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15 15:35:57:010 404 1030 AU # 0 updates detected This does not mean that the update is Not Applicable; it only means that there are no updates available at that moment. To determine whether an update is Installed/NotInstalled/NotApplicable, use the console and confirm that the client's Last Reported Date is current.…

I'm told there's a HOTFIX that addresses this type of issue. http://downloads.solarwinds.com/solarwinds/Release/HotFix/Patch_Manager-v1.85.490-HotFix1.zip

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however it does not remove subkeys from previous versions so I can't test for a subkey. Can you not use the absence of the subkey as an indicator that the update is not installed? Not having a standard installation directory definitely puts a kink in doing file version checks.

For NetBIOS browser management, I use the BROWSTAT utility which is part of the XP SP2 Support Tools kit.

The VLAN may also be contributing to this, given that NetBIOS and workgroup browsing is a broadcast technology that is constrained by network boundaries ... physical or virtual. What you might have to do is deploy a Patch Manager Automation Role server inside that VLAN, and configure an Automation Routing Rule for the…

Is there some reason you're not using the SolarWinds-provided packages of JRE7u55 from the catalog? Yes, I see that if you were going to apply a transform you'd need the embedded MSI; but then you bailed on that because it's not signed and reverted back to the EXE. What else did you change in the package? What's in the…

Now we are transitioning to IE 10. For some reason most of my machines say "Not applicable" and i can not figure out why. There's one additional prerequisite for IE10/Win7 that did not get documented: KB2834140. Previously discussed in TechNet and SpiceWorks.

Send it to lawrence.garvin@solarwinds.com

On the client-side, the files are normally deleted after the update is successfully installed. The ~\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder is auto-maintained by the WUAgent and files are deleted 10 days after they are no longer needed. Since they're stored in the %windir% folder tree, only Administrators would have access.…

While I'm inclined to agree that deadlines might be involved, the more practical case is that using Patch Manager's Update Management task would not invoke those deadlines. The only plausible scenario in which that could occur is if the approval-and-deadline had been created within the time frame of the client's last…

Whether there might be a 'bug in how the timestamps are handled when a CAB file is created is really beyond the scope of SolarWinds or Patch Manager, as that's a Microsoft specification, a Microsoft tool, and a Microsoft product where the CAB file was built. (Patch Manager does not build the CAB file; the WSUS API actually…

When launching the install task from Patch Manager, is the Office 2010 CAB file already downloaded, or does this installation task include the download activity? What is the physical size of the CAB file for the Office 2010 update. If the WUAgent is trying to download the Office 2010 CAB file from the WSUS server, and the…

The latest missive from Microsoft says that IE10 for Win7 should have been in the Patch Tuesday collection (Oct 8).

Cool, Justin! If you would be willing to export that package (without binaries) and post it to the Patch Manager Content Exchange, I suspect Mike would appreciate that. :--)

Generally speaking, Andrew, the Release Notes are published concurrently with the General Availability of the release. We typically send an announcement to customers via email, and Patch Manager has a Notifications capability that will let you know when the release is available for download. The existing "Release Notes"…

None that I've heard of, Michael. In fact (and here's perhaps the most scary part) .. I can count on one hand (actually two fingers) the number of Windows 8 RT tablets I've seen outside of stores and trade shows, and I don't know anybody, personally, who has actually installed a Windows 8 Operating System. I saw one RT…

Greetings Pedro. We do not provide specific identification of features in current development, aside from the above identification of what we are generally working on. However, if you have suggestions for features to be added to the product, by all means, let us know about those, as we're definitely interested in your…

A properly configured firewall is very important. Glad you found that. :-) (Although the task should have timed out in the event of non-connectivity.) If you need to add entries to the HOSTS file to locate a Domain Controller in a trusted domain/forest, that would suggest that inter-domain DNS has not been properly…

FAILED is a transient state which is only reported on INSTALLABLE updates. In fact, it's an event that is only reported once, and until the WUA reports some other status on that update, it reports nothing, thus the WSUS server continues to display the "failed" state. Once an update is no longer applicable, it becomes…

If there are no EventID 364s in the AppEventLog of the WSUS server, then it's not failing to download the updates... but it may be downloading slower than you anticipated. What was the information that led you to believe the update downloads were failing?

On the approval question... Using Update Management to Approve/Decline an update is a bit tricky. So since it works as expected from the Update View, let's work from the presumption that this is about the usability in the Update Management tool and not core WSUS or Patch Manager-to-WSUS functionality that is impacted. When…

Can you expand on what you mean by "can no longer change".. does it fail to launch the approval dialog, or just appear to ignore your request?

In the AppEventLog, specifically you'll want to look for EventID 364.

To be sure, it's not the package that is causing this malady, but specifically a defect in the installer itself as published by Oracle. Hopefully it's an isolated defect in this release and will not appear (or will be fixed) in future releases. Generally speaking, these different patch versions will likely coexist. The…

There are three potential sources from which you can get a publishing certificate: 1. A self-signed certificate created by the WSUS server. (The WSUS server is its own Certificate Authority.) 2. A certificate created from an internal PKI known as an Enterprise Certificate Authority -- such as with Microsoft Active…

The MS KB article also notes that the counter is reset when the service is restarted. The error apparently occurs only when a message is submitted multiple times (which generally would happen only if the original submission failed to deliver on the first attempt). With that in mind merely setting the thresholds higher may…

Does anyone have any experience setting up exclusions for these installs. Generally speaking, your AV/AM software should be configured to exclude the %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder and all subfolders/files. At a minimum (if possible), you should disable Scan-On-Create for that folder tree. This file is only…

The information provided in these 14 Update Services Computer datasources are part of the asset inventory capabilities built into WSUS to support System Center Essentials. They're enabled for use in Patch Manager by enabling the Extended Inventory Information option in the WSUS Configuration dialog, and will be populated…

Greetings Mark. This was a known issue in previous builds, but was reported as fixed in the v2.0 SR1 build. I cannot explain your observation of behavior with v2.0.2203.0, and we've been unable to reproduce that behavior using v2.0.2203.0. Likewise the issue should be fully resolved for v2.0.2207.0, and we've not been able…