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They get saved in C:/Users/<USERNAME>/My Documents/eminentware. Im not 100% sure yours will be the exact same folder location as mine as we had patch manager before solarwinds bought it when it was owned by eminentware so the folder may be solarwinds now? Also im using server 2008 R2 so the structure may vary depending on…

Loop 1 can also come out to you and work with you 1 on 1. Its like 1000 dollars a day iirc but may be worth it to you

The problem is its confusing There is Webex meeting center and Webex player. If you are a webex customer you can download it the meeting center from your service site. If you are not you can get it when you join a meeting. I bet if you ask webex directly you can get a download, or join a meeting and copy the installer it…

No clue. I honestly dont do this much, I just knew it existed as an option. Maybe it wont do it because thats a metadata only package. Maybe it wont do it because its detecting as the x86 for x64 version instead of the regular x86 even though they are the same package? Maybe kellytice or someone can answer that. When I…

So there is a new revision from Oracle and solarwinds development has not updated the package yet. There is a workaround I can share for anyone else who gets this issue now or in the future. Go to the package you want, in this case, Java 8u60 (x86 for x64) or whichever version you choose and right click on it and select…

If you were failing on the uninstall MSI and not choosing continue on error I could see some problems. try to do this instead. Click on the Install jre entry in the package boot editor and in command-line after the /s add REMOVEOUTOFDATEJRES=1. It will prevent you from having to add the MSI codes you want to uninstall and…

Check that file and print sharing is enabled for at least Domain in the remote PC firewall

do you have any special magic trick so it doesnt end up in unassigned? Can I make it automatically go to a different target group? I dont approve any updates for the unassigned group and thats where it ends up

Guess I misread the question somehow. I've created many custom packages over the years and it can be quite tricky, but damien has already given the answer. Please have good luck with it!

The task history can be scheduled to only keep what you want to keep, i.e. a week, a month, whatever you like. I have mine set to only keep the last 30 days worth and I may be cutting that down since its still slow to load task history each time I go to check something

I just got the msi upgrade from adobe about 3 hours ago for the .210 and it worked fine for me

My question is more that the downstream server is set not to store files locally. Do you know how that gets handled by PM when it syncs to a downstream?

Editing the packageboot works when you want to remove the previous version when installing the new version. To remove the old versions I used PSExec, made a txt file of all PCs and then just put in for example 8u25 PsExec.exe @FILE.txt -h -u DOMAIN\ADMIN ACCOUNT MsiExec.exe /X{26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83218025F0} /qn You…

Ive been using PDQ deploy free version for years now for small deployment projects and just recently got authority to purchase the full version of inventory and deploy and weve been using it now for a few weeks full force and its been great. I may be there with you stcain, ill evaluate it for full patching duties here…

This is all outlined in the admin guide but I'll do my best from memory at 11pm using my phone. Download and install the patch manager package. Run through the configuration wizard and input your WSUS server info and either use the sql express that comes with it or enter the info for a remote sql database. Once it's…

Thats what i was afraid of, it seems like a rotten process. What stinks is the PCs know how to deal with exclusive updates on their own if you just go and click check for updates it all works out fine. The problem I have is i think these do come out in patch tuesdays now and they dont announce it (or at least I cant find…

Yes I have it installed on server 2016 connected to a seperate 2016 full SQL server as well

The task history shows some info but not the actual command run. Maybe this will help.. one of a success and one of a failure. The failure is because I have it firewalled

I'm at home so I'm going to tell you how I remember it. I hope I get the steps right in what the things are actually called, I just remember doing it. Find the computer in patch manager and double click to open computer explorer. Go to Windows update agent repair. Check the boxes for reset wsus id and reset authorization.…

Im not sure where your traffic logs are going to be, mine are easy to access across the room by asking the guy who takes care of the firewalls It may not be that anyway, have you opened a ticket with solarwinds? They are pretty good at resolving problems like this

Im not quite sure what youre describing. The computer groups that you are creating are WSUS target groups and dont correlate or communicate necessarily with AD. You add computers to the groups either by changing the PC registry (usually with an AU GPO) and either set it in a group by console targeting (default) where you…

If your servers never contact your wsus server then it doesn't need the client components anyway. I have redone my wsus and pm pas server several times and never had to manually do anything for them to be auto deployed.

You can auto approve for microsoft updates through wsus via patch manager, you dont have to do that on the wsus server itself, but for third party i cant find a way to do it either. You can put in a ticket with solarwinds and they may know if its possible or not. 

It looks like your adding a local account? Try it with an active directory account. I don't believe a local account would do anything for you. Are you trying to set someone up with an account to use the patch manager console on a different computer?

You could also just add the uninstall to the packageboot of the new Java install before you publish it. Ive done it in the past and it works fine. You can also use the REMOVEOUTOFDATEJRES=1 in the packageboot of the install package for the new java install but it will only remove java versions that have fallen below…

did the re-index script help at all?

That is strange then. Do you do maintenance on the SPM DB regularly? When was the last time you ran the server cleanup wizard or the WSUS SQL cleanup script?

Looking at this again I see you asked why they released 2 versions in 1 day. While they revise the versions they release constantly just as they release them, they also do this two version thing now and have done so since version 8. They say that 8u65 contains all patches and 8u66 contains all patches plus additional…

for 8u60 they released it 6 times in 3 days. Im not sure what Sun changes but they make a change and then solarwinds development has to package it up again and release it.

Im sure kellytice has answered it before in detail but for myself, without logging in and looking, I know that the external catalog is where you want to get the updates from. The solarwinds catalog just has full packages? Or something like that, i cant remember but theres a difference and the adobe external catalog is…