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Hi Lawrence, I'm almost ready to mark your answer as correct but can you clarify one last thing ... Below is a screenshot of the updates that are found by WU/MU on one of our servers. I accept that some of the updates are for classifications not available in WSUS (controlled by our wsus administrator ) and so that is the…

in Solarwinds Patch Manager Shows no "Needed Updates" yet check online for updates on client shows 250-300mb available Comment by grant.hathaway January 2015

Thanks Lawrence, that's very helpful. See below for the answer to your questions: * What is the Refresh Date on the update view? 06/01/2015 14:48 (present time and date) * What's the most recent synchronization date of the WSUS server? (This is available from the root server node under the "Update Services" node.)…

in Solarwinds Patch Manager Shows no "Needed Updates" yet check online for updates on client shows 250-300mb available Comment by grant.hathaway January 2015

Hi, Thanks for your help on this. I've set the report exactly as you've specified, it stays on processing for a while and then times out with the below exception error:

in Reporting - Third Party Updates Comment by grant.hathaway October 2016

Hello, I've setup schedules exactly as specified above for updating separate groups of machines, Wednesday: Test Group 10am Friday: All workstations10am Friday: All servers 5am. I've chosen the option to "Download and install all needed approved updates" this means the updates need to be manually approved by myself before…

in Schedule Groups for Updates using Update Management Wizard Comment by grant.hathaway October 2015

Thanks Travis, sorry about the delay in responding. I have decided to go with the below option, this will avoid needing to manually approve the updates and means the scheduled tasks I’ve set in Solarwinds will work as intended. "Download and Install all needed Security and Critical updates"....this one does not require…

in Schedule Groups for Updates using Update Management Wizard Comment by grant.hathaway November 2015

To clarify the question: Why would the Solarwinds patch manager show "No needed" updates (literally zero found!), even though lots of updates are found when doing a "Check online for updates with Microsoft" on the client? Thanks

in Solarwinds Patch Manager Shows no "Needed Updates" yet check online for updates on client shows 250-300mb available Comment by grant.hathaway January 2015

I solved my own problem, helpful link: Install Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) - Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) (Windows)

in Upgrade existing IE versions to IE 11 via WSUS/Patch Manager Comment by grant.hathaway January 2016

Anyone help answering this one?

in Group Scheduled Updates - Approve updates without assigning to groups Comment by grant.hathaway October 2015

After reading up on this a bit more, I've seen other posts regarding installing a patch for WSUS for server 2012r2. I've installed patch KB3159706 and followed the manual steps as per: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3159706 I then install Solarwinds patch manager but get exactly the same issue as in the original…

in Event ID 7024 - WIndows internal database won't start after installing SW Patch manager Comment by grant.hathaway June 2016

I've tried the above suggestions but no joy. Anyone else offer any suggestions on this as I'm really at a loss? I was thinking of installing Solarwinds Patch manager on a separate Server 2012r2 VM and then connect to WSUS remotely to manage updates and machines in the normal way. Do I need to have it installed on the PAS…

in Event ID 7024 - WIndows internal database won't start after installing SW Patch manager Comment by grant.hathaway June 2016

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