Update Rings Overview

Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud

The Update Rings feature of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud allows you to deploy apps and updates in a phased manner across your Intune estate.

For example, you may want to deploy software to a pilot group of users/devices to ensure it functions as expected. Then after a set period of time, you want to deploy the update to wider group of users/devices and pause a set amount of time to check for issues. Then finally, if there are no issues, deploy the update to the remaining users/devices in scope for the deployment.

Although this approach increases the amount of time it takes to deploy software, it can reduce the impact of deploying software with unforeseen issues that impacts your business in undesirable ways.

Note

Update Rings do not use Intune's built-in capability to create delayed assignments.

The use of Update Rings is optional and is controlled at the individual deployment level.