Add Scheduling and Prioritization

A truly enterprise grade patching solution needs scheduling, prior authorization, and guardrails to block problematic updates from deploying. You can use maintenance windows, prioritization and deployment bots, patching exceptions, and blocklists to address these issues.

Maintenance windows can prevent updates from being applied and machines from rebooting at inopportune times, prioritization and deployment bots can be used to roll out high priority patches, and patching exceptions and the blocklist ensure that updates that cause problems do not get deployed to the entire enterprise.

Refer to the following sections:

• Maintenance Windows

• Prioritization and Deployment Bots

• Patching Exceptions (Risk Acceptances)

• Blocklists