Windows Autopatch, How it Works | Automate updates to Windows PCs and devices

Go inside our new cloud service with ring-based deployment built-in for the automation of software update management for Windows, Microsoft Edge and your Office and Microsoft 365 apps, including Teams. Windows Autopatch will provide upcoming support for Windows 11 upgrades. If you're using our premium subscription services, it may be available to you at no additional cost.

Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, reverse engineers Windows Autopatch service to show how it works (within Intune and Azure Active Directory), how to get it running, and the time saving configurations it makes on your behalf.

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00:00 - Introduction
02:11 - Enable Windows Autopatch
02:58 - Register devices
05:47 - How sequenced rollouts work
08:19 - Behind broad ring policy
09:42 - Office and Microsoft 365 app updates
10:13 - Wrap up

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[DeployJeremy]

Was fun going inside how the Windows Autopatch service automates the creation of AAD groups and policies to configure ring based deployment of Windows quality and feature updates. Let us know what you think. It's a major time saver.

[russwilson]

Great Windows Autopatch overview Jeremy. Excited to be working on this important service allowing IT Teams to free up time with Microsoft taking care of patch rollout.

[johnvintzel]

Great job showing off all the cool things my team is building!

[ChrisTulip]

Really cool to see the stuff I've worked on on Microsoft Mechanics! Love how Jeremy breaks it all down

[hsarvesh]

Really nice to see Windows Autopatch..

[ngabrunhosa]

This is really great but please can we have a third party software patching as well.

[moepskie]

Looks good. I've been an Intune user for sometime, but I'm a bit confused about the statement made between 2:00 and 2:10 which says: "It can also automatically take necessary actions like pausing or rolling back quality updates if issues are detected".

How does this process get automated exactly? As far as I've experienced until now (so Intune without Autopatch), I always had to do this manually. Really curious about how that works!

[Peccavi]

I see drivers update in your screens... when will the rest of us see it released?

[SanjaySalmansd]

thank you so much sir for valuable info with details patch management

[francescoferrise]

Very powerful service, but this Warning let us a little bit confused: "Adding or importing devices into any of these groups directly is not supported and doing so might cause an unexpected impact on the Windows Autopatch service."

But, can we create other AzureAD groups with dynamic device assignment and assign those groups to Windows Autopatch rings? Or is possible to change the assignment of these groups (Modern Workplace Devices-Windows Autopatch-XXX) from static to dynamic?

[adampembs]

We are enrolled in the UK government "Cyber Essentials" program. Part of this demands security patches are updated within 7 days. Can the Autopatch feature achieve this in a reliable manner?

[mediabeyondajr]

There are more quick-hit videos of Autopatch on the Windows IT Pro channel too.

[bbowling]

Have drivers been an issue with Auto Patch?
I know this vid is a year old so I am just checking to see if anyone is still having issues with drivers specifically?

I haven't played around with this in a little while.

[bw_merlin]

If you don't use Intune as your MDM is this available for other MDM options?

[ashishkiit]

if I have to blacklist a patch and allow others for a particular month, can I do that?

[Necsissy]

Does this tool support Forced restarts or allow metrics to track actions?

[mburland]

Imagine if Windows came with a built in service that could automatically patch (update) Windows and Microsoft apps...

[markc]

Always a cost for basic features with Microsoft. The fact is, the only need for patches is because Microsoft screwed up the software on the first place, and patches are needed to secure the broken systems. For this, Microsoft expect us to