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I'm not sure if I understand what your asking for , but I do this now. On the Package Boot Editor; 1. you can add an action to apply before or after the primary package. 2. the action can be mutiple instances of 4 different actions. 'Run a program'. 'Modify a service', 'Terminate a process' or 'Terminate a process if files…

i have to agree with th3cap3. a progress bar showing mission progress is very cool.

Here's the update history on the PC. You can clearly see a number of entries for the same patch. All successfully installed. Here is an excerpt from the WindowsUpdate.log for one of the patches. 2013-01-09 08:53:10:002 580 ee0 DnldMgr ************* 2013-01-09 08:53:10:002 580 ee0 DnldMgr ** START ** DnldMgr: Downloading…

Fantastic. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

Hi LGarvin, * I wasn't implying that SolarWinds was responsible for the bug and in fact I'm not even sure it is a bug (might be a feature :-). I simply wanted to confirm if anyone was aware of the behaviour, so I provided a quick step-by-step just in case anyone was interested in checking it and thereby confirming if its…

I was hopeful that this was the answer, because I'd been declining the packages and not expiring them. I expired all of the previously declined packages and deleted them. I also cleared the SoftwareDistribution\Downloads folder. With each test variation, I'm duplicating the package so it gets a new update id. This fixed…

I wasn't aware of the documented behaviour of the WUAgent, however what I was experiencing (a looping between the 2 patches) was confirmed by the fact that I could see the 2 different file sizes in the Windows Update Control Panel applet. "1 important update selected, 160 KB" and "1 important update selected, 159 KB" I…

That's a shame. I guess that's a WSUS limitation. The customisations were purely extra files. No changes to the rules. Your experience is good, there was a reason for the 'not applicable' status. In re-installing the older version of the Flash Player, I chose the plugin version not the active-x. And being as my custom…

Thanks LG, I'll implement in this fashion.

Cheers David, I guess I should've looked in the Admin guide first. Thanks for that.

Yes, I was avoiding the detail for the sake of the lesson learned. My infrastructure team (bless them) have very strict ideas about their servers and the internet. I was able to get approval for synching and for downloading from certain sites which have rules set in our proxy. The pain of trying to get other sites approved…

I'm not entirely sure why building the package eliminated the error but it appears to have worked. I've compiled an inert executable and call that as the primary installer. I've then added the mms.cfg file to the package and the robocopy commands to package boot. Initial testing indicates this is going to work. Thanks.

Yeah, using GPO is the way to go with a simple file (re)placement, however our Infrastructure team (who own the whole GPO thing) don't believe it's the way to go and so I look for another way.

Hi Andrew I think might have to upgrade. I'm on 1.80.785. In the Rule Editor I see 20/02/2013 11:29 AM In the Package Wizard Applicabilities Rule view I see 20/02/2013 7:29 PM When I go back into the Rule Editor I see this new time 20/02/2013 7:29 PM which is wrong. In the XML I see…

Thanks LGarvin, The key piece of info here was "If the file does not exist, then the Version or Mod date are interpreted as "zero" and IS LESS THAN will always return true." I wasn't sure about the results of the rule test if the file wasn't there. I've changed my Applicability Rule to be a File Modified < date_time. I've…

The response from callidus helped me to resolve the issue. This is what I did. 1. Logged in to the Patch Manager server with the account used for the Eminentware Data Grid Server service (normally login with a local Administrator/Eminentware Enterprise Administrator account). 2. Added my own domain account to the…

Yes I read that article and it is quite useful. But what I was hoping for was more along the lines of a limit on the concurrent activity from the inventory task. How does the inventory task work, does it try to query all machines at once, using all connections available? Or are there configurable parameters ? If there is…

Thanks very much LGarvin. This has fixed the issue for me. Cheers Phil.

I’ve got this working now. This is the rule that I used. -<sdp:InstalledRule SchemaVersion="1.0"> <bar:FileExists Path="System32\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg"Csidl="36"Modified="2013-02-20T03:29:02"/> </sdp:InstalledRule> The date/time stamp is what's been causing the problems. The date stamp; * at the source is 20/02/2013…

I tried the following to isolate the problem but... I duplicated the package and changed it slightly to cater for 32 bit version. The package installs without error. Then about 2 seconds after its installed, it wants to re-install again. I've tried many variations of the FileExists rule and the FileModified rule under the…

it's pretty similar to the way we handle patching.

I went through with testing this custom package and have confirmed that the package deployed successfully and the custom registry keys were also added. So %MODULEPATH% (and other variables?) can be used in the 'Command-line parameters'.

Yes i'm on V1.8. I was looking under the SERVICE PACKS & HOT FIXES thinking the NEWEST LICENSES link was for the original license. So, all good now. Thanks for that.

This problem has been fixed. These were the steps followed to repair WSUS. * Using WSUS30-KB972455-x64.exe, uninstalled WSUS SP2 from the PM server. * Granted the Datagrid Server service account the sysadmin role in SQL for the instance of the WSUS database. * Using the WSUS30-KB972455-x64.exe and the Datagrid Server…