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Published inJan 2024
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ISBN-139781805126546
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Andrew Taylor
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Andrew Taylor is an End-User Compute architect with 20 years IT experience across industries and a particular interest in Microsoft Cloud technologies, PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. Andrew graduated with a degree in Business Studies in 2004 from Lancaster University and since then has obtained numerous Microsoft certifications including Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Cybersecurity Architect Expert amongst others. He currently working as an EUC Architect for an IT Company in the United Kingdom, planning and automating the products across the EUC space. Andrew lives on the coast in the North East of England with his wife and two daughters.
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Enrolling and using Autopatch

If you have Windows Enterprise Licensing (Microsoft 365 E3, E5, or Windows E3), instead of manually configuring and populating your Windows update rings, you can use Windows Autopatch from Microsoft. This is a semi-managed service that automates updates for Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, Edge, Drivers, SQL ODBC, and .NET. When using Autopatch, Microsoft can also centrally pause updates so that if it notices a particular update is causing issues, it can block it before it is installed on your devices and then automatically resume it when the issue has been resolved.

As well as the click-and-forget option, you can also use Autopatch groups for more granular control over your updates. This will be covered in the There’s more… section of this recipe.

Getting ready

Before we deploy any configuration, you need to onboard your tenant into the service. For this, you will need two administrative contacts and a user account with...

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Microsoft Intune Cookbook
Published in: Jan 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805126546

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Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor is an End-User Compute architect with 20 years IT experience across industries and a particular interest in Microsoft Cloud technologies, PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. Andrew graduated with a degree in Business Studies in 2004 from Lancaster University and since then has obtained numerous Microsoft certifications including Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Cybersecurity Architect Expert amongst others. He currently working as an EUC Architect for an IT Company in the United Kingdom, planning and automating the products across the EUC space. Andrew lives on the coast in the North East of England with his wife and two daughters.
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