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Allow configuration of availability and deadline for assignments
Thanks for the suggestion; it's one we knew we would get, and we think we understand better now than we did earlier. We introduced rings for managing a safe rollout, but by exclusively using ASAP deployment, there's two main problems:
First, you are unable to control the time of day when the app installs. As Intune still lacks maintenance windows this is a problem for certain use cases (ex. labs, manufacturing, kiosks)
Second, without the ability to define a period of availability devices may attempt to download the content within a small timeframe. If deployed as available with a future deadline, the downloads can be spread out in a semi-randomized way.
We believe we have a workable design for this feature but must first complete some internal refactoring. So no ETA to share, but it's on the backlog's shortlist.
i would like to ability to be able to see future deployments the day that the app is published as you can see in the publisher version. We rely on being able to pull deployment data on new packages that are getting created so we can share with our end users when to expect update deadlines to hit. Cloud publishes the deployment per app when the deadline hits which gives you no time to prepare for the update coming and communicate it out to end users to expect an update of "x" app.
We want to be able to phase out new apps without pushing them to everyone first before the rings are honored. If security comes to me to update an app, I have to push the update out to everyone without piloting. Being able to configure availability dates and groups removes this restriction and also the requirement to have the time between update rings be more than the sync schedule.
This feature would be really nice to have as it allows sending out, for example, a new required base app but in waves instead of everything at once. The only option right now is managing this through Intune but it doesn't feel great since it will be confusing when looking at the app in PMPC Cloud Portal.
Missing this feature in PMPC!
We are desperately looking for this feature as it let users work without interruptions and admin can target the non prime times for the organization.
As my deadline is nearing to be 100% cloud, curious if this idea is or will be considered in the near future?
I'd like to move from on-prem publisher to PmPC cloud, but until I can adjust when apps and updates are deployed I can't. Currently, I have my sync setup at 10 p.m. daily. If an app is set as available, it is immediately deployed to the company portal. Updates are packaged but not deployed to users until +2 days at 7 a.m. for most, although I do have a few apps that require different deployment times.
We have 800+ university classroom computers, and updates need to install outside of classroom hours of M-F 8am - 10pm.
We're working on adding a separate update ring sync schedule which would allow you do e.g. do app creations on a weekly basis, but ring advancement on a daily basis. That should address the limitation outlined by Michael and we'll mark this as shipped once we do.
This would allow some flexibly for those who want to 'Sync Weekly' but have assignments start Mid week.
Can currently do this with Update Rings (Can't create an assignmetn if you don't sync, I get it), so this would be the next best option.
Now that we have an actual Update Rings feature in PMPC Cloud, we'd love to hear what other scenario this feature would solve for you!
Replicating the "update ring" capability available in the Publisher is a must.
If you can improve it, even better!