Windows Patch Maintenance Windows

Hello

Can BigFix leverage Active Directory groups for maintenance windows? Look at the Maintenance Windows Dashboard, I didn’t see this capability. Maybe I missed it.

Might this work?

When you use the Maintenance Window Dashboard, it creates a task. Before saving that task, go to the relevance tab and change the condition to ‘Computers which match the condition below’… then in drop down select 'Active Directory Path contains…

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Or… save the task as is, and when you deploy it, select dynamically target by property and choose By Active Directory…

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i always like making dynamic groups based on AD properties and then building an action against that group. then when you deploy the window, it’s always hitting what is in that group.

the above will work when targeting against AD BUT I find it harder to report against what is going on with that group.