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Details about task completion can be obtained by enabling a "Task Results Export" and then attaching that to the email notification.

I'm checking into the case sensitivity question, Mark.

If the computers do not yet have the downloads, they will not be installing updates at power-up. They will, at some subsequent point, depending on when the scheduled detection occurs, find those updates and initiate them. It's also possible they had already been performing those downloads when powered off, so those would…

This article is in the Geekspeak blog because it directly relates to using a SolarWinds product, which is where we generally target 'how-to' content directly related to a product. PatchZone is designed for more vendor-neutral content, e.g. related to WSUS, ConfigMgr, or general patch management processes, principals, or…

One correction... that's July 10 1pm CT .... ==6pm GMT==

A new release of the tool has been posted that corrects the case-sensitivity issue as well as the https:// recognitiion issue.

and I hear that it doesn't scale too far beyond that. On the contrary, WSUS scales to tens of thousands of clients, and it was load tested on ancient (circa 2007) hardware to 100k clients per upstream server. From the WSUS 3 SP1 Deployment Guide (2007): Determine WSUS Capacity Requirements For most organizations, though,…

No, they're not currently available in the Patch Manager catalog. By posting in the Patch Manager Feature Requests forum, you have made us aware of your interest in having those products in the catalog. Ergo, they've been added to "the list".

This is the place. :-) Note that 7-Zip has already been considered. You can find more info at 7-Zip_9.20.cab

I'd also be interested in hearing about the negative responses. I suspect it may be because we've not emphasized the nature of the feature. As written in the original post, the idea has two key attributes: * Updates would be published metadata-only. * The Administrator would be able to choose by vendor, product, and…

Somehow I overlooked Adrian's inquiry a year ago, and for that I humbly apologize. I'm sure this reponse is long past useful for the purposes that Adrian needed in September, 2012, but the questions are still valid, and likely relevant to many organizations, so let me answer them now for the benefit of others who may visit…

UPDATE: Microsoft did not release this update to WSUS (or WU/MU) today. Instead the update was released to the Microsoft Download Center and to the Microsoft Catalog only. It will be released to Microsoft Update (and, by extension, WSUS) in October, 2012. For those that do want to deploy this update earlier, you can use…

Greetings ttl. I am working on finalizing a document that will describe a "How To" for configuring this functionality, and I will post back a link here when it is available. Thank you for your interest.

Greetings Alex. We know that this error when displayed only on the 'content' resource is caused because the Directory Browsing role service has been enabled in the Web Server role of the WSUS server. Normally this role service would not be enabled on a WSUS server. If you have a dedicated WSUS server, we recommend that you…

Have you seen this: Server & Application Monitor - What We're Working on Beyond v6.1

Then come morning all the updates kill our network because of the computers that didn't get it the night before This should not be an issue. The client systems will only install updates that have already been downloaded. The exception would be if you'd issued approvals between the time the system left the network and…

Greetings Doug. I agree, a universal search feature would be a great thing to have, not just for searching updates in the WSUS collection, but that feature could also be used to search a collection of Third-Party Updates in the Software Publishing node, or for an individual computer in a collection of dozens or hundreds of…

but the important thing to know is if one needs to download any of those newly synced packages I understand your interest, but there's nothing that can be done in an email notification that is going to provide any useful or authoritative information as to whether the package needs to be published to the WSUS server. The…

There may be some debate around whether "Consumerization of IT" is a future trend, or already extant. Personally, my take is that it's already a fact of life. Gartner identified it as a trend in 2005, so now it's ten years since the introduction of that trend. The marketplace has definitely shifted. In the early days, it…

While I do think there's merit to the ability to create user-defined folders under the Software Publishing node, the datagrids in the existing publisher nodes can be customized by grouping, sorting, and filtering content. I routinely configure the publisher nodes to group by product and sort by Creation Date so the newest…

Gotcha!

While the feature request to provide more detailed email notifications is definitely something we've heard, I should like to point out that this information is already available in the console. Navigate to the Software Publishing node, where you'll find a list of recent synchronization events. Select the catalog of…

Good catch, Jay. Thank you. I have corrected the original article.

Yes, they pulled the binaries sometime yesterday. I discovered it late yesterday afternoon. A couple of posts on Technet from those who say they've installed it suggest there may be defects in the binaries. I wasn't able to get copies of the installers before they were pulled. (Next time I guess I'll have to be a bit…

Greetings Phillip. I understand your concerns, and challenges. I think that an important point of this discussion is that these options are available on a per-customer basis. While you may not be able to have a site-to-site VPN with all clients, you may be able to with some. Likewise, deploying a remote poller may not be…

This is a duplicate of https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1128 and already listed in What We're Working On [WWWO] for Patch Manager beyond 2.0...

One way to approach this today is by defining a group, and then adding each of those interfaces or identities to the group. Within the group you can define how you want the state to rollup, one fail=group fail; all fail=group fail; or something in between. More information on defining and configuring groups is available in…

While the page has been pulled.. the download links are still active. It's somewhat unusual for Microsoft to pull a KB article, rather typically they just push a revision to the article when it's ready. I'm inclined to think that the disappearance of the page is inadvertent and related to a CMS issue, not the article…

I have changed in the package boot (added the %modulepath%) and save it and publish it again (full package) but PatchManager say that and the windowsupdate.log use an older revision number. There are a few things to keep in mind here: * Changing the PackageBoot configuration changes the packageboot.xml file, which changes…

2nd Tuesday of the month... :-)