"Update all" button on Devices page
I believe there should be a button within the navbar of the Devices tab that once selecting specific machines, allows you to update all patches on those machines, rather than doing a report, manually clicking all unnecessary machines or doing it patch by patch on the Patch Management page.
Kajay Woods
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Eric Denholtz
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Agreed. Not a good idea. It will just confuse junior admins and techs as well because it won't work half the time. Patch Orchestration takes time and planning, unfortunately. Maybe one day it won't. But that's more of an OS thing. Hot patching is in GA on certain Windows editions. Maybe it will come and things like this could be realistic. It isn't now.
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Kajay Woods
commented
The idea is to streamline updates for selected devices only, with confirmation steps and respect for existing patch approval policies. It’s about reducing manual work, not removing safeguards—risky systems can be excluded or require extra approval before updates.
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PureTech
commented
That's a very bad idea imo. It opens up a door to all kind of unwanted updates by mistake.
Making it harder to use is actually better in this case, less options for mistakes (just think about upgrading the SQL version of a critical, version-controled DB)