Hotpatch updates for Windows 11, version 24H2 are now generally available. Read the announcement for more details.
Today we announce the public preview of hotpatch updates for Windows 11 Enterp...
Updated Apr 08, 2025
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Ok Microsoft, make sure everyone is on the same page before you release an article and get everyone existed. Autopatch and A3/A5 should not be listed in the same article unless there's an announcement at Ignite scheduled this week that Autopatch will FINALLY be supported for education.
Yeah, they really need to fix that. They say it is supported, but none of our A3\A5 users and computers could enroll into the program when we tried it out. Only the E3\E5 users worked properly... We rolled back to normal policies just to not have to manage two different methods to publish updates at the same time, because of the administrative headache that often comes with that.
And based on their documentation, A3\A5 users don't share feature parity with E3\E5 in Autopatch either, so I don't know if we would have used it either way, as we would have to micromanage all the non-supported features separately, but ONLY for A3\A5-users... I don't know why Microsoft feels the need to limit the features for Autopatch on A3\A5-licenses, as Enterprise and Education-versions of Windows have always shared 99.9% feature parity.
And A3\A5 is where this feature would have shined in my opinion, as educators really don't want any downtime in their classrooms, believe me...