Windows Autopatch is improving the existing Tenant management experience within our portal. The Tenant management blade is used to alert IT admins of any actions that are required to maintain overall service health.

We are introducing the ability to alert you on:

We are also introducing the ability to mark the Windows Autopatch section of your tenant as “inactive” if there are any actions that need to be taken.

This feature is available beginning May 2023.

To know if action is required, visit the Tenant management blade via:

If you have no actions that need to be taken, there is no effect on your tenant. However, if the service has identified actions for you to take, you must act via the Tenant management blade. The following actions are critical and required to continue using the service:

The Windows Autopatch sections of your tenant will only be marked as “inactive” if one of the above actions are required. When the Windows Autopatch section of your tenant is “inactive”, Windows Autopatch will no longer manage the corresponding sections of your tenant or devices assigned to its management. It will also not perform the non-interactive actions used to run the service. Updates will continue to operate as configured at the time of the Windows Autopatch section of your tenant being marked “inactive” – this means that if the policies and configurations that Windows Autopatch set as part of the service were left intact, your devices will continue to receive the necessary updates. Finally, you’ll have read-only access to most of the Windows Autopatch portal, and only the following administration functions will be accessible:

If you wish to continue using the service, you must resolve all actions as soon as possible. Once resolved, the Windows Autopatch section of your tenant will go back to an active state after a few hours. For detailed information, see Windows Autopatch tenant actions.

Once an action is shown, you must act immediately to avoid interruption with the Windows Autopatch service.