Update age reports from patch manager

Question

Hey Everyone

My company is new to using patch manager (Version 2.1.5.6002 if it helps).

We where hoping to be able to use it to identify computers that are not recieving critical/needed updates on time.

Currentily i am just looking a "All computers" under each update server and filtering on "Needed" but this ofen shows for example a few pc's that need 100 updates but apon investagation there might be nothing wrong with these and given some time and a reboot they will sort them selves out. Similary i have found Pc's with only 1 update "needed" and none faile but this update could have been released months ago and for some reason is not getting it.

Is there a way to either display or generate a report on all computers that are missing updates that are over a certan age?

For example i am not worred about updates that came out in the last 2 weeks but i want to know all computers missing updates that came out before this so i can get on and fix them.

Kind reguards.

Chris

jrouviere · Answer

You can filter and display dates on the updates, it can vary what you're looking for. The one that comes to mind would be "Arrival Date" which is usually the date that it was published or available on the WSUS server, so if you were synchronizing on Patch Tuesday that would be a good baseline to start with. There are other dates as well, I believe there's an approval date, but don't have it in front of me to give a screenshot of it.