LGarvin

There are two videos available that were created a few years ago... Package Creation Part 1 - covers basic package definition, installation file acquisition, and a very basic look at rules and rulesets Package Creation Part 2 - covers rules more in-depth and looks at the interrelationships between Applicability and…

Sort order was lost in every view. Isn't this part of the view settings? It is, and I'm not aware of any means by which part of the view settings could be lost on every view. The view settings are stored one file per view, and the current installer should not be touching that storage folder at all. I'll inquire internally…

Thanks for the clarification on the names and sources of the errors. Which SolarWinds products are installed on this server? Since you're posting in the Patch Manager forum, I'll assume Patch Manager. What version of Patch Manager? Presuming, for the moment, that this was generated from a Patch Manager event, what task(s)…

The x86 and x86-on-x64 packages have identical binaries, thus identical ProductIDs. The only difference between the packages is the metadata, allowing for the different deployment architectures. I fear you are trying to do complex things in the package that are better done through simple prerequisite rules. Here are the…

Doesn't look like my post-install tasks are running, If that is the case, it could be that the installer is returning a non-success code. and the package is taking forever to install. Or that the installer requires user-input and is waiting for that to happen. Is there a way to test the post-install workflow easily or to…

The Patch Manager Task History would not record any information with regard to the WSUS Server downloading updates from Microsoft, that I'm aware of. Can you screencap what you're seeing in Task History and post it here. Perhaps if I see it it will trigger something that I'm not remembering mentally.

The issue has nothing to do with the folder name. We tested today using an ampersand in a folder name and it works fine. The issue, to me, appears to be related to how you are referring to this folder. How exactly are you using this pathname from the D:\ drive in your package definition?

There are also Local Security Policy settings that can interfere with the ability to authenticate remote accounts for WMI. In Security Settings \ Local Policies \ Security Options check these settings. * Network access: Do not allow storage of passwords and credentails for network authentication must be DISABLED. * Network…

Could some of these be for updates that we have declined previously and therefore are no longer visible in WSUS however may still needed by our machines? It's certainly possible. If the Updates classification is being synchronized, but the WSUS Administrator is unilaterally declining them because a decision was made to…

Thank you for the reply. I notice that 5 of these 7 systems were on Windows XP Service Pack 2 systems, and they all were with an older version of Flash. If you're able to reproduce this behavior with the Flash v11.4 package, or on a Windows XP Service Pack 3 system, we would definitely be interested in looking at it…

If the setup.exe were spawning another installer, and then terminating, I'd think that setup.exe was simply returning a success code to the WUAgent based on spawning the secondary installer, but if the setup.exe continues to exist in the process table, then there's no reason that I'm aware of for the WUAgent not to wait…

It appears that the installer is needed for Server Manager - so should I install WSUS in the future its ready and up to date. No. No. No. That update *IS* the WSUS BINARIES. You CANNOT "install" that update. You can approve it, but it will stay NotInstalled for all of eternity until you DO choose to install the WSUS role…

Since this thread was originally created, SolarWinds has released a new Diagnostic Tool for the WSUS Agent which does work on both x64 and x86 systems. If you are having issues with a client communicating with a WSUS server properly, download and run this tool on the client system. If you need assistance with the tool or…

I'm using the AcroRd32.dll, simply because it was suggested. If someone happened to suggest that checking for bigbird.txt in the C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\SecretFolder works, I'd give that a shot too. Well... testing the wrong file ... whether suggested or not, won't likely produce positive results. Last year I did a pair of…

Another suggestion just offered as a result of a internal conversation... if you're not using PackageBoot for this project, it might be helpful to do so. At a minimum it will give you access to the %modulepath% environment variable which can then be used within the context of a <program> element.

Hmmm.. that makes sense. It's an environment variable evaluated by the shell. If the execution is not occuring within the context of the shell, there's no way to evaluate it. For scripts it should be functional, if it's executing within the context of a cmd.exe session.

There is already an idea in the list that can be voted on. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1840

Since this thread still thrives.... on Tuesday Microsoft published KB2773898 which discusses how to extract the CAB file from an MSU package and install it using DISM. The purpose of the KB article was to talk about how to handle remote installation of MSUs using WUSA, which cannot be executed directly through WinRS…

Browsing the WSUS node in the console and approving updates are all done via the WSUS API, via the webserver. However, performing other tasks are done via WMI, and like any other client need to have RPC (135), SMB (445) and WMI open to faciliate that. SMB is handled easily by ensuring that File & Print Sharing are enabled.…

Oh.. yeah... ooops. Don't use 'AS' as an alias; it is a reserved word. (That's what happens when you write the SQL code in the forums editor and never actually paste it and check it in the query editor.) :-)

Regarding the apparent uninstallation of the older providers: The providers are being uninstalled (in fact, it's impossible for multiple versions to co-exist on the same system), but a defect in the InstallAware that is being used for v1.8 fails to remove this item from the installed list. If you click on the entry in ARP…

The updated package was published to the catalog at 6:30pm CT yesterday. I will check on the uninstallation of the previous version issue.

Error: A query to the SolarWinds Information Service failed. And is this error encountered when using the full query only, or also when using just the internal query? e.g. What is the response to this query? SELECT tolocal(EventTime) as EventTimeE, '/NetPerfMon/images/Event-' + TOSTRING(EventType) + '.gif' AS…

As is noted several times in this thread, the auto-updater is disabled via a registry setting. The proper way to implement a registry setting is with Group Policy. Ergo, Patch Manager is the wrong tool, which is why we don't do it in the packages. You can find the Group Policy template to disable the autoupdater here.

You should be using whatever port the server is published on... which would be exactly the same port used by the clients to connect. The error on 8531 is pretty much as expected, since I don't believe you have SSL enabled on those servers. Port 8530 may or may not be correct, depending on which version of WSUS is…

Between DMZ automation server and DMZ client servers – 135 - 445 - for Print & File Sharing Dynamic ports 1024-65536 Is it correct? It is technically correct, but you're much better off to use the native Windows configuration tools than trying to custom configure the Windows Firewall. On the client system: - Enable file…

Greetings Andrew. The yellow icon scenario simply lists the datasource(s) that the inventory task was unable to obtain data from. Typically these are transient errors and will clear themselves. Each time an inventory task is initiated on that target system, all configured datasources are queried. If a previous attempt that…

That may be an accurate indication. What are the rules defined in the Installed Ruleset of the package? Are those rules true, or not? What are the rules defined in the Applicability Ruleset of the package? Are those rules true, or not. Whether a package is detected as NotInstalled, NotApplicable, or Installed is a…

Thank you for the XDQ. I loaded it and ran it on my system and it works perfectly. So let's talk about exactly what you mean by "doesn't work". One note. There is no way to get a report based on the "last 30 days", because that filter is not provided. You can run a report based on updates released This Month, or The Past…

Greetings Kevin Thank you for sending the package definition. It helped tremendously, and I believe I know exactly what the solution for you is. As I understand, just to repeat what we've said but to make sure I fully understand -- you want to prevent the installation of the Flash package on developer machines. This…