intune update management

The intune update management tag covers guidance for Windows Autopatch hotpatch settings and their relationship to Windows quality update policies. Current discussion focuses on the default beginning in May 2026, including when tenants should allow hotpatch for ordinary eligible endpoints and when they should temporarily block it. Key considerations include documented update ownership, tolerance for baseline reboots, fallback-reboot handling, and unresolved prerequisites. Devices with exceptional operational or validation needs should receive an explicit quality update policy, while devices outside such a policy are affected by the tenant default. The guidance also emphasizes assigning an owner and defining evidence before removing a temporary block.