Sccm 2012 software updates reporting

The clients download the software update content files from a content source to their local cache. Clients on the internet always download content from the Microsoft Update cloud service.

The software updates are then available for installation by the client. If a distribution point isn't available, clients on the intranet can also download software updates from Microsoft Update. Unlike other deployment types, software updates are all downloaded to the client cache. This is regardless of the maximum cache size setting on the client. For more information about the client cache setting, see Configure the client cache for Configuration Manager clients.

If you configure a required software update deployment, the software updates are automatically installed at the scheduled deadline. Alternatively, the user on the client computer can schedule or initiate the software update installation prior to the deadline.

After the attempted installation, client computers send state messages back to the site server to report whether the software update installation was successful. For more information about software update deployments, see Software update deployment workflows. Typically, you start by manually deploying software updates to create a baseline for your clients, and then you manage software updates on clients by using an automatic or phased deployment.

Select software updates in the Configuration Manager console and manually start the deployment process. You typically use this method of deployment to:. Get clients up-to-date with required software updates before you create automatic deployment rules that manage monthly deployments.

Filter for software updates that use specific requirements. For example, provide criteria that retrieves all security or critical software updates that are required on more than 50 clients. When manually deploying Office client updates, find them in the Office Updates node under Office Client Management of the Software Library workspace.

Configure automatic software updates deployment by using an automatic deployment rule ADR. This method of deployment is common for monthly software updates typically known as 'Patch Tuesday' and for managing definition updates. You define the criteria for an ADR to automate the deployment process. The following list provides the general workflow to automatically deploy software updates:.

We already made an overview of the Windows 10 Servicing dashboard and the Office Management dashboard will also be a topic in a future post. Gives a number of devices the are compliant and non-compliant based on the Compliance Status Filters options using the 3 dots in the upper right corner. In our example 17 devices are compliant and 37 are not. In the Compliance Status Filter section, you can decide which Updates Category and the update time frame that you want included in the calculation.

This section is self-explanatory. By clicking on a section of the pie chart, the selected updates are displayed in the Devices Missing Updates section. April 7, I am trying to put together a Report or Query that will list all the software on the workstations under Add or Remove.

Rather then just Office SP1. This report bring up over k for Office So I am assuming it picked up Word, PowerPoint etc.. Just want a report that will show me the count of how many people are using Office , and other application out in the field with the correct name of the applications.

I am not quiet up to par in creating queries as of yet, work in progress. As anyone come up a report that does something like this. The best way to start to create a custom report is to ensure that you get your SQL query correct first. We have written hundreds of various queries over the years for our own use and by request through our website.

This guide will show you how to pull data from the Configuration Manager database and give you the following information:. You can add and remove any of these columns where you feel the need to customise them but for this guide, these are what we will use.