Within the ConfigMgr world there has been a lot of talk around software updates lately. Especially with all of the recent changes including the change to allow a ConfigMgr client to download updates from Microsoft over...
Tag - Software Updates
Jordan Benzing
How to back up a WSUS SQL database with PowerShell
Over the years I’ve worked with a few different organizations that all do SQL backups in different ways however I recently ran into a situation where there wasn’t a really great way to perform a SQL back up...
Send your patching manifest to Microsoft Teams
Every month when patches come out I have the annoying task of gathering up all of the patches that we will be releasing and sending out an e-mail with the list of all of the patches. Well, while I haven’t quite...
How to stay current on Windows Updates
Since the beginning of the year Microsoft has been making numerous changes to updates both before and after patch Tuesday. With all of the changes to patches its hard to know when those changes are made unless you are...
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
Add Additional Update Languages for Office 365 updates in ConfigMgr with PowerShell
Since ConfigMgr 1602 we’ve had the possibility to manage Office 365 clients. In this first iteration of the feature, we didn’t have support to specify additional update languages other than from what was...
Create Software Update Group Tool console extension for ConfigMgr
A few weeks ago I released a PowerShell script that would allow administrators to easily create a Software Update Group containing Software Updates defined between a specified date. This is a functionality that...
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...
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...