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Windows as a Service: Planning Deployment

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Learn about the servicing channels, deployment and testing strategies, and servicing tools available for the new Windows 10 release strategy: Windows as a service.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
1. Understanding Windows as a Service
  • What is Waas?
  • Types of updates and timelines
  • The good and the bad
2. Choosing a Servicing Option
  • Servicing concepts, branches, and terms
  • Semi-annual channel
  • Long-term servicing channel
  • Windows Insider
  • Become a Windows Insider
3. Considerations for Deployment
  • Deployment rings
  • Testing strategies
  • Deployment strategies
  • Rollback strategy considerations
  • Delay and defer options
4. Deploying Windows as a Service
  • Windows update
  • Windows Update for Business
  • Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
  • SCCM
  • Limiting downtime
  • Evolution and where WaaS is headed
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Joli Ballew

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