Best practice in getting compliance rates of Software Update Deployments

Hi,
Would like to ask around on how others generate reports about software update deployment compliance. What do you use to get this report? Are there best practices for gathering software update compliance reports?

There is not really a best-practice on reports that you need to use for compliancy on software updates. One of the reports I often use to check the compliancy is
Compliance 1 - Overall compliance as it provides a good overview of a specific collection for an update group. For more details you can use
Compliance 3 - Update group (per update).
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There are no “if”, “and” or “but” able it. This is the only way to truly and reliably provide numbers to management.
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I will never hide low compliancy numbers to management, I will always show it to them.
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Provide them with a list of action items that need to be done in order to bring up the number to more reasonable level. I also set their expectation on what a reasonable level is.
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exactly what you are doing to ensure that all computers are management by CM12.
IMO these is no simple answer of this.
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