[BESAdmin-Announcements] IBM BigFix Patch is releasing content to align Office 365 Fixlets with Microsoft’s changes

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

IBM BigFix Patch will be making changes to Office 365 content. This is in
alignment with Microsoft Office 365 changes that include a change of
channel names, as indicated in the following table.


New Name                                                       Old Name

Monthly Channel                                             Current Channel

Semi-annual Channel (Targeted)              First Release for Deferred
Channel

Semi-annual Channel                                   Deferred Channel



Microsoft announced that the name change begins on September 12, 2017.

BigFix will be updating existing tasks for users to set endpoints to the
new channel. The Fixlet IDs of existing content will remain unchanged.
Moving forward, users will receive updates as per usual and the change is
in name only.



What actions should I take?
You can use the tasks that BigFix Patch will be releasing to set your
endpoints to the new channel.



Other changes for Office 365
Aside from the name change, Microsoft is also reducing the update cadence
of Semi-annual Channel (Targeted) from 2-3 times a year to twice a year, in
March and September.

The support duration for the semi-annual feature update releases of Office
365 ProPlus will now be longer, at 18 months instead of 12 months, starting
from the initial release.

For more information about these changes, see http://bit.ly/2vFdHZa.



Reference:
To refer to the Microsoft article Overview of the upcoming changes to
Office 365 ProPlus update management , see, http://bit.ly/2vFdHZa.



Application Engineering Team

IBM BigFix
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