Best solution for bringing new systems up to date with software updates

I have read that I can create a non-deployed software update group that contains previous months patches and use that for reporting purposes to find out which systems do not have all the updates, but that is where my understanding falls short.
For some reason I am not getting how I can update new systems with all the updates before its existence in a domain, wrapped around my brain.
Can someone help me get this through my noggin please?
Thank you

I understand how to deploy SUGs to a dynamic collection.
This is my dilemma:
I currently piloting SCCM 2012 and bringing new systems into SCCM 2012 every 2 weeks to a month
I have a monthly Patch Tuesday ADR configured that creates the SUG, but does not enable deployment, so I can ensure everything is in order before I enable it
I then enable the deploy and target a collection that includes all of my pilot collections that consist of computers from remote sites so I do not have to deploy a SUG to each collection\
Now this works great for me, BUT many of these systems that I bring into SCCM 2012 every 2 weeks to a month do not have the patches installed on them, so I am trying to understand how I am supposed to get all of those previous patches deployed to them.
Can you tell me if this solution would work:
Put previous month's patches in a non-deployed compliance SUG and name it something like "2014 - Compliance Reporting" and use that for reporting purposes.
Create another SUG and name it something like "2014 - Compliance Deployment". Then deploy the "2014 - Compliance Deployment" SUG to a collection containing systems that do not have the updates installed on them from the "2014
- SUM Compliance Deployment" SUG.
OR
Do I just simply deploy the "2014 - SUM Compliance Deployment" SUG without running any report and let the clients figure out what to install?
OR
Do I tell the remote site admins to manually update the system by going to the Windows Update site and after that, allow SCCM to take over after the systems have all been updated that way?

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