Update Deployment tool

Jan_Tajo_Fittkau

I know there is the Update deployment tool from Coretech, but it has several issues and I dont see that it is improved. The following features I am missing:

• Define the Name you want to use for the deployment (Coretech takes the current month/year, which makes it problematic to use it when you have to do several month of patches)
• If it was be possible to setup a roll-out plan, e.g.
  - Define the start of the pilot, have the deadlines for all other environments predefined from. (e.g. Pilot 5/18/2016, Pre-Production Pilot-Date + [next Monday], Production PreProd-Date + [next Thursday] ... or use + X days .. but we use the logic before) 
• Use the concept of "Update-Rings" that you can define and assign deployment templates to. So you can have multiple templates that are covered by the previously mentioned timing rules.

Basically the idea is regardless if its the monthly updates, or a special out of order patch you can just define the name, the pilot start and with one click you have all things defined.

wally_mead

Thanks Jan. We are looking at what additional apps that we want to create in the Configuration Manager space, and update management has been a recurring theme :-) Hope that we can get something done here.