Migration Strategy for WSUS to SCCM & Software Updates

March 8, 2012 in How-To, Software Updates, WSUS by Nick Moseley

The key to protecting an environment from incidental patching during a transition from using WSUS to using SCCM with Software Updates is to reconfigure three group policies which have an impact on SCCM software updates. Specify intranet Microsoft update service location: the SCCM client sets this as a local GPO pointing to the SCCM\WSUS server.  (Note: It could be [...]

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Migration Strategy for WSUS to SCCM & Software Updates

March 8, 2012 in How-To, Software Updates, WSUS by Nick Moseley

The key to protecting an environment from incidental patching during a transition from using WSUS to using SCCM with Software Updates is to reconfigure three group policies which have an impact on SCCM software updates. Specify intranet Microsoft update service location: the SCCM client sets this as a local GPO pointing to the SCCM\WSUS server.  (Note: It could be [...]

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Use PowerShell Commands to Assist with Patching During SCCM Image Build

January 24, 2012 in Microsoft Deployment (MDT), Patching, PowerShell, SCCM 2007, Task Sequence, WSUS by Mark Kent

  Many people who use SCCM to build OS images have come across a slight issue where subsequent “Install Software Updates” task sequences are not finding any patches.  This issue occurs because the machine doesn’t [...]

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Problem with Software Updates and New SCCM Child Sites

December 8, 2011 in SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager, WSUS by Jeff Huston

  In our environment, we recently added two new child sites to our System Center Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy. The parent site had been running for several months prior to the addition of the child [...]

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Software Updates Management and Group Policy for ConfigMgr cont.

December 1, 2011 in Active Directory, Group Policy, SCCM 2007, SCUP, System Center Configuration Manager, WSUS by Jason Sandys

  This post is a continuation of my previous post. So how do the rest of the settings in the Windows Updates Group Policy section affect Software Updates in ConfigMgr? The short answer is that [...]

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Software Update Management and Group Policy for ConfigMgr (what else?)

November 30, 2011 in Active Directory, Group Policy, SCCM 2007, SCUP, System Center Configuration Manager, WSUS by Jason Sandys

  There is definitely a lot of confusion about how Group Policies interact with, control, and affect Software Update Management (SUM) on ConfigMgr clients. At the outset of this post (or series of posts), I [...]

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How to: Import a Microsoft Update into ConfigMgr

November 30, 2011 in Patching, SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager, WSUS by Greg Ramsey

  Many of us try to enable as few categories as possible in ConfigMgr for software updates synchronization. You may encounter a need to deploy an update from a classification or product you don’t normally [...]

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What happens when you don’t reboot after patching

November 3, 2011 in SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager, Windows, WSUS by Chris Stauffer

  I put this presentation together a few years ago and a topic of rebooting came up the other day so I thought I would post this presentation to better explain what happens when management [...]

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Fixing Broken WSUS Clients

October 27, 2011 in Reports and Queries, SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager, WSUS by Chris Stauffer

  There are a few things that you can do to fix those clients. 1. Try and repair the client 2. Update the client to the newest version First create a package and advertise this [...]

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Patch Management directions for SCCM

October 26, 2011 in Patching, SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager, WSUS by Chris Stauffer

  I put these directions together for admin here at the commonwealth. Let me know if they are helpful or if you find anything wrong with them. Attachment: SCCM Patch Management_1.3_Public.doc

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