Microsoft is continuing to add capabilities to its budding Windows Update for Business Deployment Service, introducing a "gradual rollouts" capability this week.
Microsoft this week described how to use PowerShell to better manage Windows 10 updates when using the Windows Update for Business new Deployment Service addition.
Microsoft previews new Windows servicing APIs for enterprises
Microsoft previews new Windows servicing APIs for enterprises
Microsoft has launched a public preview of the APIs IT admins can use to control Windows Update for Business Deployment Service part of the company s efforts to push commercial customers toward cloud-only servicing for Windows 10. Credit: Dreamstime
Microsoft has launched a public preview of the APIs (application programming interfaces) that IT admins can call on to control Windows Update for Business Deployment Service, the vendor s latest effort to push commercial customers to adopt cloud-only servicing for Windows 10. With today s public preview release, you can use the Windows Update for Business deployment service directly through the Microsoft Graph API and associated SDKs, as well as Azure PowerShell, David Mebane, principal program manager lead with the Windows servicing group, said in an April 28 post.
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Microsoft last week launched a public preview of the APIs (application programming interfaces) that IT admins can call on to control Windows Update for Business Deployment Service, the company s latest effort to push commercial customers to adopt cloud-only servicing for Windows 10. With today s public preview release, you can use the Windows Update for Business deployment service directly through the Microsoft Graph API and associated SDKs, as well as Azure PowerShell, David Mebane, principal program manager lead with the Windows servicing group, said in an April 28 post.
Although Microsoft trumpeted WUfB Deployment Service at its Ignite developers conference last month, Friday was the unveiling of any actual functionality. Nor were the APIs made available last week the story s end, as Microsoft will continue to expand on the preview s functionality over an as-yet-not-nailed-down timeline.
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At its Ignite developers conference in March, Microsoft issued a host of announcements some new, some more akin to status updates about new features and functionality for IT to manage Windows, enough that it required a recorded list all its own just to keep everyone clear.
One of those announcements was of what Microsoft dubbed
Windows Update for Business Deployment Service, which seemingly came and went with nary a ripple.
That s a shame, really.
Windows Update for Business (WUfB) Deployment Service is part of an overarching bid by Microsoft to drag IT, whether or not kicking and screaming, to the cloud and the cloud only. While many enterprises still rely on 2005 s Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to manage Windows updates and upgrades the nearly constant