Is there a way to run a report on just 3rd Party Patches?
Is there a way to run a report on just 3rd Party Patches?
So, if you have configured a WSUS Inventory task to pull info from the WSUS server periodically:
Yes, you can run some reports that are filtered to only show data for 3rd party updates.
What we are going to do is add a field called Update Source to the " filter criteria" section (and optionally to the "fields to include" section). This will let us focus the report only non-Microsoft updates.
For a starting point with that, I would:
For comparison, here is the same report without that filter that we added; you can see that this version of it still has the Microsoft updates in it (they show with an Update Source of "MicrosoftUpdate"):
(apologies if those screenshots are a bit blurry/small, but you should be able to see that there are columns for domain, update server name, update title, computer name, update approval action, update installation state, and update source.)
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