Autodesk Scheduled Updates

Many administrators have requested easier deployments to update software on users’ machines. Now this functionality is here, granting us the ability to schedule specific product updates on users’ machines – or disabling some products from showing updates available.

First, head to the management portal. We can either assign individual users or groups to policies – Autodesk recommend groups to easily manage the workflow. You’ll find the Scheduled Updates under Products and Services.

Select the team you wish this to take effect in and press Create Policy, selecting the group(s) or user(s) you with to include. Should you wish, you can set the policy as default for all users in the team.

From here, we can amend how often and which products, including specific yearly version, should be updated. By default, the recommended setting is monthly, depending on your environment you can change this to weekly or quarterly.

We can also toggle the ability to hide specific updates such as Vault, preventing users from installing incompatible updates. Note, you’ll need to setup a new policy if you wish to use both policies.

Upon opening a schedule, you’ll be shown any pending updates and when they’ll be installed. You can also view the history or any held updated and edit the policy as required.

Once the schedule has been created, we need to download the latest version of Autodesk Access: Autodesk Access | Formerly Autodesk Desktop App | Autodesk

Upon launching Access, users can view the schedule, alongside any pending updates. The machine will need to be on and signed in during the time set to install any pending updates – note that any changes can take 24 hours to reflect.