On January 3rd Microsoft released a bunch of security updates around a hardware vulnerability found in the Intel chipset. Within hours of the patch coming out news outlets and more had exploded with information about...
Category - Software Updates
Jordan Benzing
How to use SMSProv.log to build reports
When working in ConfigMgr I frequently find information in the console is placed in inconvenient or inefficient locations especially when working with large chunks of information. Today I want to talk about a trick...
Patch Compliance Reporting in Configuration Manager with PowerBI
If you’ve done any work with System Center Configuration Manager sooner or later, you’ll get asked about leveraging it for patching. It might even be one of the first questions you get from management...
Clean Software Update Packages in ConfigMgr with PowerShell
Over time Software Update Packages (read Deployment Packages, but with a proper name) most of the time are filled with unwanted Software Updates if no regular maintenance is performed, leading to unwanted Software...
Nickolaj Andersen
Create a Software Update Group defined by date in ConfigMgr with PowerShell
As a ConfigMgr administrator, one of the main functionality that many of us are working with is Software Updates. Over time, I’ve eventually decided to automate many of the tasks involved in managing Software...
Updated Clean Software Update Groups script for ConfigMgr
Ever since I released the console extension for ConfigMgr to clean up Software Update Groups from expired and/or superseded Software Updates, many have given me lots of feedback and I’m now pleased to announce...
How to amend WSUS Scan Retry Error Codes list in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
In a situation where you’ve multiple Software Update Points in the same site spread across different domains where clients in a particular domain cannot access resources in another domain, you’d expect...
Clean Software Update Groups console extension for ConfigMgr 2012
A few months ago I created a script that would assist ConfigMgr admins with cleaning up their Software Update Groups from expired and superseded Software Updates. Although this script needed manual interaction by...
Remove expired and superseded updates from a Software Update Group with PowerShell
If you’re working with patch management in ConfigMgr 2012, you’ve most likely scratched your head about why there’s no simple way to remove the updates that have been expired or superseded. To help...
Create a Deployment Package in ConfigMgr 2012 with PowerShell
During a migration project at one of my customers, we needed to create a few Deployment Packages and wanted to do that with PowerShell. So I imported the ConfigMgr PowerShell module, and to my surprise I couldn’t...