LGarvin

The dearth of my online appearances this weekend were a factor of my physical appearances in a booth at VMWorld. I'm working on catching up in forums over the next 48 hours. :-)

The local installer folder would be '.' (dot) relative to where the master MSI file is being executed from. Where the MSI logs are found has nothing at all to do with Patch Manager; it's a function of where that MSI installer is configured to drop those logfiles. Quite often it's in the %appdata%\local\temp folder of the…

There is no need to register the CM2012 server in the MMC; that's a legacy holdover that supports CM2007 environments. You do, however, need to register the SUP as an "Update Server" in the MMC. With respect to credentials... every WSUS Server managed by Patch Manager must have a defined rule in the Credential Ring that…

The version number I have in is also matching what's showing up in this window as well. Except that your version number is not in the required four-part dotted-decimal format. The unanswered question is this: What's the value for the fourth part. Is it zero? If so, you need to specify it as v4.0.701.0 However, even then,…

Shutdown was initiated by going start - shutdown On what operating system? With which logged-on user? What are the configuration options of the WUAgent on this system? Notwithstanding the question of the approval state of the update -- which is most certainly a critical question to be resolved -- most notably missing from…

I *THINK* I know what happened here, and it seems that it may be a function of recent changes in behavior of the Windows Update Agent (introduced in v7.6 as best as I've been able to tell) and the specific order of steps performed. It used to be in the days of WUA v7.4 and earlier that any deployment task (e.g. using the…

I can confirm that in the process of creating the package I have been tweaking the package many times, but each time I amend it I use the Delete option when I republish. This may be part of the issue. The "Delete" option from the Publishing Wizard is not always successful at fully deleting a package from WSUS *and* if you…

We are looking for workstations that have Cygwin installed, i.e. C:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe. Any assistance is appriciated. Have you tried just a simple Installed Programs report? If you've already done a WMI Inventory, then collecting information about installed programs is on by default. Run the Installed Programs and…

I would double check the proxy configuration on the SPM server. You're definitely not getting the updated EWFEED.CAB from solarwinds.com, and that's also the methodology for transmitting the product upgrade reminders. If the proxy configs are correct, I would recommend opening a ticket via the Customer Portal.

Ahhh.. so for the rows where CHARINDEX is returning a result of zero, you'll need to explicitly test for that. The conversion error is because neither SysName or DNS are numeric values. There's a couple of ways you can test for that. In addition to the IS NOT NULL test, you could also explicitly test for the empty string…

Apparently this is a well-known and oft-discussed bug, logged in the chromium project, that dates all the way back to Chrome v8 in 2010. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=67348

My money is on the fact that the 10.1.10 MSP does not like your 10.0.0 -> 10.1.9 upgrade path. Adobe writes these MSPs assuming that patches have been applied incrementally. My guess is that the 10.1.10 MSP is looking for the 10.1.0 ProductID and/or the 10.1.9 PatchID in the Windows Installer database, and one or both of…

The "command line" field should have the exact contents of the command line that worked interactively, EXCEPT: * The /qn parameter. * The /norestart parameter. * The /i filename parameter (because, presumably, the MSI file identified in the /i parameter is defined in the Package Wizard as the MSI file to be installed). The…

What I said should be read like: If I run "Windows Update" on the Client, which is connected to my WSUS, gets the Update and installs. There is no logical reason why anything that happens using the Control Panel WUApp would be any different than what happens via the WUA natively or a Patch Manager deployment task, EXCEPT…

below is a screen shot of my configuration. is it correct Nope. Check REG DELETE /? at a command prompt. Correct syntax does not include braces around the KEYNAME. Also, the REG command does use the abbreviated RootKey name. (The software packaging schema does not.) My apologies for confusing the issue; I used the braces…

Content Authors identified a defect in the Prerequsite Rules for the x86 package and republished it this morning. Correct logic is: Arch='x86' AND (WindowsVersion >= '6.0.0.0 Server' OR WindowsVersion >= '5.1.0.0 Workstation') Published (incorrect) logic was: Arch='x86' AND WindowsVersion >= '6.0.0.0 Server' AND…

Thank you David for the additional information.

Thank you. That context helps tremendously. So you're able to successfully read from that folder when defining the "Additional Files", but the publishing process is tripping up on a file in that folder. Are you publishing from the LOCAL console or from a REMOTE console? My inclination is that this is an issue with…

This is a CLIENT-SIDE error. It's saying that the WUAgent cannot download the file for that update from the WSUS Server because it does not exist on the WSUS server -or- the access permissions on the content store are incorrect. Now that we know that it is the client that's recording the HTTP 404 error, we also know a…

What version of Oracle Forms is installed?

So here's the simple solution. Patch JRE7 to the current version and then you only have one version to worry about uninstalling. :-) My point about installing side-by-side was to say that the JRE7 does NOT need to be uninstalled when installing JRE8. In fact, my personal take is that the uninstallation should NOT be coded…

Would it be because I have the package as declined in patch manager therefore it needs to be approved? The WUA cannot install a declined update.

If the original setup.exe is spawning another process, then terminating and returning a result code, there's not much you can do to manage that scenario. Even if you did use something sleep.exe, you'd still be guesstimating what the delay time should be, and there's always a possibility that it comes up too short and…

[LG Mod 9/21 @ 5: 15pm CT] I have edited this post to more accurately reflect reality. I made some assumptions in my original response that were not accurate, and I have deleted those incorrect statements from this post so as not to confuse any other persons who may read this at some point in the future.] I did some…

If you've synchronized since 7pm CT last night (9/19), you should have the newer package. You can confirm the package is the newest by inspecting the Installed Ruleset rule and confirming that the SubPath = 'WMI Providers\EminentWareExtensionProvider.exe' Publish the revised package to WSUS, ensure the Revision is properly…

Just the full query receives the error. The internal query works fine. What version of NPM are you using? I was just reminded of a legacy issue with subqueries where the subquery needs to be aliased, e.g. SELECT TOP 50 Q.EventTimeE, Q._IconFor_Message, Q.Message FROM ( SELECT tolocal(EventTime) as EventTimeE,…

Just the full query receives the error. The internal query works fine. Okay. Thanks for the additional background. I'm checking on the syntax to see what the issue may be.

Enabling the "Collect Extended Inventory Information" option is an on-demand configuration change; it shouldn't have offered you the ability to 'schedule' that change. I'll check into that behavior. You can confirm its working in two different ways: 1. The WSUS Inventory group of reports will be populated with data after…

Is it specifically ,Net 3 or could it also be 3.5, 3.51, or higher? The *tool* only requires .NET2, but inasmuch as Microsoft only supports .NET3.5.1 .... :-) The issue being, there's no .NET2/NET3 on a WS2012/WS2012R2 system, and I doubt installing .NET351 is justifiable just for this task. What if on the remote server,…

how do I see where the management group is hosted? Management groups are created/managed in the Management Groups node of the MMC console under Patch Manager System Configuration When you install and register an Application/Management server, the Patch Manager Server Wizard should have prompted you to create a new…