OS updates

Available in Fleet Premium

In Fleet you can enforce OS updates on your macOS and Windows hosts remotely.

Enforce OS updates

You can enforce OS updates using the Fleet UI, Fleet API, or Fleet's GitOps workflow.

Fleet UI:

Head to the Controls > OS updates tab.
To enforce OS updates for macOS, select macOS and set a Minimum version and Deadline.
For Windows, select Windows and set a Deadline and Grace period.

Fleet API: API documentation is here.

End users are encouraged to update macOS (via Nudge).

Nudge window

End users are encouraged to update Windows via the native Windows dialog.

	Before deadline	Past deadline
End user can defer automatic restart	✅	❌

If an end user was on vacation when the deadline passed, the end user is given a grace period (configured) before the host automatically restarts.

Fleet enforces OS updates for quality and feature updates. Read more about the types of Windows OS updates in the Microsoft documentation here.

If you notice something we've missed or could be improved on, please follow this link and submit a pull request to the Fleet repo.