How Microsoft IT Does Patch Management
My old team - IT Showcase - packages up great information for IT Pros on how IT works at Microsoft. For the latest on how Microsoft IT does patch management, see:
The latest PPT presentation and the earlier SMS PPT. And/Or you can read the 1 pager.
And finally
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/security/mspatch.mspx