User Summit

January 26, 2017Window Patching

Updates

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Agenda

› Changing Landscape

› The Radia Patch Management Process

› Detailed Steps and Key Enhancements

› Radia Patch Management Vision

› Roadmap

› Q & A

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Changing Landscape

› Microsoft aims to revamp the patching experience› Simplicity and convenience

› Cumulative patches› Fewer updates to manage, higher predictability & quality› Similar service update model for all supported versions› Stay current with reduced administrative overhead› Larger patch binaries

› Security Updates Guide (coming February)› Better access to update information› Search for updates online – manually or programmatically› CVE and KB based patches, retirement of bulletins

› Servicing branches (Windows 10)› CB, CBB, LTSB and deferral periods

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The Radia Patch Management Process

Export to Production

Patch Discovery

Entitle to All DevicesDeploy

Patch Compliance Reporting

Acquisition

Patch Discovery

Entitle to Test Group of Devices

Deploy

Patch Compliance Reporting

TEST PRODUCTION

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Acquisition

• Configure selective acquisition

• Select patches based on product

category, dates, products, severity &

impact ( Or )

• “KB*” to acquire all the newly released

patches

• Acquire new patches continuously

(recurrence)

• Day, Time, Monthly, weekly, daily, End date

etc.

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Entitlement

• Entitle simplified one-time patch

policies to device groups• ALL_OS_SEC_PATCHES

• OS_AND_PRODUCT_SEC_PATCHES

• OS_ROLLUP_PATCHES

• PRODUCT_ROLLUP_PATCHES

• OS_AND_PRODUCT_ROLLUP

• New patches in a category get

automatically installed next time

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Deployment – P2P

q P2P Configurations • P2P on/off• P2P server configuration for

subnets• Parameters

q Patch deployment with P2P

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The Radia Patch Management – Unprecedented Automation

› Configure recurring acquisition criteria

› Entitle policies once to staging (test) and production

groups

› Configure auto promote rules from staging (test) groups to

production groups including checkpoints

› Deploy P2P together with bandwidth management

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Radia Patching roadmap

February 2017 June 2017 November 2017

9.x, 10.x versions 10.0 CP1 10.0 CP2q UI based KB patch acquisition

q Product Category

q Products

q Dates

q Severity etc.

q KB* convenience

q Generic one-time policies

q P2P based content distribution

q P2P servers on satellites

q Parameter configuration through

UI

q Automatic & recurrent acquisition

q Staging to production promote

through console

q Automatic

q Manual

q Automated recurring deployment

q Eliminate WSUScn2.cab based

patching

Accelerite Confidential

q KB based patching

q Custom XML based patching

q Support for all the Radia versions

Thank You!

Q & A

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