A Smarter Change Management Approach: Streamline Your Updates

March 21, 2025

Change management is a crucial but challenging process for IT Teams, especially when deploying app updates, Microsoft patches, or infrastructure upgrades across an enterprise. A structured approach ensures stability, minimizes business disruptions, and reduces overall risk.   

Before Login Enterprise: Manual Testing and Subjective Feedback 

Before implementing Login Enterprise, many customers follow a traditional change management process:  

• New app installs and updates are tested in pre-production for basic functionality  

• Microsoft patches are deployed through a ring-based deployment strategy without prior comprehensive tests  

• Application owners may perform compatibility testing  

• If an issue arises during the deployment, the process is paused while the failure is investigated  

While this strategy adds a buffer between the business and the development of new changes, it heavily relies on manual testing efforts. While new app installs are tested in pre-production for basic functionality, it’s possible that not every critical workflow has been tested. Similarly, while App Owners are responsible for alerting IT of any issues seen during initial deployments, their testing is inconsistent, and subjective results may vary.  

This approach certainly allows for a staged rollout but lacks a proactive method for identifying issues before deployment, leading to unpredictable failures and prolonged troubleshooting efforts.  

Automated Change Management with Login Enterprise 

Organizations that have adopted Login Enterprise employ a more proactive strategy. The ability to simulate user behavior means that much of their manual testing and validation processes can be automated—removing subjectivity and providing more consistent test results.  

Compare the following process to the one outlined above:  

• New updates are tested with Login Enterprise.  

• If test results are unsuccessful, the infrastructure and application teams must jointly review findings and implement changes.  

• Following an investigation, if tests are successful, they proceed through the ring deployment process. 

The previous process relied on uncertain testing. IT teams knew that app owners and pilot testers weren’t always reliable, and even when they did test, the results weren’t always meaningful.  

Ringed deployment strategies often delay updates for the most critical workloads until validated in earlier rings. While this allows smaller groups to test first, it sometimes leads to unexpected issues in later stages—commonly when power users with increased resource demands reveal problems that Knowledge Workers didn’t encounter.  

The Business Value: How Login Enterprise Saves Time and Reduces Downtime 

Through automated testing, IT can identify problems pre-deployment, reducing downtime and minimizing the need for reactive triage in the field. When issues are identified, the end-user perspective offered by Login Enterprise is the same one translated by end-users, simplifying the troubleshooting process with additional context.   

Login Enterprise offers this capability for any Windows desktop. Proactively testing proposed patches and updates ensures they work on every platform in any environment, preventing last-minute failures of critical workloads.  

By catching issues earlier, IT teams spend less time on rollbacks and emergency resolutions, freeing resources for more strategic projects and initiatives. It’s tough to migrate workloads to the cloud for teams constantly being pulled into investigations to prove their environment isn’t the root cause of business disruptions. 

Stop Guessing, Start Automating. Find out how Login Enterprise can help you proactively test updates before deployment. Book a demo now!