Getting started with deployments and deployment plans for an automated staged rollout
This week is all about deployments and deployment plans. Deployments and deployment plans have been introduced recently to provide IT administrators with the ability to create an automated staged rollout. An experience that is actually pretty similar to using deployment rings for deploying software updates. Deployments enable IT administrators to create a staged rollout for applications and policies. That staged rollout contains deployment rings (group assignments) that automatically progress based on specific date and time criteria. Those deployment rings create that similar automated deployment experience as already provided by the software updates rings. Just like that experience, the IT administrators also gets the controls to pause, resume, cancel, and delete the deployment. On top of that, deployment plans provide the IT administrators with the ability …