Prepare devices for successful updates with Windows Autopatch update readiness

Enhance your organization’s Windows update reliability with Windows Autopatch update readiness. Designed to help IT teams proactively prepare devices for upcoming Windows updates, update readiness surfaces risks and blockers before updates are deployed, reducing failures, downtime, and reactive troubleshooting. Built into Windows Autopatch, it provides actionable insights that help ensure that devices are in a healthy, update-ready state across your fleet.

With update readiness insights, you gain early visibility into configuration gaps, policy conflicts, and device conditions that commonly prevent updates from successful installation. This shifts update management from a reactive model to a proactive, insight-driven approach helping keep devices secure, compliant, and productive.

When will this happen

Windows Autopatch update readiness is available to those using Windows Autopatch and is included as part of your existing Windows Autopatch experience. Capabilities light up within the Windows Autopatch blade in the Microsoft Intune admin portal starting March 2, 2026.

How this will affect your organization

Windows Autopatch update readiness helps IT teams identify and address update blockers ahead of time, improving update success rates and fleet resilience. Key benefits include:

• Early detection of issues that could block quality or feature updates
• Improved visibility into device readiness and update health
• Reduced manual troubleshooting and post-deployment firefighting
• Stronger security posture through timely and reliable updates

What you need to do to prepare

If you already use Windows Autopatch, no additional action is required to access this feature. Review update readiness insights and address any identified readiness risks prior to deploying updates. To access these reports and tools:

1. Go to the Microsoft Intune admin center.
2. Select Devices > Windows updates.
3. Depending on the insights you need:
4. Select Feature updates or Quality updates, then a specific update to access update readiness checker.
5. Select Feature updates or Quality updates > Alerts and remediations. Select Feature updates > Devices managed for feature updates, then a required target release to see device update journey.
6. Select Overview > Autopatch Management Report.

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