Optimizing Patch Management for Large Companies – Saving Millions on Reboots and Downtime

This concerns user clients (W11), some companies no longer use SCCM. But other solutions that do not require you to be on prem (such as Intune, which also has SCCM integration). But we also did this 10 years ago with various RMM solutions.

And from experience I can say that reboots are a very special ‘science’, because it is not all that simple. Because function So you have a lot of different patch/reboot windows for different groups. That is of course already a huge management job, but then you notice that machines in all those tuned windows are not rebooted, no matter how well you try to educate your users. As an IT worker you can of course bluntly say this is the window, you just have to deal with it, you just dance to my tune! But as an IT professional you are not there to support yourself, but to support the business.

Let’s take a large multinational, 200,000 employees, 3 minutes per reboot, 1x per month (Windows 11), costs for the boss €50/hour. 200,000×3/60x12x€50=€6 million per year. Or €30/user/year.

If MS can fix that this should be done less or not at all without additional costs from the company side, yes please!

Never rebooting is indeed not useful, with fixed workstations I usually did wake-on-lan at night, patch, reboot and then switch off. In some cases I even turned off fixed workstations after a certain time (e.g. 7:00 PM if they were open until 6:00 PM). But with so many laptops nowadays, things haven’t become any easier.

2024-02-25 11:03:47
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