japijap Posted August 6, 2012 Report post Posted August 6, 2012 Due to the great tutorials on this site I could handle it to deploy Microsoft Updates.But my question atm is how to deploy software updates of non Microsoft applications? My former idea is, just to deinstall the older version od the app and install the newer one in case there is an update. Nowadays I have heard about the System Center Update Pubisher and I ask myself if it's worth to use it. It sounds pretty complicated. Has anyone some experiences with it and would you recommend it to use it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted August 6, 2012 Report post Posted August 6, 2012 It gives you some more work to publish the third party updates via SCUP to WSUS, but at the end it gives you one process for distributing updates, which means more control over your updates and compliance. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
japijap Posted August 6, 2012 Report post Posted August 6, 2012 Hi Peter, I know that I've posted my issue twice because I realised too late that there's also a SUP subforum. But I've already report that to the moderator!? Back to topic: I don't know if it does make sense to update my third party apps via SCUP because it seems pretty complicated to me and my network with around 100 devices. To mention is that all my devices will have exactly the same configuration and software. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted August 6, 2012 Report post Posted August 6, 2012 Well, it's small product which you can learn really quick, but I do have to say that for an environment that small it might not be worth the effort. It will be more a decisions whether you think you have enough control now, or that you think you need more control and a more stable process. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
japijap Posted August 6, 2012 Report post Posted August 6, 2012 As already mentioned I would create a task sequence to deinstall the old version and install the new one. I am just afraid of the workload if using SCUP for third parties update. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_B Posted August 7, 2012 Report post Posted August 7, 2012 There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's all pretty easy in the end and there are various blog posts about it that help. We have it configured and it doesn't need much time on a day-to-day basis. One other thing to consider is SCUPSYNC. It's a good way to auto import the updates and can be scheduled to run every night. There isn't much info about it around but it's pretty simple to do once you have the SCUP service running. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
japijap Posted August 7, 2012 Report post Posted August 7, 2012 Hi Matt_B, can you send me some links with the mentioned blogs? I can't find it anywhere. Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted August 7, 2012 Report post Posted August 7, 2012 Take a look here for a step-by-step pdf about SCUP 4.5: http://blog.coretech.dk/wp-content/uploads/10_SCCM_2007-_System_Center_Updates_Publisher_V1.1.pdf 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
japijap Posted August 8, 2012 Report post Posted August 8, 2012 Ok Thanks! But I guess I will avoid to use SCUP for my small size network. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
