Software Updates - C. Deployment States report

Please help me if I run Software Updates - C. Deployment States report. I am getting compliant, below other status so these status means software updates instated? Then why it
is not showing as compliant Installing update(s), successfully installed update(s), waiting for another installation to complete.

To see the real compliance of the installed updates you should look at the compliance reports. For a specific software update group you could use the report
Compliance 3 - Update group (per update).
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Safari 6.0 5, iCal, Software update, Dashboard crashing on my MacBook Pro.
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If Safari, iCal, Software Update, and Dashboard are all crashing, there's no need to post multiple crash reports. The startup disk may need repairing.
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Modifying a Software Update Group Deployment via PowerShell

Good Morning Guys -
Recently, I created numerous Software Update Group (SUG) advertisements to a variety of collections using a PowerSHell script I wrote. It used the cmdlet "Set-CMSoftwareUpdateDeployment" which is described by Microsoft as "Modifies a
software update deployment in Configuration Manager." Below is the command I used for the advertisement I'm using as an example here:
Start-CMSoftwareUpdateDeployment -SoftwareUpdateGroupName "Workstation Related - Mar 2014 Deployment" -CollectionName "Workstation Patch Management - Window #5 - 3rd Monday - Auto Restart" -DeploymentName "Workstation Patch Management - Window #5 - 3rd Monday - Auto Restart" -DeploymentType Required -VerbosityLevel OnlySuccessAndErrorMessages -TimeBasedOn UTC -DeploymentAvailableDay 2014/3/17 -DeploymentAvailableTime 5:00 -DeploymentExpireDay 2014/3/17 -DeploymentExpireTime 5:00 -UserNotification DisplaySoftwareCenterOnly -SoftwareInstallation $False -AllowRestart $False -RestartServer $False -RestartWorkstation $False -ProtectedType NoInstall -UnprotectedType NoInstall
What I'm needing to do, though, is change many of these advertisements from "Required" to "Available" using PowerSHell again. Since it's described as "modifies," I assumed that I could run the exact same line used to create
the advertisement, except only change the "Required" string to "Available." The advertisement name is the same, so I thought it would work.
When I ran it, it simply created another advertisement with the same name:
Am I doing something incorrectly when trying to modify the advertisement or is what I've trying to do even possible with this cmdlet? If not possible, any suggestions you have as to how I could do what I'm trying to do on a large scale would be appreciated!
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I just tried on a required deployment:
set-cmsoftwareupdatedeployment -softwareupdategroupname "My Group Name" -deploymentname "My deploymentname" -collectionname "my collection name" -deploymenttype "available"
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Software Updater comes on, states that I urgently need this update. Yet when I agree the s/w update server connection goes on an on but do not seem to connect. What is the problem?

I have a Dell PC. This Software Updater comes on saying I need to update . I states that I urgently need this update! Norton says okay. I go ahead and approve. Then it start...updater connecting to update server... and it goes on an on and on. until I turned it off.
I have done that several times. I have even left it on to go on about my business. But apparently it hasn't unloaded anything because it keeps coming back on when I start up my computer.
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Software Update Reporting issue

I have deployed a software update group in a collection. When I check the deployment status from Monitoring - Deployments Node getting 78 % compliance but
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5% computers are showing as Compliant, and rest Computers are showing in Enforcement state unknown. Please help on this issue.

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I need to make a report for all software updates which we have not pushed via SCCM but Microsoft released it

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Change deployment package for software updates

Hi there
Currently we have different deployment packages and software update groups based on year, product, etc.
In the near future i'd like to rearange our software deployment process in configuration manager 2012:
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1x "Full" Software Update Groups with all updates in it. Additional to that we'll create a "Diff" Software Update Group at the Patchday and merge the updates later via edit membership in the "Full" Software Update Group.
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That is correct they only receive and install the updates they require, but don't confuse the metadata and deployments with the updates themselves. They will still receive the metadata and the policies for every update you deploy to them and that's where
the problem lies. Each and every update assigned to a client (using a deployment) has it's own policy which of course must be downloaded by the client and stored in WMI causing the bloat. Note that I haven't experienced this first-hand but am relying on the
accounts of others here in the forums but to me, if there is any chance of this being an issue, I would avoid it.
For Update Groups, just a few categories is sufficient to break things up and I typically do three: workstations, server, office. These are often on different patching schedules anyway so it makes sense to have three separate ADRs for them anyway.
For packages, I typically organize based on the calendar creating a new package every 3-6 months with the package containing all updates. There's really no need to divide the package up by product unless you have DPs dedicated to a specific product. Note
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Task 'Create Software Update Catalog' completed, state is 'failed' ExceptionText: Error: Setup detected an unexpected problem during installation. Error message: A valid file name is required.
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https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/05ddea79-ca6c-4958-bd54-ceac4b787dd9/problem-installing-sccm-2012-r2-hotfix-kb2905002-wdsosd-slowness-issue?forum=configmanagerosd
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** RESOLVED **
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1. Well It just takes that long, because it takes time to apply the updates unless we are taking about a really long time. If I apply all Windows 7 SP1 post updates (around 120) it takes about 2,5 - 3 hours to do a buld and capture.
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