US 12,032,942 B2
Targeted release updates for cloud service deployments
Nidhi Verma, Bellevue, WA (US); Sandhya Shahdeo, Redmond, WA (US); and Rahul Nigam, Bothell, WA (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/899,847.
Prior Publication US 2024/0069886 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 8/65 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 8/65 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data processing system comprising:
a processor; and
a machine-readable medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
determining a first category of targeted release customers associated with a current stage of a deployment plan for deploying an update to customers of a cloud-based service;
providing a first indication to each customer of a set of first customers associated with the first category of the targeted release customers that an update is available for users associated with the customer of the set of first customers;
deploying the update to a first subset of users associated with each customer of the set of first customers;
receiving a second indication from each customer of the set of first customers that a set of first pre-deployment requirements (PDRs) associated with each customer of the set of first customers have been completed for the update; and
deploying the update to a second subset of the users associated with each customer of the set of first customers responsive to receiving the second indication from each customer of the set of first customers, wherein the second subset of the users associated with each customer of the set of first customers comprises a remainder of the users associated with the customer of the set of first customers not included in the first subset of the users associated with each customer of the set of first customers.