Understanding updates

[regan]

I've followed the great guides of here and integrated wsus with my sccm setup and sorted the updates into folders (see attachment ) my question is should i have different folders for both x64 & x86 or just put them into one deployment package (eg all windows 7 updates). Also I'm a bit confused with updates that dont say x64 or x86 how do i know which system to they belong to or do they belong to both in which case that's going to be hard to manage as i cant copy them into two locations as far as i am aware. Also i see updates that say affected products that sometimes say multiple operating systems so would i need to create a package like "multiple OS"

 

 

[Peter van der Woude]

The folders you're creating don't really add anything to the deplooyment process. In the Update repository I would simply use searches to find the applicable updates. After that you can add them to the different groups and packages (as one update can be part of multiple groups and packages).

[regan]

thanks, so are you saying i would be better off not creating the folders to start with? and just creating software group by searching "windows 8.1" creating a package with all the updates in, then doing the same for office ect?

[Peter van der Woude]

Yes, I'm suggesting to remove the folders in the Update repository. The easiest way to search for the same updates every month again is to create searches by adding criteria (like product, expired, supersedence) and saving those searches to reuse them again.

[regan]

Ok so this is what i'm thinking of doing please correct me if its wrong. Setup a search function for each set of products and then create a software update group called "all windows 7 updates" which then will create a deployment package. Then create a software update group called testing where i put all new updates and deploy to testing systems, once im happy i can then add them to the "all windows 7 updates" group?

[anyweb]

why not just follow these ?

 

• using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager - Part 9. Deploying Monthly Updates
• using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager - Part 10. Monitoring our Monthly Updates Automatic Deployment Rule

[regan]

thanks im going to follow those guides with regards to the monthly updates from now on but i need a starting point where all updates are together i would have thought?

[anyweb]

they are all together, in the All Software Updates node, follow the guides above and you'll be more clued in to the overall picture

there is one thing you must know though, the guides I write show you ONE way of doing things, Configuration Manager 2012 is very flexible so you can do things whichever way works best for your company

 

cheers

niall