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Hi everyone, we are working to improve our documentation for Patch Manager, both the Admin Guide and we are also planning to create a Getting Started Guide for new users (see the NPM guide for an example of what I mean). We would love to get your feedback on what improvements you would like to see. Here are some questions.…
How does the information flow of 3rd party packaged updates change in an SCCM environment that relies on secondary servers configured as software update points? From my understanding, normally, for Microsoft updates, the SUPs pull metadata from Microsoft directly, distribute it to their clients, and then those clients pull…
Guys, I'd like to auto-deploy the PM Client components (specifically the WMI components as don't need the agent) using a 3rd party utility (CA ITCM). I ran an ETW trace during the installation (initiated form the PM console) to a test server and the process the Console uses seems to be as follows: * Copy over a .exe and…
I have been patching with Patch Manager for about a year now, and have been having good results patching software like Adobe Acrobat, Flash, Java, Notepad++, Chrome, Skype, Firefox, Wireshark, and VMware Tools. However, I have yet to have success with the patches that fall under the category of "HP Business Clients…
I would like to create a report in Patch Manager that will do the following: 1. Show me all PCs that need updates (failed or needed). 2. Show me the individual updates each PC needs. 3. Show a little information regarding that update (name, release date, approval date, etc.). I am thinking I can group the PC names, then…
We have latest version of Patch manager and have many windows servers added in Patch manager for patching including Windows Server 2008/R2, 2012/R2. We are using Patch Manager since last one year but now we are facing issue with automatic reboot of clients at anytime. We do not want to reboot any client server…
Hi, I have an SCCM environment and have integrated Solarwinds for patching. I push the patch into SCCM and SCCM does the rest. However, that comes with a drawback. If I want to plan for a rollback the only option I've got is to run it from SCCM, which means creating a scripting package to completely uninstall the…
Has anyone found a way to get the latest Adobe Reader DC 2017.009.20044, released a month ago, from Patch Manager? I use the Adobe Reader DC Continuous Track Catalog, and still reports 15.023.20070 as the latest one. Thanks.
Guys, I wish to deploy the WMI client components (not the agent!) automatically. Can PM do this or can I grab the binaries and use a 3rd part SDT (Software Deployment Tool) ? I have been tinkering with the wmiproviders_2.1.4.5034.exe file and runnning: * wmiproviders_2.1.4.5034.exe /s this seems to work but I'd like to…
Hi, It may be a dumb question: On client Systems we use some tools which are only one file. I have to deploy this file to the correct location (i.e. C:\toolX\toolX.exe) on each System and get a report, where it is installed this way or where it have to be installed later (i.e. if a System is only running at night) Is there…
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