diff --git a/windows/deployment/windows-autopatch/overview/windows-autopatch-overview.md b/windows/deployment/windows-autopatch/overview/windows-autopatch-overview.md index 64554cdd1f..a071f7e68d 100644 --- a/windows/deployment/windows-autopatch/overview/windows-autopatch-overview.md +++ b/windows/deployment/windows-autopatch/overview/windows-autopatch-overview.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: What is Windows Autopatch? description: Details what the service is and shortcuts to articles. -ms.date: 07/11/2022 +ms.date: 07/11/2023 ms.prod: windows-client ms.technology: itpro-updates ms.topic: conceptual @@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ Windows Autopatch is a cloud service that automates Windows, Microsoft 365 Apps Rather than maintaining complex digital infrastructure, businesses want to focus on what makes them unique and successful. Windows Autopatch offers a solution to some of the challenges facing businesses and their people today: -- **Close the security gap**: By keeping software current, there are fewer vulnerabilities and threats to your devices. -- **Close the productivity gap**: By adopting features as they're made available, users get the latest tools to enhance creation and collaboration. -- **Optimize your IT admin resources**: By automating routine endpoint updates, IT pros have more time to create value. +- **Close the security gap**: Windows Autopatch keeps software current, there are fewer vulnerabilities and threats to your devices. +- **Close the productivity gap**: Windows Autopatch adopts features as they're made available. End users get the latest tools to amplify their collaboration and work. +- **Optimize your IT admin resources**: Windows Autopatch automates routine endpoint updates. IT pros have more time to create value. - **On-premises infrastructure**: Transitioning to the world of software as a service (SaaS) allows you to minimize your investment in on-premises hardware since updates are delivered from the cloud. -- **Onboard new services**: Windows Autopatch is scoped to make it easy to enroll and minimizes the time investment from your IT Admins to get started. -- **Minimize end user disruption**: By releasing in sequential deployment rings, and responding to reliability and compatibility signals, user disruptions due to updates are minimized. +- **Onboard new services**: Windows Autopatch makes it easy to enroll and minimizes the time required from your IT Admins to get started. +- **Minimize end user disruption**: Windows Autopatch releases updates in sequential deployment rings, and responding to reliability and compatibility signals, user disruptions due to updates are minimized. -Windows Autopatch helps you minimize the involvement of your scarce IT resources in the planning and deployment of updates for Windows, Microsoft 365 Apps, Microsoft Edge or Teams. By crafting careful rollout sequences and communicating with you throughout the release, your IT Admins can focus on other activities and tasks. +Windows Autopatch helps you minimize the involvement of your scarce IT resources in the planning and deployment of updates for Windows, Microsoft 365 Apps, Microsoft Edge or Teams. Windows Autopatch uses careful rollout sequences and communicates with you throughout the release, allowing your IT Admins can focus on other activities and tasks. ## Update management @@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ The goal of Windows Autopatch is to deliver software updates to registered devic | [Microsoft Edge](../operate/windows-autopatch-edge.md) | Windows Autopatch configures eligible devices to benefit from Microsoft Edge's progressive rollouts on the Stable channel. | | [Microsoft Teams](../operate/windows-autopatch-teams.md) | Windows Autopatch allows eligible devices to benefit from the standard automatic update channel. | -For each management area, there's a set of eligibility requirements that determine if the device will receive that specific update. An example of an eligibility criteria is that the device must have access to the required network endpoints for the Windows update. It's your responsibility to ensure that devices are meeting eligibility requirements for each management area. +For each management area, there's a set of eligibility requirements that determine if the device receives that specific update. An example of an eligibility criteria is that the device must have access to the required network endpoints for the Windows update. It's your responsibility to ensure that devices are meeting eligibility requirements for each management area. To determine if we're meeting our service level objectives, all eligible devices are labeled as either "Healthy" or "Unhealthy". Healthy devices are meeting the eligibility requirements for that management area and unhealthy devices aren't. If Windows Autopatch falls below any service level objective for a management area, an incident is raised. Then, we bring the service back into compliance. -While an update is in progress, it's monitored by Windows Autopatch. Depending on the criticality of the update, the service may decide to expedite the update. If we detect an issue during release, we may pause or roll back the update. Since each management area has a different monitoring and update control capabilities, you review the documentation for each area to familiarize yourself with the service. +Windows Autopatch monitors in-progress updates. Depending on the criticality of the update, the service may decide to expedite the update. If we detect an issue during release, we may pause or roll back the update. Since each management area has a different monitoring and update control capabilities, you review the documentation for each area to familiarize yourself with the service. ## Messages @@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ Microsoft remains committed to the security of your data and the [accessibility] | Area | Description | | ----- | ----- | -| Prepare | The following articles describe the mandatory steps to prepare and enroll your tenant into Windows Autopatch: | -| Deploy | Once you've enrolled your tenant, this section instructs you to: | -| Operate | This section includes the following information about your day-to-day life with the service: -| References | This section includes the following articles: | +| Prepare | The following articles describe the mandatory steps to prepare and enroll your tenant into Windows Autopatch: | +| Deploy | Once you've enrolled your tenant, this section instructs you to: | +| Operate | This section includes the following information about your day-to-day life with the service: +| References | This section includes the following articles: | ### Have feedback or would like to start a discussion?