It's helpful, thanks.
Unfortunately, it's still a waste of time with more clicking around in the console for each policy I need to rescope when I release patches from internal testing to sample group & then again to production.
1) I don't know why 7.6 is making it so many more clicks to point policies at a filter. It has worked great for me since implementing 7.x 5 years ago at I think 3 clicks per policy. Now I either have to create targets from existing filters just making more duplication in the console, or use my existing filters which now takes like 10+ clicks to scope to a policy because you have to go into the Computers wizard thing.
2) Even if I go the target route, once targets are created, it still takes more clicks to push my patch policies to the new target vs using filters in 7.5. I have to click Apply to, quick apply, under folder select the custom folder i created (since I can't add custom filters to the default),then select my filter, then click the greater than sign to select it, then click ok.
7.5 Sp1 was working fine for us. I mainly upgraded to 7.6 after listening to a Symantec webcast about how improved the new console is, speed improvements, etc. I'm not seeing it. It seems like on the patching side, at least, where I'm constantly rescoping policies, upgrading to 7.6 is going to cost me a lot of time in increased unnecessary clicking around... maybe someone out there has better way of doing things that I'm missing.
Or maybe a hotfix will allow us to go back to scopting to filters with minimal clicks.