Report showing which updates are in which Distribution Point folders

SCCM 2007 SP2 R3. We're working on Software Updates distribution issues, and are trying to find a way to tell in which Distribution Point folder and subfolder names a certain patch is (or get a list of all patches under a certain distribution folder).
As an example, on the DP in the SMSPKGG$ folder , I have a folder named RD100492, in that I have a folder named fec8fc58-7ccd-48fe-a16f-ec5eddafef8f, and in that I have the patch named ie8-windowsxp-kb2964358-x86-custom-enu.exe. I'd like to be
able to run a report to find where that patch is in the folder structure and also to be able to list everything under a certain folder.
I've searched through the Views and Tables, but, can't seem to find the right columns.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

We keep having issues with some SU packages getting corrupt and either one or more patches hang, and dont' let the others install, or they seem to go missing (in once case we had a Patch List with 422 patches in it, and only 11 physically distributed and
created folders). MS Premier Support gave us a script to run that clears out the hung patches in WMI on affected computers for the former issue, but, for the latter issues, we have to run a manual comparison of folders find the ones with missing folders,
and recreate the Patch List. PITA trying to find things, why we are trying to create a report.
NOT just idle curiosity...<G>
I am presuming this info might only be in a Table, but, searching for column names hasn't found it, yet...
Thanks, Garth!

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Servers where patches will not install automatically or manually, Live updates are broken and when checking installed updates shows "NO UPDATES ARE INSTALLED ON THIS COMPUTER" SFC \SCANNOW will not run

Hello, (Bit of a long one but please read)
We have 3 servers in same physical location and server OU etc that are exhibiting the exact same behaviors (we have server servers in this location that are not), as above theyt are all W2008 R2 SP1 and all built from the same standard
image we use on hundreds of other computers, they have also been in production for different amounts of time and we started to see this behavior at different times with them: (Its odd they are all in the same site where there are also several other servers
that are not effected, there must be a link ? )
These servers are all missing several patches when checking our internal tool that reports from IBM endpoint management that we use to deliver patches (they are not all missing the exact same patches some ore or less than other), although
SCCM (we used SCCM to deliver patches until around 6 months ago) and IBM EM are both running (some ptches hark back to the SCCM Delievry days) they are not patching and when attempting to patch manually by downloading the exact patch coresponding to the fixlet
ID and the KB , the stanbdalone installer starts and after some time you receive an error message “The update is not applicable to yoru computer”. Windows update returns error 80070006 for all of the servers.
it is worth noting that other applications and products also using the .MSU extension will insatll so it is not a problem with the installer service.
The above led me to think a corrupt patch may have stopped the sequence of patching so I then looked in “Programs and Features” => “Installed updates” and this is blank for all of them returening the message:
“NO UPDATES ARE INSTALLED ON THIS COMPUTER”. (this I believe is a part of the fundamental issues and resolving this may resolve the patching)
Another issue is that if you run “SFC /SCANNOW” It starts the scan and then returns: “Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation” (Also in safe mode and both from an elevated CMD and WMI is started as a service)
The all three are probably related so I think fixing the “SFC and NO UPDATES SHOWN” issues will resolve the first.
The things I have tried so far are:
Running : wmic qfe list full /format:htable > c:\updates.htm Should produce a list of updates but instead returns : No Instance(s) Available (this is not hopeful)
Fix: Ran the “SYSTEM UPDATE REDINESS TOOL” from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821
Result : Update Ran successfully but NO CHANGE
Fix: Ran the automated and manual fix “RESET WINDOWS UPDATE COMPONENTS” here :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058/en then undated windows update agent.
Result : All ran successfully and NO CHANGE
Fix: Ran MBSA
Result : Runs successfully and then stays at “Done downloading security update information” (Log gives no obvious information)
Fix: Renamed the software distribution folder/restarted services (Various variations of this fix online, tried a few)
Result: Runs as described in article with new Software distribution folder being created,
NO CHANGE
Fix: Create/Correct the reg key for windows trusted installer located here HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing\Version (several articles relating to this and the above issues)
Result: the existing key was correct as should be from internal system information gathered , required in article.
Fix: Ran the “Windows update trouble-shooter”
as here :
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/troubleshoot-problems-installing-updates#1TC=windows-7
Result: It detected and fixed error’s but still no change.
The WMI Repository checks out on them all for both of the methods I know to verify “Get-wmiobject –list |measure” and ensure count is over 900 and also “C:\>winmgmt /verifyrepository” and the repository came back as “WMI Repository is consistent”. I guess
this is not hard evidence the WMI is OK, but these are the only methods I know.
I have also tried removing the server from its OU , running a GP Update and then rebooting and testing but to no avail (Bit of a longshot but tried to link the distinction between the three servers and the OU GP is one of them)
I have tried a few other articles registering .Dll’s etc , but I did not take a note of links as I was at the start of this and didn’t expect it to go so long so please reply with anything you see not above im happy to try again.
I have thought about removing SP1 and reinstalling it but this will require a major downtime and only possible if the backup files of SP1 have not been removed.
Any help is apreciated !

Hi,
Please try to rebuil the WMI repository.
For detailed information, please refer to the blog below,
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2009/04/13/wmi-rebuilding-the-wmi-repository.aspx
If issue persists, due to sfc doesn't work, could you try to repair your system with the installation disk?
Best Regards.
Steven Lee
TechNet Community Support

WSUS lists app. 178 missing updates for the Windows 8/8.1 clients, but the clients report that no updates are necessary

We are operating a small network consisting of a SBS 2011 and a few clients, most of which operate WXP and W7. Some time ago we converted the first client to W8 and noticed, that WSUS reported a big number of missing updates (all being language packs and
language interface packs), which the client never pulls, as from its perspective everything is in best order. When searching for updates over the internet the client again does not detect anything missing.
We first thought of an issue with this single W8 client, as neither the WXP nor the W7 machines show the same phenomenon, but recently we introduced the first two W8.1 clients, and interestingly we saw the same problem. The question now is, why
does WSUS believe that these updates were necessary whilst the clients themselves are convinced that everything is fine? And who is right, WSUS or W8/8.1? (I tend to believe the clients, though.)
Best regards, Dietmar.

why does WSUS believe that these updates were necessary whilst the clients themselves are convinced that everything is fine?
Because you're misinterpreting the meaning of the state "Needed"...
which is discussed elsewhere in this forum ad naseum.
And you're making the mistake of trying to compare information with WU with information from WSUS. The two are not comparable.
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MY I pad 1 is not updateing....in software update option it's shows iOS 8.1 are avelabal but when I star download the massage is blink an error ocupide ........pls help me toupdate my I pad.!

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Apps icon not showing that updates are available

I was my understanding that when updates were available, the Apps icon was supposed to display the number, in red, similar to email and chat, etc. However, the number displays only after I enter the Apps store. Is this the way it's supposed to work? Is it a bug? Anyone else having this problem?

Karen Ram wrote:
So what's the purpose of the indicator if it won't display anything until you've already checked for updates? There needs to be some kind of Push notification -- just like there is for email and chat. Current behavior just doesn't make sense.
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Dave

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Is there a way to base a collection from a query that shows all Distribution Points?

Hi,
I am able to create a query in Excel that shows all distribution points in my SCCM hierarchy:
i.e.
SELECT v_DistributionPointInfo.ServerName
FROM SMS_EY0.dbo.v_DistributionPointInfo v_DistributionPointInfo
Is there anyway to get this query into SCCM Queries so that I can base a Collection off of the query. This way, I will have a dynamic collection to show me all of my 630+ distribution points?
Thanks!

Thanks alot for the statement. In my situation it didn't worked. The probem is, that the data in SMS_DistributionPointInfo.Servername is written as FQN. In SMS_R_System.Name the Name is without FQ.
I have successfuly tested the following query in SQL:
Select
* from
v_r_system
where
v_r_system.Name0
in (Select
REPLACE(Servername,
'FQN-String',
'') from
v_DistributionPointInfo)
But this doesn't work in WQL
Select
* from
SMS_R_System where
SMS_R_System.Name
in (Select
REPLACE(Servername,
'FQN-String',
'') from
SMS_DistributionPointInfo)
Do you see another solution for my problem?
Kind regards Stefan Somogyi

Application won't download/install from distribution point

Hello,
I have a new distribution point that clients refuse to download application deployments from. The advertisement(s) get stuck at "Downloading 0%".
The DP monitor confirms that the package is distributed. Boundary and boundary group is created and should be OK for this DP (which has firewall disabled).
When I take a client and put it on a different subnet, the application downloads from another working DP.
Any suggestions?

CAS.log --->Download started for content Content_310d8d2d-9457-455b-ac4a-1a03fb4567f3.1
-->And it will just hang until I cancel the deployment/install on the client.
LocationServices.log --> no errors
Unable to retrieve AD site membership --> ????both the client and the DP are domain members
Distribution Point='http://MNTH-SP-SRV01.xxxx.local/SMS_DP_SMSPKG$/Content_310d8d2d-9457-455b-ac4a-1a03fb4567f3.1', Locality='LOCAL', DPType='SERVER', Version='7958', Capabilities='<Capabilities SchemaVersion="1.0"><Property Name="SSLState"
Value="0"/></Capabilities>', Signature='http://MNTH-SP-SRV01.xxxx.local/SMS_DP_SMSSIG$/Content_310d8d2d-9457-455b-ac4a-1a03fb4567f3.1.tar', ForestTrust='TRUE'
(MNTH-SP-SRV01, this is the DP I'm trying to deploy from)
DP is associated to a boundary group, and the boundary with the address range which the server is on is a member of the boundary group.

Distribution point not installing

I'm having some issues with a new Distribution point. This is my first Server 2012 R2 distribution point and after installing the roles and features (I believe are required) the distribution point does not install. I can't see anything on the distribution
point, nor can I see any configuration on the SCCM console. It displays as a site system with a role of Distribution point but distmgr.log does not display any activity except
Successfully modified DP ["Display=\\DP02.Domain.net\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=CTG"]\\DP02.Domain.net\ Drizzle Role to 1 SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 13/08/2014 11:20:13 5096 (0x13E8)
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STATMSG: ID=9501 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=\\MP01.Domain.net SITE=CTG PID=5580 TID=5096 GMTDATE=Wed Aug 13 10:20:42.786 2014 ISTR0="["Display=\\DP02.Domain.net\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=CTG"]\\DP02.Domain.net\"
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STATMSG: ID=9503 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=\\MP01.Domain.net SITE=CTG PID=5580 TID=5096 GMTDATE=Wed Aug 13 10:20:42.788 2014 ISTR0="["Display=\\DP02.Domain.net\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=CTG"]\\DP02.Domain.net\"
ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=404 AVAL0="["Display=\\DP02.Domain.net\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=CTG"]\\DP02.Domain.net\" SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 13/08/2014
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CWmi::Connect() failed to connect to
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STATMSG: ID=2391 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=\\MP01.Domain.net SITE=CTG PID=5580 TID=5096 GMTDATE=Wed Aug 13 10:20:44.002 2014 ISTR0="["Display=\\DP02.Domain.net\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=CTG"]\\DP02.Domain.net\"
ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=404 AVAL0="["Display=\\DP02.Domain.net\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=CTG"]\\DP02.Domain.net\" SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER 13/08/2014
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If anyone has the list of Operating system requirements for a DP running on Server 2012R2 it would be appreciated also.

I've just tried to reach the admin$ from a remote PC and (from the local server) using PSexec and I can read the admin$ directory without any issues so there is access to the remote DP. I haven't yet looked at the firewall logs but only because
the firewall ports are already allowing traffic to our other DP's.
do the firewall rules differ from server 2008, 2012 and 2012R2? (I have previous 2008 and 2012 servers but this is the first R2 server we are setting up as a DP.)
The firewall rules are the same for 2k8 and 2k12.
When you reach the admin$ share are you using Psexec as the system account and not your use account ? (-i -s as Torsten mentionned) ?
Do you have any other firewall maybe between the machine and the site Server ?
Do you have the SCCMContentLib folder created on the DP ? (On the drive specified in the wizard).
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Package content on Primary Site Server (no Distribution Point Role)

Hey,
I have the situation that there are 3 Servers with following roles installed:
1.File Server
2.SCCM 2012 R2 CU3 Primary Site Server / Database Server (Was a distribution Point previously to update to CU3)
3.Distribution Point
Our packages are all stored as "source" on the File Server.
Now some SCCM Applications / packages are created and distributed to the distribution point.
Unfortunately on the Primary Site Server the folder "SCCMContendLib" extends as it does on the distribution point (so this means that all packages are distributed to the primary site server, too.
My question is now- why? :)
Is this really needed (I see no reason for it) or is it a problem in the infrastructure (if yes - how can I resolve it)?
Thank you for help
Kind Regards

Not a problem with your infrastructure. What you're describing it the default behavior for ConfigMgr, in terms of storing content on the primary.
-Nick O.

Enable PreStaged content on a distribution point.

I would like to enable Prestaged content on two current distribution points that already have content on them. I am assuming after I enable them I will still be able to use the option to Automatically download content to the distribution without presaging
it? (When a distribution point is not configured for prestaged content the content is automatically set to download when the package is assigned to a distribution point?)
Also if I have some packages that are set to Manually copy content do a distribution point (I don't know why this was set since our distribution points were not enabled for prestaged content yet) will they still work?
Is there a way to query for packages that have the distribution settings set to Manually copy?

So essentially if "Enable this distribution point for prestaged content."
is not selected on a distribution point, the content behavior for all packages is "Automatically download content when packages are assigned to distribution
points"?
If "Enable this distribution point for prestaged content."
is selected on a distribution point, and the distribution settings for a package is set to "Download only content changes to the distribution point". Does
the first time the package get deployed it need to be prestaged or will it fully copy the content the first time and then just update the changes?
My distribution points are not really network resource constrained but I would like to be able update images and software update packages with just updated content. I won't necessarily ever need to prestage content.

Problem with option: enable this distribution point for prestaged content

Hi, for past few days I have been focused on application deployment with SCCM 2012 R2 (I am learning SCCM 2012 R2 reading books, watching video trainings . . .). Having followed allong book Mastering System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager I also did
deployment of Microsoft Office 2013, Adobe Reader 11, Foxit Reader 4.2 and Notepad ++ to test collection containing one Windows 7 computer. In one of examples prestaged content file is created for Foxit Reader application. In order to do so, if I am
right, option Enable this distribution point for prestaged content
has to be checked on distribution point and I did that.
Problem is that I noticed deployment of any application to test collection failed every time - system waits for prestaged content file if this option is selected. Then I have to delete deployment of given application, application itself, deselect option
Enable this distribution point for prestaged content and create app, distribute it to DP and deploy to test collection - then everything works well.
To make things worse, having deselect option Enable this distribution point for prestaged content (I did it yesterday and I checked that several times) this morning I checked again and this option is selected again. What might be the cause
of this behaviour? I expected this option to be deselected - this is weird to say at least.

When you enable the option "Enable this distribution
point for prestaged content" on a DP, it causes newly created applications/packages to default to "Manually copy the content in this package to the distribution point"... This would then cause the deployments on the clients to remain
at 'waiting for content' - unless if you manually prestage the content, as this option requires it.
If you enable the option "Enable this distribution
point for prestaged content" on the DP, but want to automatically have CM distribute the content, then configure the app/package to do so,
before distributing the content: Distribution Settings tab > Prestaged distribution point settings > Automatically download content when packages are assign to distribution points.

Pull Distribution Points - Any views?

We are about to embark on a project to upgrade to 2012. We have a lot of branch locations (>250 and rising) and traditionally these locations hosted secondary sites. What is currently being proposed is to have a primary with two secondary sites under
that and an even distribution of DPs underneath the secondaries in place of the old 2007 secondary sites. The purpose of the secondary sites in this instance is to alleviate the 250 DP limit load per site.
With SP1, there are pull DPs that might be an alternative to this approach, allowing us to do away with the secondary sites. If this were the case I'd probably look at having three standard DPs coming off the primary and the pull DPs set to get their content
from these 'randomly'. I put the word in inverted commas, as according to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/gg712321.aspx:
If there are multiple source distribution points with the same priority, the pull-distribution point nondeterministically selects one
of the source distribution points that share that priority.
What is meant by nondeterministically?
One assumes this would mean randomly but is this the case? Has anyone got any experience of this and pull DPs in general? Do they work as well as traditional DPs? Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks

Non-deterministically can be equate to random. It effectively means there's no (publically) defined way that they choose.
There is no difference between a PullDP and a normal DP from the client's perspective -- they have no way to know the difference and no reason to know the difference because they are in fact the same as far as making content available to clients.
The only actual difference with Pull DPs is how they acquire their own content. PullDPs use BITS and use the same logic (and code even to my knowledge) that clients themselves do (they don't require the actual client agent though). There have been a lot
of improvements in PullDPs in R2 as well as some of the CUs. There was even a KB for a hotfix released in the past couple of weeks that discussed a registry tweak to help PullDPs along.
PullDPs, in general, work quite well and there is no specific reason to avoid them. They do require a bit of extra care and feeding, but to my knowledge, nearly all of the kinks with them have been worked out.
Have you considered using BranchCache as an alternative (or one of the third-party ACPs) though? Not trying to make your decision harder or recommend one over the other, just making sure you knew about other options that could address your challenge.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

Pacman -Syu - show which repo the updates are in + current versions?

Hi, I couldn't find a way (other then write shell script workarounds ;-) ) to show this additional information:
- the repository the update is in
- the current installed version of the package
dieter@dieter-ws ~ $sudo pacman -Syu
Targets (4): abiword-2.6.5-1 avahi-0.6.23-2 bashrun-0.7-1 qscintilla-2.3.2-1
I would like to know in which repo's these updates are, and which versions I have installed locally (doing pacman -Qi for each package myself does not count). Is that possible?

Xyne wrote:Ok, I've changed that line a bit so check the latest version. If it still doesn't work, can you post the output of "pacman -Qu" so that I can figure out where the regex is failing?
It's better now, however there is still a bug. 'pacman -Ss' also shows the group of a package, eg:
testing/automake 1.10.2-1 (base-devel)
testing/man-pages 3.14-1 (base)
core/automake 1.10.1-2 (base-devel)
core/man-pages 3.13-1 (base)
extra/abiword 2.6.5-1
You do this:
my ($repo) = ($sync_db =~ m/^(.+)\/\Q$name $ver\E$/m);
This only works if there is no group (eg abiword). It doesn't match for the others. Leaving away the '$' fixes this
Last edited by Dieter@be (2008-11-27 22:34:26)

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