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Hi, I would like to know what are the best practices to maintain versions of 3rd Praty software. SCCM (in my environment) can expire superseded packages 3 months after a new one comes in. However, wouldn't it be better to manually expire a superseded package before publishing the new one from the Patch Manager? I…
I have seen different types of Custom Reports for WSUS using Patch Manager, but there is one Category of Report That I can't Customize. No matter what, this report never generate any data. Can anyone in the Community Help me, please? I have different types of server stack that are like this Computers and Groups ==> All…
Here is a simple report that contains a column showing the current group memberships for the computers. I made this by editing the "Computer Update Status Approved Updates" report, converting all of the fields there to come from the Computer Update Status with Details datasource, and then adding the extra Group Memberships…
Hi, I appreciate some help from anyone with experience with reading the Applicability rules in PM. The below example (Shockwave Player) states a couple of nested AND and a nested OR as well (it looks like that to me): Can anyone spell how flow is suppose to happen in layman terms for me please? Rodrigo
Good Morning I am not seeing Chrome 59.0.3071.109 in the catalog this morning. I may be ahead of the curve since it looks like it was just posted on the 3rd party patch table today. James
I see that Flash Player 26.0.0.126 is available and I have downloaded both the ActiveX and NPAPI exe upgrade. Do we have a definition for it in Patch Manager? I don't see it, but then again, I just recently had to rebuild my patch manager server so it's possible I did something wrong or missed a step. Thanks!
I'm using PM to handle a monthly deployment of Security/Critical Updates to clients in our target WSUS groups. I am looking for advice on how the community handles the rollout of EXCLUSIVE updates. If you are familiar with the interface, updates will either 1) Fail if and exclusive update is found, 2) only install the…
Hi folks, Looking for some advice on setting up patch manager across various locations/domains. Best practice so to speak. I have Datacenter1 with Two domains (Prod/Testing). Roughly 1000 VM's, mix of 2008/2012 Datacenter2 with one Domain (Prod) Different location, roughly 200 VM's Datacenter3 Different location(Prod2…
Could someone help me please recreating a WSUS report in Patch Manager as I'm still trying to get my head round it all? I want to be able to report on which servers are missing critical and security updates, below is what I run in WSUS, just like to be able to recreate it for all groups and the option to narrow it down to…
Hi All, There is any separate agent for handling patch manager or it will work with SAM agent . Only Windows patch will be pushed or Redhat patch can also be deployed .
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