Best practice deploying additional updates

Hello what is the best practice concerning monthy windows updates. We are currently adding additional windows updates to the existing 1 package and updating the content on the DP's. However this seems to work with inconsistant results.
DPs are not finalising content .
Other places I have worked we would create a seperate package each month for additional updates and never had an issue. Any thoughts?
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The documented best practices are all related to the maximum number of patches that are part of one deployment. That number should not pas the 1000,
Remember this is a hard limit of 1000 updates per Software Update Group (not deployment package). It's quite legitimate to use a single deployment package.
I usually create static historical Software Updates Groups at a point in time (eg November 2014). In this case it is not possible to have a single SUG for all products (Windows 7 has over 600 updates for example). You have to split them. I deploy these
updates (to pilot and production) and leave the deployments in place. Then I create an ADR which creates a new SUG each month and deploy (to pilot and production).
You can use a single deployment package for all the above.
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