They say managing enterprise Windows updates is going to get easier! Press a button and the new OS is pushed out to every device and all applications work immediately without testing or business interruption! If you manage IT infrastructure, this may sound great, but you know it’s not going to be quite that simple.
Microsoft is leading the modern management movement and wants this vision to become reality – using Intune to make updating your company’s endpoint ecosystem as simple as an iPhone update. And they may well do so – but industry analysts warn to prepare for this evolution to take at least 5-8 years.
In the interim, you still need to manage a Windows update every year.
Microsoft provides a lot of tools to get this done: Configuration Manager, InTune and Desktop Analytics being the big ones in the Modern Management suite. But those platforms alone aren’t going to replace the army of consultants you typically use to handle this.
Think about how much time you spend on these activities:
So how will you do all this, year on year, as you transition toward modern management? The answer is to automate the whole process.
You need to leverage automation to eliminate as many manual, repetitive tasks as possible. We suggest that all of the tasks below can be automated:
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So how do you do this? You really have three options:
Ease your journey to modern management and find out how ReadyWorks automates Windows Updates from start to finish. Schedule a demo today.