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Patching in SCCM 2007 by spruitt

Here’s a summary of some of the most significant differences I found in patching between SMS 2003 and SCCM 2007. Note that other differences I don’t list may be significant to your deployment process....

Recurring advertisements are required for patching by spruitt

My co-worker Shaun Cassells made an important discovery when we began patching with SMS 2003. When you advertise the patch update packages, you must always set up a recurring execution. The logic of the...

Allowing selected users to postpone patching by spruitt

Someone asked an interesting question in the mssms mailing list recently. I answered it there, and thought it was worth recording in a blog as well. He wanted to know how to deploy patches so that some...

Identifying and selecting Office patches by spruitt

If you are preparing your first Office patches, you may have a hard time finding them in the Distribute Software Updates Wizard. Office patches are set up a little differently than OS patches. How differently...

Unexpected reboots when patching by spruitt

Have you ever had users complain that their computer rebooted unexpectedly about the time you deployed patches? Maybe it gave them a brief warning, but no chance to postpone? We ran into that, and it took...

Baseline Patching by spruitt

Do you concentrate just on applying the latest updates? Do you figure that once last month's patches are done you can forget about them? If so, you are leaving some machines vulnerable without realizing...

Patch Deployment Strategy and Scheduling by spruitt

How do you schedule when updates will be applied to your machines? What deployment strategy and design do you use? Patching always carries the risk of unnecessary accidental disruption, but that risk can...

Verifying Authorized Times and Setting Grace Period by spruitt

In my earlier article, Settings for Distribute Software Updates Wizard , I said that we changed the grace period on the command line as required to change the patching deadline for various deployments...

Settings for Distribute Software Updates Wizard by spruitt

Many people have come up with different settings for DSUW, based on their environment and personal preferences. Here are the settings I chose, with the reasons. The ITMU scanner is always run prior to...
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