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from your PC go to start and run wbemtest When it opens go to connect. Leave root\cimv2 but add a computer you want to try and connect to before that like PCTEST\root\cimv2 Enter in the credentials you want to use to connect with WMI and click connect. If it connects then you have WMI connectivity and your problem is…

you are better off submitting a support ticket for this http://www.solarwinds.com/support/ticket/

Just in case anyone wants to use PSExec from sysinternals to do the uninstalls like I did here are the scripts for the uninstalls. I made text files from a solarwinds report and ran it that way. Took a few days to get it all correct but it did work. You will want to change document.txt to whatever your text file is named…

Have you tried going to the All Computers target group, highlighting the top one and then shift selecting the last one to get all selected, then on the right panel go to client certificates management and distributing it that way? Im not 100% sure if you can do them all at once that way but you can also deploy it through…

Add credentials in the security and user management

You do not need SCCM, although you can use SCCM with patch manager if you like. Patch manager has a catalog of third party updates and you can also add others like adobe. You can also create custom packages for anything that solarwinds does not have a pre-made package for however it can be difficult and tech support will…

upgrading from RTM or 1511 to 1607 can be done without interaction but not from Win 7 or 8/8.1. You can accomplish the upgrade with SCCM or MDT. SCCM can be automated, MDT has to be initiated while a user is logged in.

To answer number 1: If you delete all those packages you will have to republish them if a client needs them. First off, plan on 150 GBs or so of disk space for updates. You can go to all updates and sort by supercedence. Delete any superceded third party and decline any microsoft updates. Also make sure you scroll down to…

Computers with unknown status havent checked in. Dont use Orion, open up the MMC and sort all computers by last contacted date and youll probably see a few that haven't been online or have an issue communicating

Please publish the Chrome update from the 25th National Cyber Awareness System: Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome 01/25/2017 10:01 PM EST Original release date: January 25, 2017 Google has released Chrome version 56.0.2924.76 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses multiple vulnerabilities that, if…

It should be pretty straightforward if you have an existing install, just download the new one from the portal and install it with no user configuration needed. Im going to do it this coming monday since its patch tuesday week this week and ill let you know

Solarwinds has some third party software that it will release and there are also a few others like adobe that have catalogs you can pull patches from into patch manager. When they are released, you publish them to WSUS (or SCCM though I dont use it so im not sure if it goes to SCCM directly or still WSUS) and then they get…

Is there no information in task history under administration and reporting?

Thats an interesting question. When I make custom apps I always choose can require restart. Im not sure why I do it, just that I do. It follows the normal installation that requires publishing, approval, detection, and then the GPO sets when that installs if its not done manually. Ive never had one reboot on a user because…

I am nowhere near sure on this but just something tickles my brain about needing 4 numbers in the value with periods. Something like 4.4.01054.0 Either way you can do the rule another way and just look for file with version instead of registry. Creating custom packages sucks hard with patch manager and sometimes what…

In computer explorer for those PCs go to windows update agent maintenance and repair and select reset authorization and reset windows update agent sus client ID. It may not be the exact fix for this but it does solve issues I have when computers dont get updates anymore so its worth a try for you.

As far as I know its just a broad term that represents all the machines you intend to publish updates to.

They will kick off, no queue

Its definitely possible via WMI and powershell. Spiceworks definitely has the ability to do it. Patch Manager may be able to but its pretty complicated to navigate the insane web of what to choose and what section to choose it from. If it helps, this WMI call will give you the data if AV is installed and give you a txt…

I wonder if they are slacking because flash gets released for windows 10 by microsoft now and SW forgets people still use Win 7 and 8?

When you are upgrading to a newer version of patch manager you can just stop and restart the emintwaredatagrid service or restart the server. Im not sure what you mean by special settings. It sits on top of WSUS so whatever settings you have for updates thats how they will go out. You can create target groups and approve…

Normally they put out the PSU at the same time as the CPU but for some reason this time adobe has not released the PSU. They list 8u122 as set to be released january 2017 but that ship will sail as of tomorrow so im not sure when we will see it come out. Java 7 and Java 8 Releases by Date

To do it in PM you need to publish the update you want removed Go to All Computers or whichever target group you would like and right click it and select update management Expand the tree on the left and find the update you would like to uninstall. Double click it when it appears in the top box to add it to the bottom box.…

Solarwinds said they have given patch manager to a new internal team who is learning how to do things. Its not looking good at this point in terms of speed and accuracy like it had been. I thought it was bad to wait a day or two before but now its getting crazy

You may have to do it in the WSUS panel and not patch manager. Im not 100% sure as ive never done in in SPM but under options > sources and proxy> there is a checkbox for "this is a replica server" Just uncheck that. As for your second question I have no idea what you mean. A list of computers to go under WSUS? You assign…

The simple answer is no. The reason is the supersedence gets set when the package is created. If its not set then you have to go and touch that package to set the supersedence in which case you may as well just delete it. You can easily sort and delete them though. Start by going to Updates > Third Party Updates Select…

This is the current list of third party supported products Table of third party patches - updated 10/09/2015 In my opinion it has most of the standard items you would use but for anything specific to an organization no it does not. You can create custom packages for any application, which unfortunately can be a pain and…

I would just approve IE 9, 10, and 11 and let patch manager work. Im sure you could edit the IE 11 package and change the applicability rules to be 8,9, or 10, but in my experience upgrading IE versions is full of problems anyway so I wouldnt want to complicate it myself. 

You need to delete it and make a new one. It gets old quick, especially when I have one set up that I edit for a nightly restart and have to remake it each time I add another PC.

So when you have inventoried your computers you get data from whats installed. Im not quite sure what you mean by the list includes all third party software, i think you may be confused on where to get that info from. This is copied from a different post that kellytice responded to kellytice Feb 13, 2017 8:17 PM (in…