Monitoring Software Updates

How do you know what software updates were installed where? Without this information, it is difficult to assure yourself, your boss, upper management, and the auditors that ConfigMgr is doing its part in keeping your enterprise compliant and safe. The next sections discuss how you can check individual update status and update deployment status in the console as well as using reporting for complete software updates tracking.

Caution: Update Compliance Status Delay

As mentioned in the “Compliance Scanning” section, state information for updates is not sent in real-time from clients back to the server. Instead, it is queued and sent based on the State Messaging client setting by each client. Thus, results for all compliance ...

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