I’m not in IT, I’m an SE, but I do wonder if their system automatically approves minor updates but requires manual intervention to approve major updates?
Or maybe it provides the functionality for them to turn off the automatic approval if they’ve done testing while the update is in beta and discovered issues that need to be addressed?
Or maybe it’s just a crufty relic of a previous IT regime when they actually did have to manually update everything, but disabling that specific checkbox would cause downstream issues they hadn’t considered. Or it’s an edict of the management that they have approvals enabled, but they don’t care whether it’s automated or not.
In my experience all enterprise technology policy is basically just three Windows scheduled tasks in a trench coat, so I also wouldn’t be surprised if it’s all of the above.
I’m not in IT, I’m an SE, but I do wonder if their system automatically approves minor updates but requires manual intervention to approve major updates?
Or maybe it provides the functionality for them to turn off the automatic approval if they’ve done testing while the update is in beta and discovered issues that need to be addressed?
Or maybe it’s just a crufty relic of a previous IT regime when they actually did have to manually update everything, but disabling that specific checkbox would cause downstream issues they hadn’t considered. Or it’s an edict of the management that they have approvals enabled, but they don’t care whether it’s automated or not.
In my experience all enterprise technology policy is basically just three Windows scheduled tasks in a trench coat, so I also wouldn’t be surprised if it’s all of the above.