Deploying one software update group to multiple collections.

Good Afternoon,
We are in the process of rolling out Windows updates to our server environment. This will be the first rollout on a mass scale. Previously, we have rolled out to about 4 collections to test.
In a prior life, I managed deploying Windows updates using SCCM 2007. You were able to target to a deployment to a parent collection and select the option to deploy to sub-collections.
With CM2012, we have a parent folder and our collections live inside of this folder. My question is this, how can deploy my software update group without having to create a deployment targeted to each individual collections. Our structure looks
like this
Parent Folder (Production)
Subfolder (Monthly)
Monthly Collections
We have 43 monthly collections for production. I would prefer to not have to create 43 different deployments. Can you target the parent folder and include the collections? I read another article where CM2012 did away with the use SubCollections,
but I have not been able to verify that.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thank You
Brian Dougherty

You can still do something similar as with a top collection in CM07. In CM12 you can use the include collection. So that would mean that one collection can include multiple collections, which allows you to target only one collections. Those separate collections
can then be used for different maintenance windows (or whatever you want to do with it).
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<AutoDeploymentRule xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
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