• Looks like Windows 10 is going to get something like “Group B”

    Posted on April 25, 2017 at 10:09 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    My head’s still reeling, but Microsoft patching honcho Michael Niehaus has just published information about a new patching branch for Windows 10 Creators Update.

    we will routinely offer one (or sometimes more than one) additional update each month. These additional cumulative updates will contain only new non-security updates, so they will be considered “Updates” in WSUS and Configuration Manager.

    The admin options:

    • Deploy each of them just like the updates on “Update Tuesday.” This enables the organization’s PCs to get the latest fixes more quickly.

    • Deploy each of them to a subset of devices. This enables the organization to ensure that these new non-security fixes work well, prior to those same fixes being included in the next “Update Tuesday” cumulative update which will be deployed throughout the organization.

    • Selectively deploy them, based on whether they address specific issues affecting the organization, ahead of the next “Update Tuesday” cumulative update.

    • Don’t deploy them at all. There is no harm in doing this since the same fixes will be included in the “Update Tuesday” cumulative update (along with all the new security fixes).

    Would somebody please tell me how this differs from the Windows Insider “Preview” ring?

    My head’s swimming. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more complicated…

    UPDATE: Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet repeats the announcement. I’m still baffled.

    Windows Patches/Security
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