Allow wildcards or regex in autoupdate update.config definition

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What is a one sentence summary of your feature request?

Allow wildcards or regex in autoupdate update.config definition

Please describe your idea in detail. What is your problem, why do you feel this idea is the best solution, etc.

In update.config, the configuration file for the automatic update mechanism for on prem installs, you can define rings. In each ring, a tag allows you to define computers by computer name.
I’d like to set my file up to automatically define the groups by allowing wildcards. Then I can have one ring:
MyName-*0
Which would match any computer with the final character a zero, then the next ring:
MyName-*1
…
MyName-*4
for the next ring, and a final ring to do the rest.
Or even regular expressions! But that’s not really needed, this way it would automatically assign 10% of computers (at more-or-less random) to the first group, then 40% to the next, and the remaining 50% to the next. Assuming you have a property or serial number encoded in your computer names.

Oh, bonus second request: Could you document all the tags in your documentation? The tag isn’t defined in the documentation at all, just used in examples.

How do you currently solve the challenges you have by not having this feature?

Manually using our patching solution to do the first two rings. Bleh.

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Hey hey.. First, glad you like the feature in general… you’re using it the way I want, which I good.

For parameters .. those are documented here: CSE Autoupdate Update.Config file Usage and Parameters (before CSE 2725) | Netwrix Product Documentation

As for the Wildcards, we talked about it internally, and we think it’s doable. Regex is likely harder and could be overly complicated for most admins. If we did Wildcards, would that be enough ?

Let me know.

-Jeremy Moskowitz, EPM Founder

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Yes, I think it is probably enough for most people. I assume most people use either a property or serial number or maybe the Intune randomized name, and any of those would work with wildcards.

Thanks for the update on the documentation, I didn’t see that article.