K1000 Non-OS Microsoft Patch Labels
We are just getting started standing up our K1000 in our enterprise and I had a question about what everyone is doing for Microsoft Patch Labels, specifically non-OS patches.
Originally I had a smart label setup to all Critical, Active patches where the vendor = Microsoft for a specific OS (i.e. Win7sp1x64) to capture all MS crits. I created a label such as this for each OS but this leads to very bloated labels. So now I'm trying out breaking the patch labels down a bit further so setup a configuration that has just OS crits in one label, Office in another, etc.
My question is how to best capture and separate these non-OS Microsoft patches in a separate labels but ensure that I'm not missing anything important. Plus, to make matters worse, it seems that the office 2010 patches do not all include "Microsoft Office" in the title so how do you, for example, create a patch label that only includes Microsoft Office 2010 patches.
Any tips or tricks would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Originally I had a smart label setup to all Critical, Active patches where the vendor = Microsoft for a specific OS (i.e. Win7sp1x64) to capture all MS crits. I created a label such as this for each OS but this leads to very bloated labels. So now I'm trying out breaking the patch labels down a bit further so setup a configuration that has just OS crits in one label, Office in another, etc.
My question is how to best capture and separate these non-OS Microsoft patches in a separate labels but ensure that I'm not missing anything important. Plus, to make matters worse, it seems that the office 2010 patches do not all include "Microsoft Office" in the title so how do you, for example, create a patch label that only includes Microsoft Office 2010 patches.
Any tips or tricks would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Posted by:
dchristian
12 years ago
Here is what i usually use for my App patches:
Vendor contains "Your Vendor"
Impact = Critical
Status = "Active"
That leaves one field to mess with depending on the situation.
Vendor contains "Your Vendor"
Impact = Critical
Status = "Active"
That leaves one field to mess with depending on the situation.
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Do you do this also for the Application Microsoft Patches? I basically have that setup now for MS but it leads to these extremely large labels that I would like to avoid. - drewdavis1 12 years ago
Posted by:
polandll
12 years ago
Actually, you can have more than just one field left. You can create a label name ("Vendor-Crit-Active"). Then, you can create a whole new label in which the first criteria is LABEL NAMES contains "Vendor-Crit-Active", and then add the other criteria that you want, such as Title contains Office and Version contains 12, or whatever.
This trick works for any Smart Label. If you need more criteria for the label that you want to build, just create an interim label for use in the building of the final label that you want.
