All required software changes have already been made on this computer

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I have a really irritating issue with deploying updates to servers. I have set it to download but manually update so all patches are available and not required. Some of my servers have not been updated in a long time so they require lots of updates. When I want to install updates I click INSTALL ALL REQUIRED SOFTWARE then I get a pop up that says All software changes have already been made on this computer. There are no current changes required by your IT department. The udpates are sitting there in the software center but its like this button is broken. I have to click on each update and then INSTALL one at a time! This is completely unacceptable and a waste of my time to go through 50 servers and click a million times to install one damn update. If anyone knows what the problem is that would be great! Otherwise SCCM is useless when it comes to applying updates manually.

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I think the problem is that it is set to available and install all required is only for required updates? Might just have to go with maint windows but this is retarded. There should be a button to install all Available software. If I do required they always install automatically which we don't want. We want to manually install updates and do a slow rollout. I really don't want to manage a bunch of different maint windows just because I can't install all updates at once on one server manually.

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Guess I will have to use required and set a deadline for a few years so they don't install automatically. I don't see any other way around it and if there is an update we don't want it can be removed from the update template. What a pain for such a simple task.