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This article outlines your responsibilities and Windows Autopatch's responsibilities when:
Task | Your responsibility | Windows Autopatch |
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Review the prerequisites | ✔️ | ❌ |
Review the FAQ | ✔️ | ❌ |
Review the service data platform and privacy compliance details | ✔️ | ❌ |
Consult the Deployment guide | ✔️ | ❌ |
Ensure device prerequisites are met and in place prior to feature activation | ✔️ | ❌ |
Ensure infrastructure and environment prerequisites are met and in place before feature activation | ✔️ | ❌ |
Prepare to remove your devices from existing unsupported Windows update and Microsoft 365 policies | ✔️ | ❌ |
Configure required network endpoints | ✔️ | ❌ |
Activate Windows Autopatch features | ✔️ | ❌ |
Identify stakeholders for deployment communications | ✔️ | ❌ |
For more information and assistance with preparing for your Windows Autopatch deployment journey, see Need additional guidance.
Task | Your responsibility | Windows Autopatch |
---|---|---|
Add and verify admin contacts in Microsoft Intune | ✔️ | ❌ |
Deploy and configure Windows Autopatch service configuration | ❌ | ✔️ |
Educate users on the Windows Autopatch end user update experience | ✔️ | ❌ |
Review network optimization | ✔️ | ❌ |
Review existing configurations
|
✔️ | ❌ |
Confirm your update service needs and configure your workloads | ✔️ | ❌ |
Consider your Autopatch groups distribution | ✔️ | ❌ |
Register devices | ✔️ | ❌ |
Review devices report | ❌ | ✔️ |
Automatically assign devices to deployment rings at device registration | ❌ | ✔️ |
Remediate registration issues | ✔️ | ❌ |
Populate the Test and Last deployment ring membership | ✔️ | ❌ |
Manually override device assignments to deployment rings | ✔️ | ❌ |
Review device conflict scenarios | ✔️ | ❌ |
Communicate to end-users, help desk and stakeholders | ✔️ | ❌ |
Task | Your responsibility | Windows Autopatch |
---|---|---|
Maintain contacts in the Microsoft Intune admin center | ✔️ | ❌ |
Maintain and manage the Windows Autopatch service configuration | ❌ | ✔️ |
Maintain customer configuration to align with the Windows Autopatch service configuration | ✔️ | ❌ |
Resolve service remediated device conflict scenarios | ❌ | ✔️ |
Resolve remediated device conflict scenarios | ✔️ | ❌ |
Maintain the Test and Last deployment ring membership | ✔️ | ❌ |
Define and implement service default release schedule | ❌ | ✔️ |
Maintain your workload configuration and custom release schedule | ✔️ | ❌ |
Communicate the update release schedule to IT admins | ❌ | ✔️ |
Release updates (as scheduled) | ❌ | ✔️ |
Release updates | ❌ | ✔️ |
Release updates (OOB) | ❌ | ✔️ |
Deploy updates to devices | ❌ | ✔️ |
Monitor Windows quality or feature updates through the release cycle | ❌ | ✔️ |
Review release announcements | ✔️ | ❌ |
Review deployment progress using Windows Autopatch reports | ✔️ | ❌ |
Pause updates (initiated by you) | ✔️ | ❌ |
Run ongoing post-registration device readiness checks | ❌ | ✔️ |
Maintain existing configurations
|
✔️ | ❌ |
Understand the health of Up to date devices and investigate devices that are | ||
Raise, manage and resolve a service incident if an update management area isn't meeting the service level objective | ❌ | ✔️ |
Exclude a device | ✔️ | ❌ |
Register a device that was previously excluded | ✔️ | ❌ |
Request deactivation from Windows Autopatch | ✔️ | ❌ |
Remove Windows Autopatch data from the service and exclude devices | ❌ | ✔️ |
Maintain update configuration & update devices post deactivation from Windows Autopatch | ✔️ | ❌ |
Review and respond to Message Center and Service Health Dashboard notifications | ✔️ | ❌ |
Highlight Windows Autopatch management alerts that require customer action | ❌ | ✔️ |
Review and respond to Windows Autopatch management alerts | ✔️ | ❌ |
Raise and respond to support requests | ✔️ | ❌ |
Manage and respond to support requests | ❌ | ✔️ |
Review the What's new section to stay up to date with updated feature and service releases | ✔️ | ❌ |
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