AutoMatic Deployment Rules for Updates

[legion99]

We are in an SCCM 2012 Windows 7 environment and would like to use Automatic Deployment Rules to deploy updates. I have worked out a strategy of using the Custom Severity to allow us to manually choose which updates we want to apply as well as creating multiple rules for multiple locations to spread out the distribution throughout our environment. They have been tested and work correctly.

 

However our SCCM co-administrator is demonstrating what is in my opinion an extreme over abundance of caution regarding these rules and does not want them applied in our environment.

 

The two concerns expressed are:

 

-When we do the sync with Microsoft something will go wrong and the wrong updates will be applied to the wrong computers (I can't possibly see this happening)

 

-There will be issues when we eventually upgrade to R2. (I have not been able to find any evidence that this would happen)

 

Has anyone experienced issues with ADR bad enough to not use it?

 

 

Can someone help me assure my co-administrator and manager that this level of caution is not necessary?

[legion99]

Also Branchecache doesn't work for updates.

[GarthMJ]

Also Branchecache doesn't work for updates.

err. yes it does...

[GarthMJ]

The original question was about risk. What risk is there is using ADR? It makes sense to us to use ADR to deploy updates at night when it won't affect users bandwidth, not sure why that doesn't make sense to you but that's not the question. As I said we don't have BIT's throttling, if it were up to me we would but we don't. We only have one DP, again not my decision. I'm trying to work with what we have.

 

All I will say is test it.. as a consultant this is not what I would recommend. With 8000 computers, it is recommend to have at least two DPs.

[legion99]

Branchecache does not work for updates on the version of SCCM that I have stated we have, like I said we haven't updated yet.

 

Also as I have stated I am not looking for a recommendation on what you think we need to do in our environment. You don't know our environment or why we have things setup the way we do. And our environment has been in place for 2 years we're not changing it.

 

Again the question is about the risks involved in using ADR's please only answer the question asked.