Query on Patch Deployment Process in SCCM 2012 R2

Hi All,
I have a Below SCCM environment in place, I have a very basic question on how Patches are downloaded by Client machines,
Environment Details:
one SCCM Server in Hongkong DC one DP server in Singapore Datacentre There are 14 Clients in Singapore DC as below,
02 Hyper-V Server Each Hyper-V server has 06 VM's In one of the 06 VM in Hyper-V 02 we installed the DP role. Patch Size : 500MB (We have created as a single software update Group)
Collection: We have created 02 Collections, each one for One Hyper-V and all it’s 06 VM’s
Question: When we are Deploying patches to each collection, how clients will download
the patches from DP ?
01.
Will all the clients start downloading the patches immediately or one by one?
02.
Out of these 500 MB of patches, hope only 100MB of patches will be applicable host client, In this case, the client will download only the required patches or all (I have choosen required
during deployment)
03.
If the answer for 01 Question is all will download at the same time means, by any chance can we control the behaviour (One by one without changing the collection)
Sundar

They download them using BITS from the nearest DP based upon the boundaries within content location boundary groups that you have set up.
1. For updates within a required deployment that are applicable to a particular system, they will begin downloading them at the "available" time.
2. Correct. The clients perform a compliance scan before they download any updates and only download those updates that are assigned to them using a required deployment that the compliance scan reveals that they need.
3. No. There is no control of order; however, clients will use BITS. You can however enable the deadline randomization feature using a client settings package. This will cause each client to randomly delay for up to 2 hours thus spreading out any workloads.
Alternatively, if you need to micro-manage the order that updates are installed, you can setup of a separate series of collections that have maintenance windows set on them and populate the collection appropriately. These maintenance windows will apply to
the systems within these collection for all activity on those systems regardless of the collection that was used to assign the deployment.
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[FATAL] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 2900 | The Bootstrapper Process is (5).Stopping the installation process.
[FATAL] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 2900 | The return code from the Adobe Installer Process is (33).Stopping the uninstallation process.
[WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 2900 | Failed to find the pdb database.
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Faulting module name: Set-up.dat, version: 2.9.1.474, time stamp: 0x54e11f94
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