ADR/Software Updates - Filter Criteria on title string

Hello,
i want to filter software updates in the "all software updates" list or in an automatic deployment rule.
let's start with the all software updates list. example, i want all win7 updates 64bit, but no media center updates
a logical query would be:
Product: Windows 7
Title: contains "x64" AND does not contain "Media Center"
this seems to be impossile in the SCCM2012 interface as i can't change "OR" to "AND", so i am stuck with "title contains x64 or does not contain media". naturally, all available updates fall in this search criteria, making it useless.
is there a solution for this?
second try, this time in an automatic deployment rule - here i have more options, as i can add several query strings to the list. the informational message states that strings can be put in quotes for exact matches, and prefixed with
a minus symbol for exclusions. so an example filter criteria to get all x86 windows 7 updates EXCLUDING internet explorer 8 and 9 patches would look like:
again, this does not work - the result includes all x64 updates for win7, completely ignoring my -"x64" statement, it also includes all IE8 updates - no idea how this criteria is translated in the background to an sql query, in any case, it fails to give
me the result i want.
is there any solution for this?

unfortunately, even question 2 is not fully solved.
the filter strings i can put for title filtering are all combined with OR and this is a problem.
e.g. i want to show only .net framework updates for x64 systems.
when i put these filters:
x64
-Beta
Microsoft .NET Framework
i get "x64 OR -Beta OR Microsoft .NET Framework" resulting in a list that contains all x64 .net AND windows 7 updates
when i put these filters:
x64
-Beta
-Microsoft .NET Framework
i get "x64 OR -Beta OR -Microsoft .NET Framework" resulting in only x64 windows 7 updates
when i use these filters:
-Beta
Microsoft .NET Framework % x64
i get "-Beta OR Microsoft .NET Framework % x64" resulting in what i want (all .net updates for x64 systems)
so yes, i found a way to put the filters how i want them, but not beeing able to change the AND and ORs in the query, and the confusing way the negation sign is working in OR statements, make it a bit frustrating. and if the % wildcard wouldn't work i would
be without a solution at all.

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How to use AND in stead of OR at the Software Updates search criteria: Article ID.

When I try to filter out some KB's it is working for the first one (KB2124261), but when I want to filter out more than one it is not working as the 2. time you add the Article ID it is added as "OR" but should be "AND". I have tried
to write more than one article ID in the first one, but no matter if I separated by ; , . - / & space etc. it won't work.
Anyone knows the correct format to use or if there is another way around it?
/ESK

I don't think there is a way to get AND. This would be a good feature request for
http://connect.microsoft.com.
You can however pull the same information from PowerShell using the native cmdlets, just leverage Get-CMSoftwareUpdate.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrdogs/archive/2014/08/08/powershell-script-to-list-software-updates-in-a-software-update-group.aspx
Daniel Ratliff | http://www.PotentEngineer.com

What Software Update package should I make?

Is there one Software Update search/criteria I can make that
will ensure computers that maybe haven't had updates in over a year are updated?
Updates would be for Windows 7 64 bit and Office 2010 32 bit
Just curious what others are using or what I should try in my case..?
Which search/criteria/filter should I create in SCCM to deploy to the Windows 7 computers?
And how could I also integrate that into an OSD Task Sequence if possible?

It also depends on the Update Classification. In most cases I use at least the following criteria:
Expired, Superseded, Product and
Update Classification. Do keep in mind that it won't filter the x64 or the x86 updates, you either have to do that manually or just leave them in (they won't get installed when they're not applicable).
You can integrate them in your OS deployment by deploying the updates to a collection that includes the machines during the deployment and by including the
Install Software Updates step.
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Should I add "Bulletin ID" and criteria is Starts with "MS"?
Or will that leave out other updates that would keep it out of compliance?

Is there any way to prevent non-admin user accounts to receive software update prompts?

I am the admin account user on our MacBook Pro, and there is one standard user account on it as well. Generally we are both logged on so we can quickly switch between user accounts and 'spin the desktop'.
For some reason, all the software update notifications seem to be received when the standard user account is the active one.
I know that the standard user cannot actually update without my account password and my Apple ID, but a) The notifications confuse the non-admin user, and she gets flustered, and b) Even if she manages to cancel them from the notification area, she then has to remember to tell me verbally that she had had one.
Is there any way to stop her receiving the update notifications altogether?
Running OS X 10.8.2 on MacBook Pro.
Thanks in advance.

You should be able to do this by unchecking the software update service in the system preferences to prevent the system from running the check as the "_softwareupate" user and passing it to the notification service that broadcasts to all user accounts. Then you can check for the software update in an admin account using the following Terminal line:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/SoftwareUpdateCheck -Check YES
This line can be scripted via Terminal services to run on a schedule (ie, every few hours), and if there are found updates it will launch the App Store for that account and present them. Granted this approach circumvents the notification service, but should work. To try this, open TextEdit on your computer and in a new document choose "Make Plain Text" from the Format menu.
Then copy and paste the following text into the new document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>Label</key>
          <string>local.softwareupdatecheck</string>
          <key>ProgramArguments</key>
          <array>
                    <string>/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/SoftwareUpdateCheck</string>
                    <string>-Check</string>
                    <string>YES</string>
          </array>
          <key>StartInterval</key>
          <integer>21600</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
When done, save the document to your desktop as "softwareupdatecheck.plist" or anything as long as it ends with ".plist." Then get information on the file in the Finder to ensure its name ends with plist and not anything else like "plist.txt" (rename it accordingly in the Info window's "Name & Extension" section.
With the file name appropriate, hold the Option key and choose the "Library" option in the Finder's "Go" menu. Then locate the folder called "Launch Agents" in the library and drag the text file to this folder. Then log out and log back into your account.
This text file is a launch agent script that instructs the system to run the program arguments every 21600 seconds (6 hours) whenever the user is logged in. The program arguments here are simply those to check for software updates for the system. You can change this time interval to be any number of seconds you would like, but there are other options to use besides the "StartInterval" key for scheduling the task. This approach simply has it repeat every number of seconds, but you can use other options to have it only run on specific hours or days, or only have it run once when you log in, etc.
If this works for you, then if you'd like to explore these other options write back here and we can go over them for you.

Software Updates ADR Issue: "Failed to download the update from the internet. Error = 5"

"Failed to download the update from internet. Error = 5"
The above is the error I am getting when running any ADR. The error is quite clear software updates are failing to download and Error = 5 being a permissions error its clear that the downloads are failing due to incorrect permissions applied to the download
path.
Here is the last bit of my ruleengine.log, everything above is the same except for the update trying to be downloaded of course:
Failed to download the update from internet. Error = 5
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:21:59 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Failed to download ContentID 16860969 for UpdateID 16857152. Error code = 5
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:21:59 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Downloading contents (count = 1) for UpdateID 16857255
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:21:59 AM
5148 (0x141C)
List of update content(s) which match the content rule criteria = {16861141}
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:21:59 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Downloading content with ID 16861141 in the package
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:21:59 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Failed to download the update from internet. Error = 5
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Failed to download ContentID 16861141 for UpdateID 16857255. Error code = 5
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Failed to download any update SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
Failed to download update contents. SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
No new update was added to the package. Package "SCP0008A" would not be updated.
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Failed to run the DownloadAction for the AutoDeployment.
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
STATMSG: ID=8706 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_RULE_ENGINE" SYS=SCCM-MPS.DSCICORP.COM SITE=SCP PID=2376 TID=5148 GMTDATE=Thu Jun 26 13:22:00.164 2014 ISTR0="SMS Rule Engine" ISTR1="Failed to download one or more
content files" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Enforcing Create Deployment Action SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
Create Deployment Rule Action XML is: <DeploymentCreationActionXML xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><CollectionId>SCP00055</CollectionId><IncludeSub>true</IncludeSub><Utc>false</Utc><Duration>0</Duration><DurationUnits>Hours</DurationUnits><AvailableDeltaDuration>0</AvailableDeltaDuration><AvailableDeltaDurationUnits>Hours</AvailableDeltaDurationUnits><SuppressServers>Checked</SuppressServers><SuppressWorkstations>Unchecked</SuppressWorkstations><PersistOnWriteFilterDevices>Unchecked</PersistOnWriteFilterDevices><AllowRestart>true</AllowRestart><DisableMomAlert>false</DisableMomAlert><GenerateMomAlert>false</GenerateMomAlert><UseRemoteDP>true</UseRemoteDP><UseUnprotectedDP>true</UseUnprotectedDP><UseBranchCache>true</UseBranchCache><EnableDeployment>true</EnableDeployment><EnableWakeOnLan>true</EnableWakeOnLan><AllowDownloadOutSW>false</AllowDownloadOutSW><AllowInstallOutSW>true</AllowInstallOutSW><EnableAlert>true</EnableAlert><AlertThresholdPercentage>90</AlertThresholdPercentage><AlertDuration>7</AlertDuration><AlertDurationUnits>Days</AlertDurationUnits><EnableNAPEnforcement>false</EnableNAPEnforcement><UserNotificationOption>DisplaySoftwareCenterOnly</UserNotificationOption><LimitStateMessageVerbosity>false</LimitStateMessageVerbosity><StateMessageVerbosity>10</StateMessageVerbosity><AllowWUMU>true</AllowWUMU><AllowUseMeteredNetwork>true</AllowUseMeteredNetwork></DeploymentCreationActionXML>
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Rule XML is: <AutoDeploymentRule xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><DeploymentName>Test ADR</DeploymentName><DeploymentDescription>Test ADR</DeploymentDescription><LocaleId>1033</LocaleId><UseSameDeployment>false</UseSameDeployment><EnableAfterCreate>true</EnableAfterCreate><NoEULAUpdates>false</NoEULAUpdates><AlignWithSyncSchedule>false</AlignWithSyncSchedule><ScopeIDs><ScopeID>SMS00UNA</ScopeID></ScopeIDs></AutoDeploymentRule>
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Criteria Filter Result XML is: <AutoDeploymentRule xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><DeploymentName>Test ADR</DeploymentName><DeploymentDescription>Test
ADR</DeploymentDescription><LocaleId>1033</LocaleId><UseSameDeployment>false</UseSameDeployment><EnableAfterCreate>true</EnableAfterCreate><NoEULAUpdates>false</NoEULAUpdates><AlignWithSyncSchedule>false</AlignWithSyncSchedule><ScopeIDs><ScopeID>SMS00UNA</ScopeID></ScopeIDs></AutoDeploymentRule>
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Parsing Deployment Action XML...
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
Parsing Rule XML... SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
Could not find element DeploymentId SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
Could not find element UpdateGroupId SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
Could not find element UpdateGroupName SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
SQL is: select cis.CI_ID from vCI_ConfigurationItems cis join vProvisionedCIs pci on cis.CI_ID = pci.CI_ID where cis.CI_ID in (16793068, 16793070, 16793441, 16793445, 16793531, 16793686, 16793688, 16794597, 16794600, 16794602, 16794604, 16795443,
16795445, 16795709, 16795711, 16796210, 16796222, 16796292, 16796298, 16799495, 16799503, 16799602, 16799700, 16799703, 16799705, 16799712, 16799718, 16800300, 16800302, 16800367, 16800369, 16800371, 16800375, 16801224, 16801227, 16801237, 16801239, 16801287,
16801289, 16801559, 16801566, 16801996, 16802034, 16802839, 16802841, 16803306, 16803310, 16803420, 16803422, 16806477, 16806479, 16809354, 16809360, 16809393, 16809397, 16809774, 16809786, 16809792, 16813338, 16813348, 16813636, 16813638, 16814948, 16814950,
16815151, 16815153, 16817088, 16817102, 16817108, 16817398, 16817400, 16818677, 16818691, 16825397, 16840448, 16840458, 16840460, 16840462, 16840690, 16840700, 16840702, 16840710, 16840824, 16840826, 16842640, 16842641, 16842802, 16842803, 16842841, 16842870,
16842871, 16842896, 16842917, 16843017, 16843042, 16843049, 16843051, 16845981, 16846404, 16846751, 16846757, 16848017, 16848021, 16848664, 16848687, 16849383, 16849385, 16852506, 16852514, 16852516, 16855484, 16857102, 16857151, 16857152, 16857255) order
by cis.CI_ID SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
0 of 115 updates are downloaded and will be added to the Deployment.
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
The rule resulted in no updates being found. Skip deployment creation or update...
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
CRuleHandler: Enforcing Actions for Rule 16777228 failed!
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
CRuleHandler: ResetRulesAndCleanUp() SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
Updated Failure Information for Rule: 16777228
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM
5148 (0x141C)
CRuleHandler: Deleting Rule 16777228 SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:00 AM 5148 (0x141C)
Found notification file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\RuleEngine.box\16777228.RUL
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:10 AM
5148 (0x141C)
RuleSchedulerThred: Change in Rules Object Signalled.
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:10 AM
5228 (0x146C)
Refreshed ScheduleList instance for Rule (16777228) from schedule string () with next occurence (12/31/1969 7:00:00 PM)
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:10 AM
5228 (0x146C)
FindNextEventTime found next event for RuleID 0 as :1/1/2038 12:00:00 AM
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:10 AM
5228 (0x146C)
RuleEngine: Got next rule execution time successfully. Next event is in 12369097 minutes
SMS_RULE_ENGINE 6/26/2014 9:22:10 AM
5228 (0x146C)
Sleeping for 15 minutes SMS_RULE_ENGINE
6/26/2014 9:22:10 AM 5228 (0x146C)
Also, I do not have a patchdownloader.log anywhere, Ive checked all aforementioned locations from various sources and it just simply does not exist on my SCCM server. Here is my setup:
Server1: Primary server with all roles installed locally except the site database is on its own server. WSUS is installed locally here and DB is stored here.
Server2: SQL DB for Primary site DB
Server3: Secondary remote site running MP, DP, SUP. DB is SQL Express local.
So the SUP role was installed successfully on both server1 first and server 2 second with the site servers accounts. The SUP Synchronizes successfully and I can see a large list of updates available for use but not downloaded of course. I have set WSUS option
to store updates locally and have plenty of space at the target destination.
So here is my issue, I have been working on this issue for the better part of a week and understand the error code from the ruleengine.log to be a permissions issue. I have also proved this out but creating a test ADR with minimal updates and applied NTFS perms
to the target path for Modify with the everyone group (testing purposes only). The updates downloaded successfully. So this puts me right back to where I was, knowing its a permissions issue but not understanding what permissions are needed. Let me explain
further.
The best way to start is to show what perms I have to the target location for downloads/wsus/sup anything:
Path: \\Server1\UpdatesAndDefinitions (permissions being applied to the UpdatesAndDefinitions root folder)
SCCMAdmin (account used for most SCCM tasks except for NA) / Modify / Share and NTFS
Server1$ (primary site server) / Modify / NTFS
Everyone / read and execute / NTFS and Share
There are other system generated perms but the above three are the important ones. So hence my confusion I know that the SCCMAdmin account or the Server its self has to be accessing the target directory so why is it failing with a permissions issue?
My next step was to enable Auditing on the target path. Doing so revealed just what I thought and through me into further frustration:
A network share object was accessed.
Subject:
Security ID:
SYSTEM
Account Name:
SCCM-MPS$
Account Domain:
DSCI
Logon ID:
0x3e7
Network Information:
Source Address:
fe80::306a:8827:8672:3ba5
Source Port:
50329
Share Name: \\*\UpdatesAndDefinitions
A handle to an object was requested.
Subject:
Security ID:
DSCI\sccmadmin
Account Name:
sccmadmin
Account Domain:
DSCI
Logon ID:
0xad903c
Object:
Object Server:
Security
Object Type:
File
Object Name:
F:\UpdatesAndDefinitions
Handle ID:
0xf5c
Process Information:
Process ID:
0x10cc
Process Name:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Access Request Information:
Transaction ID:
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
Accesses:
READ_CONTROL
ReadAttributes
Access Mask:
0x20080
Privileges Used for Access Check:
Restricted SID Count:
0
Now I may not be the best I traversing through the mess of audit entry's and translating them, but from what I can see the two accounts that have the proper share and ntsf perms ive listed above are indeed the ones accessing the target location and the audit
code is success. I filter for failures and found no audits for failures whatsoever yet my downloads still fail religiously, unless of course I open myself up with the everyone group.
So next... I tried adding in the Network Service account with proper permissions, the Local Service Account, my user account, and all no go's.
Next... I remove the SUP roles from SCCM checked the logs for deinstall confirmations, and reinstalled these roles. No Go!
If anyone can assist I would be in your debt and very grateful.
Oh last note, but very important note I'm running SCCM 2012 SP1 CU4
Thanks,
Michael
MichaelSpaulding

I just tested with the everyone group further; I added everyone with modify for ntfs and just read only for share and downloads failed!
I then changed the share perms for everyone to change and the ntfs to read/execute and poof downloads complete! Obviously change share perms for everyone leaves me open which Id like to prevent, so finding what account is being used is crucial.
I have already tried adding all of the SCCM accounts I use and the servers themselves as change perms to share and ntfs and have not had any luck.
MichaelSpaulding

Software Updates, multiple SAME search criteria ?

Hi
Does anyone know if you can have multiple SAME Software Update Search search criteria?
For example if I add the same search criteria twice I will get the OR and not
AND criteria that I want. How would I go about doing that?

Same question as the original poster. What I'm trying to do is setup a search to work like this:
Bulletin ID contains "MS"
AND Expired No
AND Title does not contain "Itanium"
AND Title does not contain "IA64"
Using the default "OR" ends up showing both of the criteria that I am trying to filter out
Can you just add multiple lines of text with some sort of delimiter on the filter line? I've tried , and ; but neither work

ADR Removes updates from existing Software Update Group

I'm working on using SCCM for Software Updates, was previously only using WSUS. I think I've got everything configured and I can deploy updates successfully. So now I'm working on automating things with some ADRs. The problem I'm running into is that I'm
trying to set the ADR to add updates to an existing group. Office 2007 updates in this example. I have the search criteria in the ADR set to look for Office 2007 updates released in the last 30 days and it is set to run once a month.
So in my mind, each month it will run and add the necessary updates to the existing group, and the group will become a cumulative list. The problem I'm having is that every time the rule runs, it seems to remove all the existing updates from that
group and only add in the updates that were returned for that run. For example, I can set the rule to search for updates released in the last 60 days and will see 15 updates in the group. If I change the rule to search for updates released in the
last 30 days and run it again, the group will only have 10 updates in it. Or if I manually add updates to the group and then run the rule again, the updates I manually added are removed. None of these are expired or superseded. Any ideas?

The spirit of the statement is more or less correct, but as it applies to this scenario it is not. To the clients, nothing has changed. The update is part of the update group before and after. Thus, the client only knows about the newly added updates thus
there really is no client side processing churn except for the newly added updates. As for the SQL processing, that's what SQL does well -- that's the whole point of using a enterprise class RDBMS. Tip-toeing around SQL, particularly for a process that only
happens once a month, is (sorry) silly. Now, if you were to do this everyday, then yes, that's bad. Once a month, it's trivial. Do of course make sure you have a good SQL maintenance plan in place that includes re-indexing and rebuilding statistics (not the
built-in maintenance task).
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

Software update error - Package Authoring: my.result.title ...

Hi,
I updated three SL servers to 10.6.7 and now install.log in all three systems are filled with an error message "Package Authoring: my.result.title and my.result.message not defined or empty". And when checking for new software updates using Server Admin - Server Updates the following error also written into the install log file: Software Update[]: Can't load distribution from (null): Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1000 UserInfo=0x1001805d0 "bad URL" Underlying Error=(Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1000 UserInfo=0x100637640 "bad URL")
Has anybody seen this before?
Searching for ideas to fix this problem.
Best Regards, Heimo

On one of my MacMini Server 10.6.7
I'm also seeing a string of these entries in my machines.
5/17/11 5:59:25 AM Software Update[30234] Package Authoring: my.result.title and my.result.message not defined or empty
Typically I get about 25 of them in a block and then
5/17/11 5:59:28 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.suhelperd[30235]) Exited with exit code: 2
All in about 10 seconds.
This happens once a day at about the same time...
This is a not so busy MacMini Server that is providing Software Updates to clients ...
I also appear to see this on the client side of a SnowLeopard Clients....
so perhaps it is not a server error at all... But it does appear to be Software Update related.... In my case, I have an internal, local Software Update Server.

ADR and Software Updates

I've finally began to understand how to use software updates for our image rather then doing offline imaging of my wim. I have a ADR that runs every Wednesday after patch Tuesday. My question is each time the rule runes, should I be creating a new software
update group or updating the existing group? How do I set it up so that I do not download the same updates and create multiple large software update groups?
My setup for Windows 7 ADR
Language: "English"
Product: "Windows 7"
Severity: "Critical" OR "Important" OR "Moderate"
Superseded: No

I would suggest that you use the template "Patch Tuesday". Basically you also add the criteria "Released of Revised in the last X Days" and then enter something like 1 day.
Tim Nilimaa-Svärd | Blog: http://infoworks.tv | Twitter: @timnilimaa
I was looking at this template, but did not understand it. When I choose it and hit Preview, nothing is listed making it seem that it doesn't find anything.

Filter Failed Message after HP software update

My old HP deskjet 932C printer now gets a "filter failed" message since the HP software update. I can't print documents. Any suggestions?

Go to System Preferences, Printers and Scanners. Select your printer that's not working and delete it (hit minus sign). Restart your computer. Go back to Printers and Scanners and add printer. I had same problem this morning with HP 932C and this solved the problem for me.

SCCM Software Update's / ADR questions

Hello Technet/SCCM community,
after much scratching of the ol' noggin and lots of internet searches I have been left with a handful of questions regarding SCCM 2012 SP1 and its Software Update Point functionality with emphasis on Automatic Deployment Rules.
1.When creating an ADR if one ADR's updates are the same as another ADR's updates how can we avoid storing/downloading duplicates? Can I store the updates in the same folder and will SCCM be smart enough to share the updates rather than having two copies?
note: one way around the above would be to separate updates into different ADR's, here is my issue with this method: lets say I have one ADR for Win7 updates and one for Office2013/Silverlight etc. Now Im deploying multiple packages to machines causes a
larger update window and possible multiple restarts. So lets say I suppress the restarts, well when users get around to it they will still see the updates being applied and per our policy we have one window to push these and when we wander from the norm users
minds break. i.e. I don't want multiple ADR's deployed to the machines a month and I do not want to suppress restarts.
2. Is there no way to only download the metadata of these updates? Currently updates for my environment are eating up 80 gigs of hard drive space. 40 gigs to the download location which then gets duplicated to the content library which sets me up for my
next question: Why are these updates in both locations essentially doubling the HD space you need for updates. My content library grows gig for gig with my SUP updates store.
3. Scenario: I deploy updates month 1, 100 updates are downloaded and deployed and update group entry is created. Next month I deploy again this time 50 updates are downloaded and deployed, update group 2 created. Questions: Now if I delete update group
1 and do not have a date released or revised rule will the next deploy grab update group 1's updates again? In other words should I always leave the update groups in SCCM so it knows what updates have been deployed and wont download those updates again. And
finally if I should leave the update groups can I still delete the updates from the folder freeing up space but still allowing SCCM to know whats been deployed?
4. Does anyone have an essential Windows 7 workstation updates ADR build they can share. For Workstations I like to deploy everything they need in one ADR, Office 2013, Silverlight, SCEP, and WIN7. So far Ive never come close to the 1000 limit. Server ADR's
are a different story.
MichaelSpaulding

I appreciate your clarification of an ADR, I understand what it does and doesn't do, I'm simply using the term ADR to cover the subjects I'm discussing.
This piece of your response answers my questions in full and is very helpful.
"You can use the "Period of time for which all pending deployments with deadline in this time will also
be installed" setting on the Software Updates tab to group deployments together that have slightly different deadline times; however, Office 2013 and SCEP updates generally don't require a reboot."
I had previously set the deadline/restart window to "as soon as possible", I will utilize
the above to resolve my issues with my ADR deployments and I will also use the below for how I group updates.
"I generally configure an ADR for all workstation OS updates, one for Office, one for Server updates,
and one for SCEP. These all reference the exact same update package which I then change on a periodic basis like every 6-12 months. I also create new update groups month for each of these (except SCEP defs)."
Thanks great stuff Jason:)
MichaelSpaulding

IMac OS 10.9.4 software updates apparent cause of Corel Painter X3 crash: I have run Disk Utility - no probs there, reinstalled Painter X3 (after first uninstalling X3). What now?

iMac 10.9.4 software updates last week is apparent cause of my Corel Painter X3 now crashing. I ran Disk Utility check - no probs there. I reinstalled Painter X3 (after first uninstalling X3), still no success. Online Mac support suggest I use MacCleaner - tried at online Mac store & was referred to 0800 tech support for guidance - still waiting for reply.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the name of the crashed application or process. For example, if iTunes crashed, you would enter "iTunes" (without the quotes.)
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, select
          DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ User Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of crash reports. The name of each report starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report related to the process in question. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a crash, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report—they're very long and rarely helpful.

After Software Updates, Safari 6.1.1 can't open pages

I'm running 10.7.5, and installed the recommmended software updates an hour ago. They included an update to Java and a new version of iTunes, and a number of other things, though I don't recall that a new version of Safari was among them.
Afterwards, Safari tries to open but cannot even show the windows it is trying to open (that were open when it last ran). I can look at them by using the dock "Show all windows", and the tab titles are there, but nothing opens. Spinning beach ball.
Happily I have Firefox on my MBP 2011, so I can get here to ask this question. Always have two strings to your bow.
The Console report does show an install of Safari 6.1.1 at the time of the software update, and I have Diagnostic reports for the crashes of Safari since then but they do not mean much to me. I cannot locate a standalone version of Safari 6.1.1 in order to reinstall it.
Advice?

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report — they're very long and not helpful.

All Software update groups expired

Hi,
Please see http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/39b60e34-f30a-4963-a08b-6a8e13e44b91/software-update-groups-grey-icon-with-x-?forum=configmanagersecurity
for reference.
We created update lists for Windows 7 with Office, automatic updates for SCEP, they all are expired (Expired icon of “http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848254.aspx). I don’t want them to expire. I want to make sure every new
OS will get the latest updates + antivirus updates.
Not sure if this is by design, an error on SCCM (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0c13c27d-55a9-4f56-8ac0-f9053301ab0c/all-updates-in-sccm-software-updates-are-set-to-expire?forum=configmgrsum=>
my SCUP is there) or there is some misconfiguration.
Please advise. J.
Jan Hoedt

Jan,
> *Can you help me with this mechanism, I'm not familiar with it?
While viewing the updates that are a member of the software updates group, either sort by the "Expired" column or filter by Expired = Yex. Select all expired updates, right click, and select 'Edit Membership". Uncheck the checkbox for the software
update groups you are trying to remove them from.
> *I seem to remember there was somewhere an option that mentioned expired
This option has to do with how long 'superseded' updates will remain available for deployment. You can set under Administration > Site Configuration > Sites. Right click on your site and select Configure Site Components > Software Update
Point. The setting is on the "Supersedence Rules" tab.
However, Microsoft will also directly expire updates from time to time as well. In general, this is normal and something you shouldn't worry about managing. When the update has been expired by Microsoft, it is something you couldn't install even
by going to Windows Update, so you shouldn't worry trying to deploy them. Instead, deploy the current updates instead of superseded ones.
>How can I automate this (not automatically apply but using manually which updates to use and deploy at times I choose)?
For organizations with very simple Software Update processes, you could use an Automatic Deployment Rule to select updates based on a criteria, download the content to a deployment package, add the updates to a software update group, and create a deployment
to a collection. That deployment can be 'available' and not required if you plan to hand install them later.
This documentation gives you an overview of how all the Software Update Management features work:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682168.aspx#BKMK_DeploymentWorkflows
And this blog post gives an example of using an ADR:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrdogs/archive/2012/05/08/configmgr-2012-automatic-deployment-rules.aspx
I hope that helps,
Nash
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Sccm 2012 R2 Software update problem

Hi,
I have 3 ADR's ADRWin7-1, ADRWin7-2 and ADRWin7-3
All three Run on Second tuesday of the month and has common Package. All three ADR's create a new group every time they run.
Schedule :
ADRWin7-1 Deployes patches to Phase1 collection on 2nd Tuesday
ADRWin7-2 Deployes Patches to Phase2 collection after 7 days of 2nd Tuesday
ADRWin7-3 Deployes Patches to Phase3 collection after 14 days of 2nd Tuesday.
Problem :
ADRWin7-1 works fine. PC's in Phase1 gets the patches without any problem. But Phase2 and Phase3 PC's are not getting the patches. I have moved PC from Phase1 to Phase2 collection, same problem. When in Phase1 collection it gets the patches and when moved
to Phase2, it does not.
Not much info from logs : (Sample logs)
WUAHangler.log :
Successfully completed scan. WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:43 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Scan results will include superseded updates only when they are superseded by service packs and definition updates. WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:43 PM 4488 (0x1188)
Search Criteria is ((DeploymentAction=* AND Type='Software' AND CategoryIDs contains 'BFE5B177-A086-47A0-B102-097E4FA1F807')) WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:43 PM 4488 (0x1188)
Async searching of updates using WUAgent started. WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:43 PM 4488 (0x1188)
Async searching completed. WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:55 PM 3708 (0x0E7C)
Successfully completed scan. WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:56 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Scan results will include superseded updates only when they are superseded by service packs and definition updates. WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:57 PM 4548 (0x11C4)
Search Criteria is ((DeploymentAction=* AND Type='Software' AND CategoryIDs contains 'BFE5B177-A086-47A0-B102-097E4FA1F807')) WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:57 PM 4548 (0x11C4)
Async searching of updates using WUAgent started. WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:57 PM 4548 (0x11C4)
Async searching completed. WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:03:04 PM 2608 (0x0A30)
Successfully completed scan. WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:03:05 PM 968 (0x03C8)
CWuaHandler::SetCategoriesForStateReportingExclusion called with E0789628-CE08-4437-BE74-2495B842F43B;E0789628-CE08-4437-BE74-2495B842F43B,A38C835C-2950-4E87-86CC-6911A52C34A3; for leaves and E0789628-CE08-4437-BE74-2495B842F43B,A38C835C-2950-4E87-86CC-6911A52C34A3;
for bundles WUAHandler 8/15/2014 5:18:35 PM 4256 (0x10A0)
UpdatesHandler.log
Initiating updates scan for checking applicability. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:22 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Initiating updates scan for checking applicability. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:22 PM 3388 (0x0D3C)
Successfully initiated scan. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:22 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Successfully initiated scan. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:22 PM 3388 (0x0D3C)
Initiating updates scan for checking applicability. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:22 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Successfully initiated scan. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:22 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Initiating updates scan for checking applicability. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:22 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Successfully initiated scan. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:22 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Updates scan completion received, result = 0x0. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:41 PM 3388 (0x0D3C)
Updates scan completion received, result = 0x0. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:42 PM 4488 (0x1188)
Updates scan completion received, result = 0x0. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:43 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Updates scan completion received, result = 0x0. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:02:57 PM 3388 (0x0D3C)
Updates scan completion received, result = 0x0. UpdatesHandler 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 1336 (0x0538)
UpdatesStore.log
Update status from update (f61b102e-ce91-4086-94d0-fb199d7ce5ee) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (f6a9dfd6-91f2-449f-aef9-0d7f5f801d03) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (f7583494-fffa-4e41-99bc-1e4958f752f9) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (f76f5a9c-8325-4256-a632-654f153704b4) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (f802bfe3-9553-4542-bd1d-bdca38ff645c) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (f90253be-d178-4681-8ca9-71ac186b31f6) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (f92c8766-da08-4e0d-841d-1f36d3270cd3) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (f9ff6d98-1a01-437e-8728-f29cb8c71b13) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (fa090999-3b89-4dd1-82b2-6e16b0841e24) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (fbc9a192-a1d6-4008-8ea6-cd497b8b8668) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (fc7e731b-f4c9-44af-aaa8-952a614b4a64) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (fca3e05e-3bc0-4291-a675-9769042c9594) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (fda58512-32f3-4a5d-a5c4-05a193e037d4) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (fe2139b2-00f2-4eb3-8b28-d439e762967c) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (ff6cd189-1c49-4438-ac4e-34d988330e5f) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Update status from update (ffbb4e7e-0edc-47fe-8c02-65211d2586fb) already exists, will modify existing instance. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Successfully done with SetStatus() operation. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 968 (0x03C8)
Querying update status of 10 updates. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Querying update status completed successfully. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 1336 (0x0538)
Querying update status of 14 updates. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4548 (0x11C4)
Querying update status completed successfully. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4548 (0x11C4)
Querying update status of 22 updates. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 2372 (0x0944)
Querying update status completed successfully. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 2372 (0x0944)
Querying update status of 12 updates. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4488 (0x1188)
Querying update status completed successfully. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4488 (0x1188)
Querying update status of 26 updates. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4516 (0x11A4)
Querying update status completed successfully. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4516 (0x11A4)
Querying update status of 10 updates. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4368 (0x1110)
Querying update status completed successfully. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4368 (0x1110)
Querying update status of 12 updates. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 1984 (0x07C0)
Querying update status completed successfully. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 1984 (0x07C0)
Querying update status of 1 updates. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4296 (0x10C8)
Querying update status completed successfully. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:06 PM 4296 (0x10C8)
Querying update status of 10 updates. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:07 PM 4516 (0x11A4)
Querying update status completed successfully. UpdatesStore 8/15/2014 5:03:07 PM 4516 (0x11A4)
Windowsupdate.log
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {801E75EC-F4EF-483C-B606-AB930EBF46B3}.202 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {61BFE3EC-A1DC-4EAB-9481-0D8FD7319AE8}.100 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {07D8D1ED-1E2A-4696-A20F-9EE6D983B0E6}.100 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {B0CD9CEE-4C6B-4E2D-B4DA-1F83C4657C18}.104 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {006666EF-3638-4ADC-8DA0-65F08E31A4C2}.102 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {0CFB8DEF-9B7E-478C-A746-8F9F91311DB5}.103 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {2EE7B9F1-22B7-4618-84B1-8F0804A2ED02}.101 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {99EB2EF3-7266-4488-9A80-A49418A4D1D4}.201 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {B34E43F5-2F06-4D9D-B147-EE76B076E9C0}.100 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {AD752FF8-DF05-4532-84B2-FEFF2D98F689}.101 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {5357F0F8-DC7C-467C-8D8D-EA4D6345260C}.200 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {77507BF9-6899-47DF-96D0-2FFA53A90470}.101 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {EFA1E1FA-3CAD-4098-94E7-571D00F5B3BA}.202 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:963 924 1024 Agent   * Added update {ACCDC8FE-BC27-4473-9F35-BD9D0880B4D2}.101 to search result
2014-08-15 17:03:03:966 924 1024 Agent   * Found 192 updates and 8 categories in search; evaluated appl. rules of 313 out of 697 deployed entities
2014-08-15 17:03:03:972 924 1024 Agent *********
2014-08-15 17:03:03:972 924 1024 Agent ** END ** Agent: Finding updates [CallerId = CcmExec]
2014-08-15 17:03:03:972 924 1024 Agent *************
2014-08-15 17:03:03:990 3536 3c8 COMAPI >>-- RESUMED -- COMAPI: Search [ClientId = CcmExec]
2014-08-15 17:03:04:340 3536 3c8 COMAPI   - Updates found = 192
2014-08-15 17:03:04:340 3536 3c8 COMAPI ---------
2014-08-15 17:03:04:340 3536 3c8 COMAPI -- END -- COMAPI: Search [ClientId = CcmExec]
2014-08-15 17:03:04:340 3536 3c8 COMAPI -------------
2014-08-15 17:15:14:576 924 a98 Shutdwn user declined update at shutdown
2014-08-15 17:15:14:576 924 a98 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2014-08-15 17:15:14:576 924 a98 AU AU initiates service shutdown
2014-08-15 17:15:14:576 924 a98 AU ########### AU: Uninitializing Automatic Updates ###########
2014-08-15 17:15:14:701 924 a98 Report CWERReporter finishing event handling. (00000000)
2014-08-15 17:15:14:717 924 a98 Service *********
2014-08-15 17:15:14:717 924 a98 Service ** END ** Service: Service exit [Exit code = 0x240001]
2014-08-15 17:15:14:717 924 a98 Service *************
2014-08-15 17:18:22:445 904 230 Misc =========== Logging initialized (build: 7.6.7600.256, tz: +0100) ===========
2014-08-15 17:18:22:445 904 230 Misc   = Process: C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
2014-08-15 17:18:22:445 904 230 Misc   = Module: c:\windows\system32\wuaueng.dll
2014-08-15 17:18:22:445 904 230 Service *************
2014-08-15 17:18:22:445 904 230 Service ** START ** Service: Service startup
2014-08-15 17:18:22:461 904 230 Service *********
2014-08-15 17:18:23:256 904 230 Agent   * WU client version 7.6.7600.256
2014-08-15 17:18:23:287 904 230 Agent   * Base directory: C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution
2014-08-15 17:18:23:428 904 230 Agent   * Access type: No proxy
2014-08-15 17:18:23:521 904 230 Agent   * Network state: Connected
2014-08-15 17:18:36:498 904 e54 Report CWERReporter::Init succeeded
2014-08-15 17:18:36:514 904 e54 Agent *********** Agent: Initializing Windows Update Agent ***********
2014-08-15 17:18:36:514 904 e54 Agent *********** Agent: Initializing global settings cache ***********
2014-08-15 17:18:36:514 904 e54 Agent   * WSUS server:
http://SCCMserver.com:8530
2014-08-15 17:18:36:514 904 e54 Agent   * WSUS status server:
http://SCCMserver.com:8530
2014-08-15 17:18:36:514 904 e54 Agent   * Target group: (Unassigned Computers)
2014-08-15 17:18:36:514 904 e54 Agent   * Windows Update access disabled: No
2014-08-15 17:18:36:514 904 e54 DnldMgr Download manager restoring 0 downloads
2014-08-15 17:18:37:886 904 230 Report *********** Report: Initializing static reporting data ***********
2014-08-15 17:18:37:886 904 230 Report   * OS Version = 6.1.7600.0.0.65792
2014-08-15 17:18:37:886 904 230 Report   * OS Product Type = 0x00000004
2014-08-15 17:18:37:886 904 230 Report   * Computer Brand = VMware, Inc.
2014-08-15 17:18:37:886 904 230 Report   * Computer Model = VMware Virtual Platform
2014-08-15 17:18:37:886 904 230 Report   * Bios Revision = 6.00
2014-08-15 17:18:37:886 904 230 Report   * Bios Name = PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
2014-08-15 17:18:37:886 904 230 Report   * Bios Release Date = 2012-07-02T00:00:00
2014-08-15 17:18:37:886 904 230 Report   * Locale ID = 1033
2014-08-15 17:18:43:049 904 10f4 Report CWERReporter finishing event handling. (00000000)
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU ########### AU: Initializing Automatic Updates ###########
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU   # WSUS server:
http://SCCMserver.com:8530
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU   # Detection frequency: 10
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU   # Approval type: Pre-install notify (Policy)
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU   # Auto-install minor updates: Yes (Policy)
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU Initializing featured updates
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU Found 0 cached featured updates
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU AU finished delayed initialization
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU #############
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU ## START ## AU: Search for updates
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU #########
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 230 AU <<## SUBMITTED ## AU: Search for updates [CallId = {081DAF36-6F30-4383-9B4F-3439B1869B38}]
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 10f4 Agent *************
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 10f4 Agent ** START ** Agent: Finding updates [CallerId = AutomaticUpdates]
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 10f4 Agent *********
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 10f4 Agent   * Online = No; Ignore download priority = No
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 10f4 Agent   * Criteria = "IsInstalled=0 and DeploymentAction='Installation' or IsPresent=1 and DeploymentAction='Uninstallation' or IsInstalled=1 and DeploymentAction='Installation' and RebootRequired=1
or IsInstalled=0 and DeploymentAction='Uninstallation' and RebootRequired=1"
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 10f4 Agent   * ServiceID = {3DA21691-E39D-4DA6-8A4B-B43877BCB1B7} Managed
2014-08-15 17:19:22:199 904 10f4 Agent   * Search Scope = {Machine}
2014-08-15 17:19:29:982 904 10f4 Agent   * Found 0 updates and 171 categories in search; evaluated appl. rules of 337 out of 2240 deployed entities
2014-08-15 17:19:29:982 904 10f4 Agent *********
2014-08-15 17:19:29:982 904 10f4 Agent ** END ** Agent: Finding updates [CallerId = AutomaticUpdates]
2014-08-15 17:19:29:982 904 10f4 Agent *************
2014-08-15 17:19:29:998 904 10f4 Report REPORT EVENT: {CD4756C6-2116-4B99-B2AD-C970D24DE94F} 2014-08-15 17:19:22:199+0100 1 202 102 {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} 0 0 AutomaticUpdates Success Content
Install Reboot completed.
2014-08-15 17:19:29:998 904 1108 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Search for updates [CallId = {081DAF36-6F30-4383-9B4F-3439B1869B38}]
2014-08-15 17:19:29:998 904 1108 AU   # 0 updates detected
2014-08-15 17:19:30:013 904 1108 AU #########
2014-08-15 17:19:30:013 904 1108 AU ## END ## AU: Search for updates [CallId = {081DAF36-6F30-4383-9B4F-3439B1869B38}]
2014-08-15 17:19:30:013 904 1108 AU #############
2014-08-15 17:19:30:013 904 1108 AU Featured notifications is disabled.
2014-08-15 17:19:30:013 904 1108 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2014-08-15 17:19:30:013 904 1108 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2014-08-15 17:19:30:029 904 10f4 Report CWERReporter finishing event handling. (00000000)
2014-08-15 17:19:35:020 904 10f4 Report CWERReporter finishing event handling. (00000000)
2014-08-15 17:22:35:006 904 10f4 Report Uploading 1 events using cached cookie, reporting URL =
http://SCCMserver.com:8530/ReportingWebService/ReportingWebService.asmx
2014-08-15 17:22:35:255 904 10f4 Report Reporter successfully uploaded 1 events.
Not sure whats going wrong??????????
When I checked the Deployment Monitoring Tool for the perticular test PC, the contents for the Patch deployments are blank (Have attached the image)
Thanks.

Let's start with that I think it's a very tricky method of deploying software updates. There is always a possibility that between phase 1 and 3 some updates are revised or even some complete new updates are available. That could cause differences (in for
example behavior) between your test clients and your other clients.
Back to your issue, it's hard to judge based on the log snippets. It looks like a function client and at the end I see something about 0 updates available.. Make sure that the software update group contains updates, the deployment is targeted to the right
collection and the content is all downloaded and available.
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