Software Updates

The beginning of the year is a great time to check your Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr/SCCM/MEMCM) environment to ensure that everything is working smoothly. We all know that we should be…

January 2020’s free Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr/SCCM/MEMCM) giveaway is the Computer Software Update Details Dashboard. This dashboard is available in both Power BI and SSRS formats. Why do you need this…

Instead of showing empty report sections because a query produced no results, I wanted to add some text to explain the outcome. I turned to an option called, No Rows,…

Up until now, my experience working with SCCM’s Role-Based Administration (RBA) queries showed them to be slower than the normal SQL Server views. My thoughts changed, however, when I recently…

The Microsoft Ignite expo hall closes at 5:15 p.m. today, so make sure to come and see us in booth #2113! We’ll scan your badge in order to send you…

I’ll show you how to determine within the Configuration Manager console what software updates (SUs) are missing and how to make a Software Update Group for them.

By Garth Jones Not long ago, I was working with PowerShell (PS) in order to create a few automation scripts. This was a bit of a challenge for me as…

I’m always interested in hearing how people perform a software update audit. Here’s one of the requests I typically see posted within the Microsoft TechNet Forums: I need a report…

As of late I have had to create a bunch of fresh VMs and patch them up. Just so happens that one of those VMs was a new domain controller…