Deadline VS Maintenance Window

I have configured the device collection for maintenance at 12am-6am everyday.I recently deployed windows update as required and deadline at 5pm. My understanding is that after 5pm, the update will wait till the next maintenance windows before it's installed.
However, the updates keeps installing at 5pm or whatever deadline i configure.
Am i having a wrong assumption or is my SCCM not configured correctly?

That is proper assumption only if under User Experience tab on software deployment you have
not selected any check boxes under Deadline behavior.

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    If a client is in several collections and a few have maintenance windows is it correct that any deployments targeted to a collection the client is a member of will only run within the earliest maintenance window available regardless of deadline?
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    Maintenance Windows are not relative to deployments in way and the collection a deployment is applicable to is irrelevant.
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  • Deadline, Business Hours vs. Maintenance Windows

    I read the blog about Business Hours vs. Maintenance Windows, but I still have two questions
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  • Commit changes at deadline or during a maintenance window (requires restarts)?

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  • SCCM 2012 R2 - Maintenance Windows + Installation deadline ASAP + Deadline Randomization

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  • Maintenance Windows and Installation Deadline

    I know this has been discussed many times in the past, but I wanted to clarify in my mind what I think happens.
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  • Maintenance Window not honoured?

    Hi Folks,
    The more I read through these forums on how the Maintenance Window works the more I feel my deployment was set-up correctly. However, I had a number of workstations unexpectedly install Win7 SP1 and restart during business hours (which are defined as
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    Business hours and maintenance windows are two different things. Business hours will not prevent the installation from happening when the deadline is reached. For a very good read about this see:
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  • Maintenance Window Question

    Hello Experts,
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    CollectionA---> has a MW set between 6PM - 6AM ( Monday - Sunday) ( which is set to ->This Schedule Applies to all deployments)
    CollectionA---> has another MW 8PM-10PM ( Sat-Sunday) ( which is set to ->This schedule applies to Software deployments)
    Since there is an overlap, what would happen when Software updates are pushed, Will it run on Sat or sun at 8PM or at 6PM.
    Thank you.

    Hi,
    It depends on the Deadline you set for the updates to install, as you have a maintenance windows that allows all deployments each night, software updates will run then. If you schedule them to start at saturday morning it will start at 6 PM SAT as that
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  • Multiple Deployments During Single Maintenance Window

    I have a maintenance window that runs from 10PM to 4AM daily. I have three deployments with deadlines during that time. I'm also using the default restart times of 90 minutes and then 15. One of them runs at 11PM, the next at 1AM, and the last at 3AM. Two
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    I'm not 100% sure, but I think it will need the restart first.

  • SCCM 2012 R2 - Maintenance Windows - a few questions

    Let's say I configure a maintenance windows (MW) for the 2nd saturday of every month from 6p-10p and I have 100 servers in this maintenance window,
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    Let's say I configure a maintenance windows (MW) for the 2nd saturday of every month from 6p-10p and I have 100 servers in this maintenance window,
    are they all going to try and patch and reboot at the same time?
    (Assuming they are all online)
    This brings up concerns when trying to plan maintenance windows for our servers - especially when we are 80%+ virtualized. I can't find anything that states the sequence of events that happen when a machine goes to install patches based on a MW.
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    We currently use WSUS (working on migrating to SCCM) and in WSUS we have a ton of groups based on the hour so we spread out the machines being patched. I am trying to avoid having so many different options and times and instead just using MWs.
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  • Maintenance Windows - Best Practices

    One of the features of SCCM I've looked forward to the most are Maintenance Windows. The Best Practice Recommendations (in the Help File) suggests that:
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    I can't tell you what to do. However, trying to answer your previous post, I said you could do that. But if you tell the advert/deployment to ignore maintenance windows, then you are not adhering to them at all, and you may get deployments outside the time frame you intended.
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  • SCCM fails to deploy Patches to client with in the maintenance windows.

    Hi,
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    I will try to keep it to the point.
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