Tay Posted October 31, 2012 Report post Posted October 31, 2012 I have my workstations fully compliant with software updates and have moved on to servers. We want to be able to download updates but manually install them. The only way I could get this to work is by setting the install deadline to 2015 or something. Otherwise it just installs updates automatically which we don't want in our datacenter. It appears SCCM overrides the GPO setting of Auto Download and Notify for Install. I was curious how everyone else is patching servers using SCCM 2012. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted November 1, 2012 Report post Posted November 1, 2012 patching servers is usually done with the help of maintenance windows (on the collections), by using maintenance windows you decide when the servers get updated.. for manually patching them, adjust the schedule on the deployment and make the deployment available and Do Not Set a Deadline for software update installation.. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted November 1, 2012 Report post Posted November 1, 2012 Thanks for responding anyweb. I set my deployment schedule to As soon as possible but that just sets the deadline to the time of deployment. Updates are still installing automatically and I don't see a way to not have a deadline. What am I missing? THanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted November 1, 2012 Report post Posted November 1, 2012 is the deployment available or required ? show me what the servers see in software center for the updates.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted November 1, 2012 Report post Posted November 1, 2012 Under deployment settings it is set to required and its greyed out so I can't change it to available. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted November 1, 2012 Report post Posted November 1, 2012 Got it! It appears ADR's will not let you select available. Looks like I have to create a Software Update Group instead. Thanks anyweb for pointing me in the right direction. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted November 1, 2012 Report post Posted November 1, 2012 great ! and yes that's a feature of ADR's currently, perhaps it'll change in the future who knows so to sum up, if you want to manually patch the servers create a Software Update Group containing the updates you want to target to your servers and deploy it as Available. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
