Managing updates at scale often involves tracking individual releases, coordinating timing across teams, and minimizing disruption to critical workflows. Without structured controls, updates can be applied inconsistently, arriving too early for some users, too late for others, or outside planned maintenance windows.
We recently introduced scheduled updates to help address these challenges by giving admins a structured, policy-based way to manage update delivery. Instead of tracking individual installs, you can define schedules that determine which updates are installed, for which users, and when – helping you focus more on your business and less on managing updates.
Balancing predictability with flexibility
Scheduled updates use policies to tailor update schedules for different teams or products. For example, early adopters can receive updates first for evaluation, while production teams follow a later and more stable cadence. You can also see which updates are needed based on the products users have installed, helping reduce time spent identifying the right updates.
Updates are installed based on local device time to help minimize disruption for global teams. If a device is unavailable during the scheduled window, the update is retried automatically. Together, these controls help provide greater confidence in update timing while maintaining flexibility and visibility for real world conditions.
What scheduled updates help you do
Whether you manage a single team or a large, distributed environment, scheduled updates help support a more consistent and manageable update strategy:
- Centralize update management
Define products, versions, users, and schedules in one place, reducing the need to track individual updates manually.
- Target deployments with precision
Use policy-based schedules to control which groups receive updates and when, supporting staged rollouts and early testing.
- Plan with confidence
Align update schedules with maintenance windows and organizational routines to help reduce unexpected disruption.
- Support version consistency
Help ensure users stay on intended versions by coordinating deployments and preventing early installs. For users that need a more stable environment, you can disable updates independent of the broader team.
Get started with a more predictable update experience
By centralizing update management, scheduled updates make it easier to keep environments consistent and up to date. You gain greater control and more predictable update timing, while spending less ongoing effort coordinating installations and helping ensure teams remain on versions that work best for them.
Explore scheduled updates in the products & services section of your Autodesk account today.
