Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Microsoft: Use deadline policies and a 'cloud cadence mindset' for faster patching The most important Windows policies enterprises can use to speed up Windows servicing involve deadline configurations. Microsoft last week said the most important Windows policies enterprises can set to speed up Windows servicing are those configuring deadlines. "Setting Compliance Deadlines is the most important policy that every enterprise who cares about achieving reliable update velocity should set," Redmond said in the recently-published "Optimising Windows 10 update adoption" document. The document is included in this download, "Windows 10 Update Baseline as a separate PDF.