We have a smaller environment and some flexibility on our update schedule. There is an MDM profile we push out with a software update payload where everything is checked except “Restrict software updates to administrator users only”. It has been like this for years and usually it means after a few weeks some folks have updated and others need a little reminder. The recent 15.5 to 15.6 update appears to be different for us. This time it pushed out to everyone on either 8/5 or 8/6. Has anyone noticed a change in how the built-in software update runs in Sequoia with that kind of set it and forget it MDM payload?
There are only 10 computers running Sequoia in our environment with another few dozen running a mixture of Sonoma and Ventura, so it might be sampling/anecdotal. The other releases are in their usual state of lag two weeks after the update and all of them are using the same payload.
This all came to attention because the one Sequoia user who hadn’t updated reached out complaining about the “scheduled” update quitting all their applications every night and then getting stuck when it hit something like Office with unsaved changes or an IDE that doesn’t want to close. This is expected for something like a scheduled update, but not something anyone has ever reported before 15.6. Client screenshots and Update payload are attached. Please reply if you are seeing this.
