Re: latest security updates not showing on the Wizard list

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From: Richard Threlkeld (pleasenospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:22:26 -0700

Yeah, I figured out where the miscommunication was. He stated to me:

"The only "problem" with doing an expedited scan is that it does a FULL
inventory and is meant / documented for lab environments only"

...and usually when someone says 'Full inventory' it means a full inventory
rather than normal HINV cycle which sends a delta MIF back to SMS, not an
entire cycle which would definitely be something that you didn't want. The
miscommunication was when he said to me "Full Inventory' which is different
than "Full Hardware Inventory Cycle" which is what the documentation says. 

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Richard Threlkeld
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"Adam Welker [MSFT]" <adamwel@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:#hSvDQ$IEHA.556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> The documentation means exactly what it says.  A full HINV cycle is
started
> when a change is detected to the Win32_Patchstate class in WMI and when
the
> expedited program is used.  This will do whatever a full HINV cycle on
that
> client would normally do.  If that is create a delta HINV record that's
all
> that gets created.  It could trigger a complete resync as well.  It just
> depends on what the client needs to do.
> The recommendation was made based on worst case scenarios and the whole
> section probably could be a lot clearer.
>
> --
> Adam Welker
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
>

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