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Period Of Time For Which All Pending Deployments With Deadline In This Time
Will Also Be Installed
Specifies the period for the previous setting. When you set
the previous setting to Yes, you can specify a period. Required updates within the
specified period deploy when another update reaches its deadline. The default setting
is one hour.
Maintenance windows, shown in Figure 3-10, enable you to prevent systems from reboot-
ing during critical times. For example, deploying updates in the middle of the workday would
most likely be disruptive to your users, so you can configure a maintenance window so that
update deployment would occur only after 4:00 P.M. or 5:00 P.M.
FIGURE 3-10
Maintenance Windows tab
Use maintenance windows to control when:
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Required software deployments can run.
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Software updates will deploy.
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Compliance settings deployments and evaluations can run.
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Operating system deployments can occur.
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Task sequence deployments can run.
By specifying available windows for these tasks to run, you can prevent unnecessary inter-
ruptions for users. Maintenance windows only apply to when deployments are allowed to run.
You can schedule the deployments to download and run locally so that downloads can occur
before the maintenance window.
You configure maintenance windows in the properties of a device collection on the
Maintenance Windows tab. You can configure multiple windows on a collection, and a device
can be in multiple collections that have scheduled maintenance windows. Each maintenance
