FYI Windows as a service.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/deploy Cheers Justin ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Microsoft" Date: Jul 15, 2015 10:00 AM Subject: Introducing Windows as a Service To: > View as Webpage > > We are introducing a new approach in Windows 10 that bridges the gap between the need for agility and control, allowing you to more quickly take advantage of feature innovation after updates have been assessed in the consumer market. You do that by putting the profiled machines of your choice on the new Current Branch for Business (CBB) update schedule. With this option, your IT department has several months to validate updates in your environment, starting on the day changes are shipped broadly to consumers and Windows Insiders. > > By the time CBB machines are updated, the changes will have been validated by millions of Windows Insiders, consumers, and your own internal test processes for several months, allowing updates to be deployed with increased assurance.* > > We’re also introducing a new option to manage these updates with Windows Update for Business. Designed for end-user devices within businesses. Windows Update for Business will provide: > > Ability to create internal deployment groups, where the IT Pro can specify which devices go first in an update wave, and which ones will come later within your company’s environment. > > Maintenance windows to align with business rhythm, where the IT Pro can specify the critical timeframes when updates should and should not occur. > > Peer to peer delivery, which IT can enable to make delivery of updates to branch offices and remote sites with limited bandwidth very efficient. > > Integration with your existing tools like System Center and the Enterprise Mobility Suite – so that these tools can continue to be that ‘single pane of glass’ for all of your systems management. > Businesses that choose to take advantage of connecting end-user machines to Windows Update for Business may experience a reduction in management costs, quicker access to security updates and critical fixes, and access to the latest innovation from Microsoft on an ongoing basis. Keeping end-user devices that are not mission critical on the Current Branch for Business, while receiving updates via Windows Update for Business, is a best practice for Windows 10 that we recommend for many enterprise users, such as hospital administrators and office workers. > > Through partnership with our customers as we’ve developed Windows 10, we’ve learned that many of you would like to plan a different pace of updates for different users and systems, based on specific business. Our current branch for business was developed to make that possible. > > *For business environments that require very strict change management policies for prolonged periods of time, we will provide Long Term Servicing Branches at appropriate time intervals. > > > > > > > > > > Please do not reply to this email > > This is prerelease software. Windows 10 Technical Preview may be substantially modified before it’s commercially released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here. Some product features and functionality may require additional hardware or software. > > Microsoft Corporation > One Microsoft Way > Redmond, Washington 98052 > United States > ©Microsoft Corporation. > All rights reserved. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
