COVID19 has forced a drastic increase of working from home PCs.
Whether your strategy is VPN or internet those Windows PCs still need patching and not to mention Feature updates.
If you're currently patching from Altiris then this increase is definitely going to have an impact on your VPN connections and your CEM servers and infrastructure.
I was curious to see what this community thought about policies that would identify the work from home PCs and direct them to download patches directly from Microsoft on their internet connections and if it applies to you to identify those on VPN and suspend as much downloading as possible until the machine returns to the office or internet.
I'm about to go looking for Altiris documentation to see how to configure direct patching from Microsoft while still patch managed by Altiris.
If anyone has any docs to share please do so.
Is anyone else considering an internet patching strategy? Until now we were more than comfortable patching the very few PCs on the internet from CEM but with the amount we have now we're wondering if there was a better way.