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Greetings Derek. The complete list of published packages is available at: https://www.eminentware.com/cs2008/media/p/719.aspx

In the package deployment wizard, it says that no transforms (.mst) file is necessary if an msi file is present. Is this a true statement? Yes. The MST file is an optional file used to transform (or customize) the default installation provided in the MSI file. Frankly I'm somewhat intrigued that a developer would ever…

Using WSUS Target Groups and Approvals is the correct way to address this particular scenario. Alternatively, with Patch Manager, you can also use the Update Management Wizard to deploy the JRE update as an Unapproved Update to a discrete list of computers, or create a Patch Manager Computer Group with those machines as…

Greetings. The key here is not that it's an account that has Administrator rights on the operating system, but rather that it its a SQL Login that has been granted membership in the 'sysadmin' server role of SQL Server. 1. Create the SQL login for the domain account. 2. Open the SQL Login properties and in the server roles…

The error is an indication that the WMI Providers are not being installed. The reasons for the WMI Providers to fail to install are generally one of these two: - The option to disable automatic deployment of WMI Providers was enabled at installation. (This option can be changed on the "Settings" tab of the Managed…

On remote SQL server, I created a local account for this with sysadmin privileges in SQL This will account for part of the issue. The account created on the remote SQL Server must be a DOMAIN account, that domain account must be granted 'sysadmin' privileges on the SQL Server instance, and that domain account must be the…

I'm looking for the step by step of importing a publishing certificate issued from my internal CA for use with Solarwinds Patch Manager. Ideally, certificates created from an Enterprise CA would be auto-enrolled. The second best option is distribution via Group Policy. The one exception to this is getting the full…

134 PCs are perpetually listed in this report as needing updates, but only 7 PCs show up in the Update Services portion of the console as requiring one or more updates. You've only attached the XDQ (report template), so it will be impossible to use that to inspect your data. I doubt this is an issue with the report…

The AV question is a common scenario on software installs While many times its not done, if you read almost any installation or deployment guide, you'll find 'disabling AV/AM software' as a recommended action. It is known that some AV/AM software will interfere with the installation of applications from time to time.…

How many Patch Manager servers are deployed in this environment? How many Management GROUPS have been configured. In short, this message is saying that the Management Server for the WSUS Server is not running. Check the "EminentWare DataGrid Service" and make sure it's running. Also, check the Patch Manager Servers node…

Greetings Luis. Firstly, since the issue is about INSTALLATION of the Adobe Flash ActiveX product, the truth is that neither WSUS, nor Configuration Manager, nor Patch Manager, are products involved in this problem. I believe that Microsoft Technical Support has told you as much already. Your ticket with SolarWinds support…

Greetings Shaiful That is the extent of what you'll be able to get from the Patch Manager report itself, as Patch Manager has no way to define columns based on data values. To convert what you have to what you want, I would suggest exporting to Excel and implementing a pivot table to make the Computer Group data be the…

This is a known condition when the JRE installer is obtained from an incorrect location. The Package Download Assistant has a built-in link to obtain the installer from the Oracle Technology Network. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-1880261.html and that's the binary that the package…

None seemed to be specific on registry checks without file version check. Registry checks by themselves, without file checks, are notoriously unreliable EXCEPT when used to determine if a product is NOT installed. The absence of a registry KEY is always a great indicator that a product is not installed. As such, the best…

Good information, Phil. But it begs another question ... if your Patch Manager server does not have Internet access .... how are you synchronizing the Patch Manager 3rd party updates catalog? And just to clarify... both the Package field and the Download URL field must have valid values. The Package field will display only…

The 0x80070643 error is a generic MSI failure message, and is not related to the publishing certificate. (A publishing certificate issue would actually prevent the download of the installation file, thus it would never even get the chance to be launched.) Generally when an MSI/MSP installation fails via the WUAgent,…

One way to deal with the uninstallation of JRE6 is to open a Computer Explorer session to a computer with JRE6 installed. Navigate to the Installed Software tab, select "Java Runtime Environment 6", and create an Uninstall Software task and target it to the desired machine(s). Taking it a step farther, if you're doing…

I'd really enjoy taking a look at this, Fahad. (Email address is available in my Thwack profile.)

Beyond the immediate fatal issue with the Installed Ruleset... I'm also seeing some creative, and potentially overcomplicated, logic in the Applicability Ruleset. An OR block testing for one of the following: FileVersion Path="Program Files (x86)\Verizon Wireless\VZAccess Manager\VZAccess Manager.exe" LESS THAN 7.10.0.0…

>> However I'm getting an update loop, and the windowsupdate.log is telling me "WARNING: Failed to evaluate Installed rule, updateId = {1C1CBC09-51F5-428C-A86E-20B2FB0EC25E}.2, hr = 80070002". These two behaviors are congruent with one another and suggest a fatal defect in your Installed ruleset. The failure to evaluate…

This task needs about 4 hours to run. Would you like to troubleshoot this four-hour runtime in this thread, or in the other one? Reporting is how you get an "automatic report". It doesn't matter the methodology you use to extract the data in the database if you're only updating it once a week. As a starting point, I notice…

Select the Configuration Manager Site Servers node and launch the Site Server Registration Management utility. In that dialog is the setting for the Site Code. You should be able to retrieve it from the current server by simply selecting the Site Server in the dropdown and clicking on Resolve. If not, you can edit the…

I'm sorry, but you cannot. NPM and the other products in that suite only install onto Windows Server..

struggling to find a way of reporting on Computers in Active Directory compared to computers which have checked into WSUS. We have multiple domains and WSUS servers and need to either report on the lot or per domain to find active computers which aren't in WSUS for whatever reason. Can this be done? Greetings James. This…

There are several methods... depending on what you want to purge. But if the database is full, purging is not the answer. While it may provide you some temporary respite, whatever is causing this issue will almost certainly return in very short order. If the database is full because you're not using SQL Server 2008 R2…

we are required to produce a monthly report that shows all patches installed on each server on a monthly basis. A fundamental, and unfortunate, limitation in the Microsoft WSUS infrastructure is that the WSUS server does not permanently record Installation Date for updates, only the fact that they are installed as of the…

which includes the ID (e.g. 47ea9572-625b-4598-9696-6b1e43232644)? Okay, based on the subject I'm going to assume you mean the SusClientID. Easiest way to get that is to look at the Managed Computers node (if you've done an inventory), and the SUS Client ID has its own column. Export to Excel. In Reporting, the field is…

our patch manager software has been approving random patches for random groups. This is functionally impossible. :-) Any Approvals issued from Patch Manager would generate a Task History entry for the approval task, whether done interactively or scheduled. There may be Automatic Approval rules in place on the WSUS server…

Release Notes and Upgrading Orion Network Performance Monitor from the Network Performance Monitor Administration Guide

One other thing you might want to consider... Rather than accessing the INSTALLER_INPUT.TXT file from the network share, there may be value in including that file in the package itself, so that it's a local resource called from the script. This really revolves around what the contents of that file actually are, and whether…