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personal tasks with as little friction as possible. That flexibility has become so common in the modern
era that the phenomenon has a name, consumerization of IT. To users, the strategy is known by a
more colorful name: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).
Microsoft’s approach to the consumerization of IT is to try to satisfy users and IT pros. For users, the
goal is to provide familiar experiences on old and new devices. IT pros can choose from a corresponding
assortment of enterprise-grade solutions to manage and secure those devices when they access a
corporate network.
Greater control over updates and upgrades
From a network administrator’s perspective, perhaps the most important Windows 10 improvement is
Windows Update for Business, a feature that debuted in the Current Branch in version 1511.
Windows Update for Business (available only for Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions) uses Group
Policy settings to allow administrators to delay updates by up to four weeks, in intervals of one week.
The same settings support deferring upgrades in the Current Branch for Business (which are already a
few months behind their Current Branch release) by up to eight additional months, in one-month intervals.
Figure 1-9 shows these policy settings in the Local Group Policy Editor in Windows 10 Pro.
FIGURE 1-9 The Defer Upgrades And Updates Group Policy setting allows network administrators to delay updates
for up to four weeks and defer Current Branch for Business upgrades by up to eight months.
CHAPTER 1 An overview of Windows 10 11