How to do phased deployments in a cloud native world?
Back in the days when we had SCCM, we could easily setup phased deployments. In a cloud native world these controls are missing, but we can create phased deployments based (dynamic) groups. In this blog post I will show you how to set it up and use it. Groups First of we need to create groups that contains the devices for each phase. You can of course fill those groups manually, but in larger environments Dynamic Groups will be a better option. We will use the first character of the DeviceId in our dynamic query to select the devices per group. Keep in mind that the DeviceId is containing hexadecimal characters, so that means 16 options (0 till F) per character. How big you want to make the groups is up to you, but I have chosen for a group for each first character, so 16 groups. With 16 group you have around 6.25% of your devices per group. Of course this is a bit depending on the size of the environment, for 60K+ clients environment the distribution look...