Mass rollout for Windows

[lordboboinsd]

I am new to BigFix and am tasked with creating an open-ended task for updating Windows on new computers. These are the tasks presented to me and I could use some help.

Create open ended actions which includes all patches available for the OS
One action for each regular Baseline Site with relevance criteria matching that site
The actions should reboot on failure
The actions should only be relevant to systems which are a member of a specific group
The actions should continue to reapply themselves when they become relevant

Create a new Site called “New Computer Patching Rollup” (suggestions for better names are welcome)
Manual subscription only
Should be globally available

[jgstew]

This part sounds odd:

• actions should reboot on failure

I would be careful about not automatically rebooting a system when a user is logged on.

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