Most of you already have knowledge about the power of SCUP used together with ConfigMgr. System Center Custom Updates (SCUP) gives you the possibilities to include 3rd. party updates in your normal Configuration Manager software update deployments. One of the downsizes to SCUP is that it requires high level of knowledge about each update you [...]

When configuring software updates with ConfigMgr. one of the challenges that I run into the most; is hiding software update notifications from some clients while allowing a full notification on other computers.
You can solve this challenge in two different ways.

Hide all software update deployments and create a package that will display notifications on [...]

As some of you might already be aware of; MS10-015 (KB977165) might cause a BSOD. As far as I have read the problem is not the update itself, but caused by an existing infection on the computer.  For updates on this issue be sure to check – http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/11/restart-issues-after-installing-ms10-015.aspx

Looking at the compliance reports I see that most of updates are installing ok but some are constantly saying “Waiting for another installation to complete”
The updates won’t install and end-users are constantly getting an error saying the another installation process is already running. It’s not another running process causing the problem, so restarting services won’t [...]

Adobe has just informed about a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9.2 and earlier versions  – which is well… all Adobe Reader versions An update to fix the vulnerability will be released mid January 2010.
You can read the bulletin here – http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-07.html
Disable Adobe Reader JavaScript manually
1. Launch Adobe Reader. [...]

Spending some time in other communities often gives me a lot of good ideas to reports and queries. A little while ago in the System Center Technet community I stumbled over a very need report created by a user called Qu4rk. His report shows a status of each update deployment, with a count of the [...]

From time to time you will need to remove one or more software updates from a deployment.
To remove the update from the deployment you can:

Identify the update by reviewing the updatesdeployment.log on one the clients. If the deployment process is visible, you can also identify the failure by looking at the Updates installation status. [...]

Having a list of all required updates can be very usefull. I this example I will create a search folder containing all required security updates.

Open the Config Mgr. console, navigate to Computer Management, Software Updates, Update Repository, Search Folders

Create a new search folder.
In the search folder [...]

When deploying Adobe Flash Player updates with SCUP 4.5 you might run into a few problems with the installation of the update. My work around to fix that is by creating the update from scratch. In this post I assume that you have a working SCUP 4.5 environment up and running. The update being deployed [...]

I just spend a day troubleshooting Software updates errors at a customer site and thought I would share my experiences.  The error codes are all found in the report Last scan state by collection

Error code on client
Solution

16398
If you search the web you will get many hits on this error. The solution is to apply this [...]