Report of Installed Windows Updates without having Software Updates configured in SCCM 2012 R2

[TedLarsen]

Hello,

 

I'm fairly new to SCCM 2012 R2 and have a simple question. We currently have SCCM 2012 R2 setup and running in our environment, and we have it setup to do Software Inventory of all workstations, and this is working fine. I can run reports on the installed software on any of our system. We do NOT have SCCM setup or configured to manage Windows Software Updates (this is handled individually per-workstation based on their own Windows update preferences. We prefer not to setup SCCM to manage windows updates at this time. )

However, we do want to run a query on systems to see if a specific windows update has been installed by the user. Can this be done through the Software Inventory system, without having the Windows Update functionality of SCCM configured? Or is the only way to identify currently installed Windows Updates is by setting up the Software Updates component?

Thanks for any replies.

[GarthMJ]

The simple answer is no.

 

The long winded answer is: sure, if you put a ton of effort into it. But at that point I would say why not merge the reports for the various WSUS server into one place?

[TedLarsen]

Ok, thanks for the answer Garth. That's what I figured. All I'm really after is a quick easy way to see who has installed Windows 8.1U1 on their Windows 8.1 machines on their own. I was hoping SCCM had a quick way for me to see that.

 

I will look at other avenues to determine this. Thanks!