Patch Schedule for Laptops
I just created a new patch schedule for laptops, and broke it down into 3 separate parts.
Detect all patches @ 10AM
Deploy Windows 7 Critcal patches @ 10:15AM - no reboot
Deploy Office 2010 patches @ 10:30AM - no reboot
From reading through the admin & patching guides, I was under the impression that you should run a separte detect and deploy for laptops if they are offline. So, I was hoping that by running two separate deploy schedules that they would both run without a reboot required. What actually happened is that the first deploy ran, and prevented the second deploy from running because of the "Reboot pending" status. After a reboot the second deploy didn't even finish running, it "Verified" that the patches were infact not installed.
Because of the nature of our environment, 50% of our laptops only come back into the office once a month. So I NEED to be able to patch the laptop when it comes into the office without requiring a reboot.
Can someone explain what's going on here? Or help me out with my laptop schedule? Eventually I'll have more deploy schedules to add, such as adobe updates, java updates, etc.
Detect all patches @ 10AM
Deploy Windows 7 Critcal patches @ 10:15AM - no reboot
Deploy Office 2010 patches @ 10:30AM - no reboot
From reading through the admin & patching guides, I was under the impression that you should run a separte detect and deploy for laptops if they are offline. So, I was hoping that by running two separate deploy schedules that they would both run without a reboot required. What actually happened is that the first deploy ran, and prevented the second deploy from running because of the "Reboot pending" status. After a reboot the second deploy didn't even finish running, it "Verified" that the patches were infact not installed.
Because of the nature of our environment, 50% of our laptops only come back into the office once a month. So I NEED to be able to patch the laptop when it comes into the office without requiring a reboot.
Can someone explain what's going on here? Or help me out with my laptop schedule? Eventually I'll have more deploy schedules to add, such as adobe updates, java updates, etc.
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Posted by:
dchristian
12 years ago
When happens when you add the Windows and the office patches together in one schedule?
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baist111
12 years ago
When happens when you add the Windows and the office patches together in one schedule?
I would prefer not to do this, because it created problems with another test group. I found that when I added Windows security patches and application patches to the same schedule it sometimes rebooted computers, or caused updates to fail.
Edit: And because of other software that needs to be updates (Adobe Reader/Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Firefox, Chrome, Etc) I can't just push all of these updates through with one deploy schedule, I need to push a deploy based on a certain Machine Label, if they have the software installed.
Thanks!
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