Validating and testing updates

You need to know how updating Windows will affect users' devices. Therefore, you need time to verify and check the changes before they are made available to your organization.

We have already discussed how to use a servicing channel to build the notion of deployment rings, along with deferment values. Using deployment rings helps you to get and check potential updates before continued deployment.

You can also consider using additional services to distribute updates to Windows, rather than relying solely on Windows Update servers. You can choose between the following deployment tools to spread the Windows updates in your organization:

• Windows Server Update Services (WSUS): This is a server role for Windows Server 2019. WSUS downloads updates from servers running Windows Update. You can then customize how it propagates these changes to your client computers. This gives you time to check the changes and verify them.
• Windows Update...