming public preview. The web application allows admins to create new driver policies, browse applicable drivers, and take approval and scheduling actions. It will be open source during the public preview, and you'll have insight into the integration with Graph.
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We're also excited to share a first look at the management reporting that will support driver servicing capabilities when they reach public preview. These reports will be available as Workbooks in our analytics product for Windows Update for Business: Update Compliance.
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Reporting will be launched for:
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Approved updates, including drilldowns to show individual device impact.
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Recommended updates that require attention, including drilldowns to show individual device impact. Suspended updates will also be reported.
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Roadmap (updated 2.14.2023)
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The private preview for the platform in Microsoft Graph kicked concluded in January 2023 and the service is now in public preview. In May 2022, Intune kicked off a limited private preview for a small set of customers and are slowly expanding. Our current estimates are that Intune will be publicly available in mid-2023. Look for a post from Intune with updates on the launch timeline.
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Join the community and enroll in the private preview
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Want to stay informed and to engage with other IT admins in the community? Be sure to join our engineering neighborhood in the Windows Customer Connection Program (select the option in question 5). Regular updates, including timing for all preview phases will be provided via Microsoft Teams.
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Update 2.14.2023: The public preview is now available and the roadmap below has been updated to reflect the current plan of record.
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Update 8.16.2022: Based on your feedback and comments, we are clarifying the definition of public preview in the platform versus in Microsoft Intune. We are also updating the roadmap.
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Public preview for the platform means that the Graph API for drivers and firmware management are accessible publicly in the beta endpoint. A Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3/E5 license is required to independently access and use the API. Further, Update Compliance reporting for recommended drivers and approved drivers is available. We will also share the code used for the web application as documentation for the Graph API and examples on how call and use the API when you build your own applications for drivers and firmware management.
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Public preview for Intune means that the portal makes available driver servicing management, including in-portal reporting. Intune is using the same APIs, but the UI/UX in Intune is significantly more capable and user friendly give its application maturity.
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Today I am excited to announce the public preview for the Windows Update for Business deployment service will be available in Microsoft Graph and in Microsoft Endpoint Manager in the first half of 2022!
Drivers 101 – How do drivers and firmware updates make it to Windows Update? How does Windows Update identify the best drivers and/or firmware for your device?
A roadmap update – A look at what's to come and an invitation to join our engineering neighborhood and the preview!
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Note that while I will be using the term drivers exclusively from here, firmware updates are included in this definition, as they are published to Windows Update, target Windows devices, and offered to devices in the exact same way as non-firmware driver updates.
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Drivers 101
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How do drivers and firmware updates reach Windows Update?
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Drivers are primarily built by independent hardware vendors (IHVs) like Intel or Realtek and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) like Dell and Lenovo. The hardware ecosystem for Windows devices includes hundreds of partners who continuously build new drivers and deliver updates to existing ones. All drivers must be certified by the Windows Hardware Dev Center and signed by Microsoft for Windows to install them, and most are published to Windows Update.
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Through flighting and gradual rollout, the Microsoft Drivers and Firmware Shiproom validates all drivers before making them generally available on Windows Update.
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Driver flighting in the Partner Center enables hardware partners, including IHVs and OEMs, to distribute drivers within defined Windows Insider rings, while providing automatic monitoring and evaluation. Be sure to review the driver validation program for more details on this program.
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When driver validation is complete, Microsoft gradually rolls out drivers over 30 days while applying monitoring and scrutiny. At the first sign of concern, rollout is stopped, and further investigations quickly determine if the update can resume rollout or if it must be removed from Windows Update.
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How do IHVs and OEMs configure drivers and firmware updates to target devices?
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Drivers are built for specific hardware components that are identified by unique IDs:
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A Hardware ID (HWID) is a vendor-defined identification string that Windows reads from the hardware component itself, locally on a system, and uses to match a device to an INF file that is part of any driver package authored by a hardware vendor. Hardware vendors use the INF file to define which hardware components the driver is designed for, and the same IDs are used for targeting these components when drivers are published to Windows Update.
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A Computer Hardware ID (CHID) is part of a set of hardware ID values for a computer that specify a combination of the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) field data. CHIDs provide several levels of specificity to help identify systems. Driver publishers can add an additional layer of targeting by including CHIDs on top of HWIDs to target specific system models with the hardware components the driver was designed for.
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Publishers can manage how Windows Update offers drivers by specifying whether an update should be offered during the automatic daily scan or offered only when an end user manually initiates a scan. Accordingly, these publishing options are called Automatic and Manual:
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Automatic publishing, previously known as Critical, instructs Windows Update to immediately offer any such update to applicable devices as soon as possible, usually during the automatic daily scan. Publishing a driver as automatic will ensure the fastest delivery to many more scanning systems, pushing drivers that meet the HWID and/or CHID targeting applicability requirements to systems.
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Manual publishing, previously known as Optional, instructs Windows Update to offer such updates to applicable devices when the end user checks for updates in the Settings App. Publishers use this option to deliver the driver to Windows Updates while controlling the flow of offering to devices by limiting it to pull requests.
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How does Windows Update identify the best drivers and/or firmware for my device?
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When a Windows device scans Windows Update, it sends the service the HWIDs that identify all hardware components in the device, CHIDs for the system, and a complete list of the drivers that are already installed on the device for each hardware component. Windows Update then goes through a two-step applicability and ranking process to determine if a better driver exists on the service.
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During the applicability process, Windows Update gathers the complete list of published drivers that target HWIDs and/or CHIDs in a system. When these drivers are identified, Windows Update ranks them.
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During ranking, Windows Update sorts applicable updates by version and publication date and identifies the placement of the drivers that are already installed for the component on the sorted list. This is repeated for each hardware component in the system, based on the set of applicable drivers.
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If there are no drivers that rank higher than the one currently on the device, then no better driver exists, and Windows Update will not offer an option. However, if there are newer drivers on the list, Windows Update will pick the highest ranking one—normally by version number or version date—and will offer that better driver. Generally, Windows Update only considers automatic drivers for its ranking process. Manual drivers that are either newer or of a most recent version are not considered better than what is already installed on the scanning system during the automatic scan. The only exception is when the end user scans manually, which allows Windows Update to consider the best ranked driver across automatic and manual publications.
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Management and reporting in Windows Update for Business and Microsoft Graph
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The Windows Update for Business deployment service is already part of Microsoft Graph, and it enables app developers who integrate with our platform to create management experiences for Windows Update servicing.
Don't miss the November Microsoft Ignite session for more details and for demos by David Guyer on live code in the Intune portal and Aria Carley on how Configuration Manager devices can access driver management in the cloud by turning on dual-scan group policy for drivers. This leaves Configuration Manager in Windows Server Update Services unchanged while the deployment service provides net-new driver management capabilities.
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Just as Intune integrates with Graph to build management experiences, any app developer can do so too. We built a web application that integrates with Graph to provide admins early access to these capabilities whether during the current private preview or the upcoming public preview. The web application allows admins to create new driver policies, browse applicable drivers, and take approval and scheduling actions. It will be open source during the public preview, and you'll have insight into the integration with Graph.
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We're also excited to share a first look at the management reporting that will support driver servicing capabilities when they reach public preview. These reports will be available as Workbooks in our analytics product for Windows Update for Business: Update Compliance.
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Reporting will be launched for:
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Approved updates, including drilldowns to show individual device impact.
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Recommended updates that require attention, including drilldowns to show individual device impact. Suspended updates will also be reported.
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Roadmap (updated 2.14.2023)
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The private preview for the platform in Microsoft Graph kicked concluded in January 2023 and the service is now in public preview. In May 2022, Intune kicked off a limited private preview for a small set of customers and are slowly expanding. Our current estimates are that Intune will be publicly available in mid-2023. Look for a post from Intune with updates on the launch timeline.
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Join the community and enroll in the private preview
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Want to stay informed and to engage with other IT admins in the community? Be sure to join our engineering neighborhood in the Windows Customer Connection Program (select the option in question 5). Regular updates, including timing for all preview phases will be provided via Microsoft Teams.
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Can`t wait for this tool 🙂
Is there a way to rollback a driver?
If par example we deployed a driver which is causing issues to a pilot group. We then won`t deploy the driver to prod, but we need to rollback the previous driver to the pilot group. Would be great to have this possibility though Intune as well.
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Nir_Froimovici when will this be released? Also how do we update Drivers whilst we waiting for this. We keep getting error due to ASR rules or Defender but I'm unable to pinpoint the error or source. Anyone?
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Considering it is 2023 now is the Platform Public preview available now?
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+1 following.
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When will this be available from inside Microsoft Intune fully integrated into Windows Update for Business? 🙂
WE NEED THIS 😄
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Is there an integration into MECM possible over SUP?
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any updates regarding release date?
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Thank you for your article, deploying firmware and drivers have been a great challenge and this would make our job easier. We still have concern about update failure and possibility of system failure to boot but generally this is a great feature.
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Hi all, Can we have an update please we all eager to start testing as this will improve the way we update how Dell Drivers and Firmware, if there is a delay on the rollout please update.
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Nir_Froimovici - Can we please get an update on when this new driver service will make it to Public Preview? The update added on 3/9/22 said \"we plan to launch all capabilities in public preview in July 2022.\" Now it is August and I'm eager to start testing this out in our environment.
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