We’re excited to announce the final availability of Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences, the evolution of our Replace Compliance answer. Designed for speedy innovation, it combines organizational and device-level reporting with actionable information and insights. On this put up, you’ll learn to get extra from Home windows updates monitoring with personalized experiences on wealthy deployment information by seamless integration with a number of Microsoft 365 instruments, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics. We suggest you progress to this new answer as quickly as doable.

Just a few weeks in the past, we posted an article Saying Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences explaining the enhancements that have been coming. Now, you’ll be able to entry this new expertise with the next experiences:

• High quality updates: Monitor safety updates throughout all gadgets, together with expedited updates.
• Characteristic updates: Monitor function updates throughout all gadgets, together with finish of service, relevant safeguards, and Home windows 11 eligibility reporting.
• Supply optimization (preview): Bandwidth financial savings % throughout all content-types with further reporting for gadgets utilizing Microsoft Related Cache.

Look contained in the Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences

Entry Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences from the Insights Hub within the Azure portal. That is the first entry level for accessing the experiences. Azure Insights is a curated expertise powered by Azure Workbooks that gives you with a monitoring view on your Azure assets. You will discover Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences underneath “Different”.

Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences are proven situated within the Insights Hub of the Azure Portal

Let us take a look at some core reporting capabilities obtainable to you with Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences.

Organizational and device-level reporting

Within the expertise, we have launched an idea of an update-status view and device-status view in each the function replace and high quality replace experiences. You should utilize the update-status view to trace the progress of your focused updates (together with these managed by Home windows Replace for Enterprise deployment service).

The replace standing view reveals you in-progress deployments by safety goal construct, multi function view

You should utilize the device-status view to verify how gadgets are configured and goal particular gadgets that are not updating on account of a difficulty flagged with an alert. The picture under illustrates the flyout that seems as soon as you choose the title of a particular machine you need to evaluate.

The machine standing view reveals your particular machine’s configuration, such because the consumer insurance policies set and the final time the machine scanned Home windows Replace

Change from one report view to a different proper underneath the abstract playing cards for Key Efficiency Indicators (KPIs). By differentiating replace compliance and machine compliance, you’ve gotten one of the best of each worlds to assist with the success of future deployments. New content material experiences sooner or later (e.g., drivers and firmware) will comply with the identical sample.

Actionable information and insights

Typically a tool hits a snag earlier than ending the set up of an replace. To assist perceive what is going on on, we have improved the alerting expertise all through the report. With extra call-to-action alerts and suggestions on resolve them, you are able to do a first-level triage to repair gadgets that are not updating.

We suggest attempting to deal with the highest alerts which are impacting most of your gadgets first to have the biggest impression:

1. From the overview web page, choose the Complete energetic alerts KPI card to see the highest errors and the variety of impacted gadgets.
2. Type the checklist by the variety of gadgets from there.

The energetic alerts view reveals the checklist of prime alerts with their corresponding particulars

Occupied with attempting this expertise on your personal Home windows replace compliance targets? Let’s examine how one can enroll in Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences or transition from Replace Compliance in case you’re a present consumer.

Enroll in Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences

In case you’ve already enabled the public preview of what we earlier referred to as Azure Workbooks for Replace Compliance, you are all set!

If you have not, you’ll be able to enroll your tenant after getting met the stipulations:

• Signed up for Azure Energetic Listing (Azure AD enrolled or hybrid-joined).
• Configured gadgets to ship diagnostic information to Microsoft to be used with Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences.

To request enrollment, please check in with one of many following Azure AD consumer roles:

• Intune administrator
• Home windows Replace for Enterprise administrator
• International administrator

Alternatively, you’ll be able to check in with the Intune coverage and profile supervisor position.

Enroll throughout the Azure Workbook expertise itself. You may virtually comply with the trail from the Azure portal to Monitor > Workbooks > Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences > Get began > Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences enrolment. The complete walkthrough is printed in Allow Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences. Right here you’ll configure your Azure subscription and Log Analytics Workspaces, underneath which you need your information to be populated.

The Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences enrollment flyout allows you to configure your subscription and Log Analytics Office

In case you’re new to this, see simply create an Azure Subscription and Log Analytics workspaces.

Transition plan for Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences

In case you are an present Replace Compliance consumer, the legacy expertise will proceed to be supported and work as you are accustomed to for a restricted time, till a full transition has been made. Nonetheless, we’re not accepting new enrollments for the Replace Compliance answer. What this implies:

• On November 30^th, Replace Compliance will not be obtainable for obtain within the Azure market.
• On November 30^th, the power to re-generate a CommercialID for present deployments might be disabled.

In case you’re an present consumer, to proceed to obtain replace information by our legacy Replace Compliance answer, plan to enroll in Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences by January 15, 2023. Please word that solely Azure AD joined (or hybrid-joined) gadgets might be supported from this level ahead. On March 31, 2023, we’ll finish help for the legacy Replace Compliance expertise and cease offering replace information to this product.

We encourage you to enroll into Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences now, to keep away from any workflow or dependencies disruption throughout this transition. For instance, if in case you have customized dashboards which are utilizing the previous Log Analytics tables, we urge you to begin transitioning and constructing on prime of the new information schema.

Be taught extra and enroll at this time!

Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences is constructed for you, based mostly on the suggestions of many Replace Compliance customers and all who’ve participated within the preview. With a revamped consumer expertise, richer replace deployment information and higher alert monitoring, we’re assured that these new experiences will assist you higher handle your replace compliance targets.

To be taught extra, watch the Microsoft Technical Takeoff session video for an evidence and illustration of Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences expertise.

Go to Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences overview for official documentation.

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