Software Updates Improvements

Software updates in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been overhauled to address some of the problems that make managing software updates painful for administrators today: manual cleanup of expired content (including content), lack of auto-approval, expiring superseded updates, poor end user experience, and lack of decent reporting.

Functional Changes

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager adds new features to help ease the administrative burden of patching devices, whether manual or automatic. One such change to the interface is the ability to perform granular searches of software updates. When the right criteria are set, the criteria can be saved to be reused later. Other functional changes include ...

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