After getting familiar with all the processes that occur when deploying updates and understanding them, the next step is deployment. The deployment phase has two main modes:
- Manual: All objects that require the deployment of updates are created manually.
- Automatic: Creating an automation, which will later be deploying updates by itself. The wizard creates Software Update Groups as well as Deployment Packages.
The manual mode in WSUS has had the ability to deploy updates in an automated way and now, so does ConfigMgr.
Deployment always consists of the same objects, regardless of the mode:
- Software Update Groups: An object that returns updates. The software update group is assigned to a collection, which means all items assigned to it will be deployed to a collection computer. A software update group can be created using the...
