Intune deployment plans are in public preview: a reusable set of rings, then a deployment that walks one app or policy through them. Worth piloting.
The part admins will trip over is that the deployment does not own the payload. Direct payload edits take precedence, include assignments accumulate as rings activate, and pausing or canceling a rollout leaves the assignments the earlier rings already added. Pause and cancel stop future rings, they do not take back what already landed.
Before your first pilot: pull the payload assignments next to your rings and remove any overlap, check that whoever launches the deployment has Read and Assign on the payload category (plan permissions are separate), and remember Multi Admin Approval now gates create, resume, cancel and delete.
Windows only for now, four payload types, Required install intent only for Win32 and catalog apps.
