I always wait a few weeks to see if anyone else has issue. I always manually update everything in batches to make sure it doesn’t take down the entire network just in case something goes wrong.
I really enjoyed this video! I’ve recently decided to start an MSP, and this update from Ubiquiti is exactly what I was looking for. For my home network, I usually schedule updates at 3 AM on Sundays, but as I dive deeper into understanding MSPs and business needs, it's clear that clients won’t appreciate everything being updated all at once, especially without prior notice-even with a fixed schedule. This change will be a big help in ensuring smoother, more tailored updates.
I'm experimenting with having Home Assistant automations run update scripts based on conditions. For example, I delay updating plex when it's in use. The same idea could be applied for switches that are in use, at least in theory.
Yeah. I once had a client site that had Unifi Access points and had auto update turned on. One day I got a call that peoples phone weren't able to connect to the wifi and I traced it back to the phone being pinned to one access point and not handing off properly. I couldn't work out why it was happening until I logged into the controller and found it had updated access points firmware and that has somehow moved all the configurations to pin to one access point. So I rolled back the firmware (non trivial at the time) and tested it on one access point first. That worked, and so I rolled the rollback to all of them to get the thing back to the working state it had been for the last 6 months. I then turned off automatic updates and only applied them when I was scheduled to be on site to make sure things were functional. I have never used Unifi switches or endpoint stuff, and so would be employing that same policy if I had to. Unless you have a recover strategy where you can roll back any changes if they break, you should never auto apply stuff. That is true for networking hardware, servers, security systems etc.
