System Center Updates Publisher 2011

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We have released System Center Updates Publisher 2011 to the web today. This release was primarily driven by customer feedback over the past year. It all started last year at MMS (2010) where we got a lot of great feedback regarding the existing product. Out of that feedback a plan was created to greatly improve the product for both customers and partners. Updates Publisher 2011 is packed full of new features and additions with just a few of them listed below.

 

New in System Center Updates Publisher 2011

 

•Simpler setup with no database installation

•An improved user interface that allows better control of managing software updates

•Improved applicability rule authoring experience

•Improved performance when importing and managing software updates

•The ability to create software update bundles

•The ability to define prerequisite and superseded updates as part of a software update definition

•A new “Automatic” publication type with which Updates Publisher 2011 can query Configuration Manager to determine whether the selected software updates should be published with full content or only metadata

•A new Software Update Cleanup Wizard that you can use to expire software updates that exist on the update server, but are not in the Updates Publisher 2011 repository

To download and learn more about SCUP from TechCenter visit here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/bb741049.aspx

 

via > http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2011/05/24/system-center-updates-publisher-2011.aspx

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Included Catalogs with 2011 are:

 

Dell

HP , firmware, software, proliant support packs

Adobe, flash, reader, acrobat.

 

Shavlik.com SCUPdates - Trial & Paid subscription for multiple include JAVA.

 

I tested the shavlik.cab from here - http://www.shavlik.com/assets/docs/ShavlikTrial.cab, at moment it just seems to contain Adobe Flash Player 10

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Install Guide

 

Download SCUP 2011 - here

 

Open a CMD prompt as Admin

 

Change to the folder the msi is in and run it.

 

Click NEXT

 

If .Net 4.0 is not installed it will give you option to download and install before continuing.

Next you are asked to download a hotfix for WSUS Servers.

Install the Microsoft WSUS 3.0 SP2 hotfix as suggested on all your WSUS servers in your SCCM environment and the SCUP 2011 server.

Follow the prompts to complete install.

 

 

Launch SCUP 2011

 

Open SCUP with "run As Admin" and click the upper left drop down menu, choose options.

 

Enable "Enable publishing to an update server" and select Local or remote WSUS Server.

Click on "Test Connection"

 

Now we need to create a certificate. Click Create .

 

Export the self-signed certificate through the certificates MMC snapin, found in the Computer account >> WSUS >> Certificates

 

Right-Click on the WSUS self-signed certificate and select All Tasks >> Export.

Follow the wizard to save the cert.

 

Import this cert Update Servers and your SCUP server in the following Stores:

- Trusted Publishers

- Trusted Root Certification Authorities

 

GPO Edit

You also need to enable the group policy option "Allow signed content from intranet Microsoft update service location".

Select the top level default domain policy and make the change under Computer --> Admin Templates - Windows Components -> Windows Update

 

[Note : to be confirmed the WSUS-self-signed-cert may need to be deployed to clients also - use GPO for this too]