Re: Software Update Tool Feature Pack Question
From: Adam Welker [MSFT] (adamwel_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/19/04
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:20:13 -0700
The entire package would only be sent to the clients if you are using SMS
2003 and advanced clients and have the advertisement set to "download and
execute" This is not the default. By default only updates actually
authorized and detected as missing on the client are installed, the
installation taking place over the network.
You can create target collections by using queries based on missing updates
as this is HINV data.
-- Adam Welker This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Bob Banasik" <bbanasik@shermanfinancialgroup.com> wrote in message news:%23k5nmw8gEHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > All, > > I'm wondering if anyone else is wrestling with this issue. > > I have the SMS Software Update Tool Feature Pack pulling down update > information just fine. The reports that indicate who needs which patch > appear to be correct as well. The problem that I'm having is with targeting > computers for advertisements. What I don't want to do is bundle up a few > patches that are needed by say 10% of my machines and then advertise it to > all of them. Ideally I'd like to make a collection out of the report that > shows which machine needs a patch. This way I can target it to just those > machines that need it. > > This interest is born out of the desire to not overload the machines with > patches they don't need. My understanding is that the client will pull the > update down from the SMS server and then run throught the updates one by one > trying to apply them and only at that time determinet that they may not be > necessary. Say the patch is 2MB, but there are 10 versions for the various > OS releases. That means that the overall package size would be 20MB. Sending > 20MB to a bunch of machines unnecessarily is a tremendous waste of bandwidth > as well as CPU power. > > Is my understanding wrong? Does it not work this way? If my understanding is > correct where is the "right click on a report and export to a collection" > option? > > Thanks for your help, > > bb > >
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