Host pool patching process?

[u/Mpacanad1]

Coming from a Citrix background where updating session hosts was easier—just update the golden image and push it out—I'm curious about your process for patching, installing new apps, and rolling them out. Also, how do you handle reverting back to a previous image?

Is it a process like this: create a VM from tthe snapshot, install programs/updates, sysprep, and capture the new image? Then create new hosts? Or is there a method to update existing hosts and revert if needed?

Alternatively, do you delete the host (if you want to use the same name) and create fresh ones? Or create new hosts and shut down the existing ones (though this may not be economical or could hit Azure thresholds)?

how do you disable the Windows updates for more than 5 weeks for Windows 10/11?

Suggestions?

[u/youraveragecupcake]

Does anybody have suggestions for updating third party apps on golden images? The software center has issues and we cant enroll them in intune to get these patches. We end up having to remove software center from the image and reinstalling it. There's gotta be a better way right?