Grace Period

Question

_{Friday, May 5, 2017 1:43 PM}

Hi, I wanted to know if the grace period that was added a few months ago also applies to Software Updates?

If not, is there any way to configure the same kind of behavoir?

Here's a description and link of what I'm refering to.

To configure the grace period, take the following actions:+

• On the Computer Agent page of client settings, configure the new property Grace period for enforcement after deployment deadline (hours) with a value between 1 and 120 hours.
• On the Scheduling page in a new required application deployment, or in the properties of an existing deployment, select the box Delay enforcement of this deployment according to user preferences, up to the grace period defined in client settings. The enforcement grace period is used by all deployments that have this box selected and are targeted to devices to which you also deployed the client setting.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/apps/deploy-use/deploy-applications

Thks in advance and don't hesitate if you have any questions.

Steph

All replies (3)

_{Friday, May 5, 2017 2:29 PM}

To my knowledge, this applies to *all* deployments.

Does the checkbox noted in the second bullet above appear on your software update deployments in the scheduling tab (I don't have easy access to a console atm)? If so, then it clearly does.

Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

_{Friday, May 5, 2017 4:03 PM}

Yes the checkbox also appears when you want to deploy an SU group.

Wasn't sure it did. Thks

_{Sunday, June 11, 2017 4:15 AM}

Hi,

    It also can be found in the docs here:

/en-us/sccm/core/clients/deploy/about-client-settings#computer-agent

" ** Grace period for enforcement after deployment deadline (hours)**
*In some cases, you might want to give users more time to install required application deployments or software updates beyond any deadlines you configured. This might typically be required when a computer has been turned off for an extended period of time and needs to install a large number of application or update deployments. For example, if a user has just returned from vacation, they might have to wait for a long while as overdue application deployments are installed. To help solve this problem, you can define an enforcement grace period by deploying Configuration Manager client settings to a collection. *"

Regards,

Jimmy

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