Is there any way to speed up the process for Patch Manager to publish 3rd Party patches to WSUS? What takes so long for this process and are there any logging options to see where the delay is?
I'm assuming that you are talking about after they are approved? If so, you can manually run the synchronize server, on your main wsus sever, then after that is done, do the same on the relay servers. That will force the servers to see all the new approvals, and the end user can run windows update to get it after that. Or you can just wait until it automatically does it in the middle of the night.
Start in PAS by doing this:
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Then in WSUS or SUP:
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