Historically it’s been considered taboo to touch WSUS when part of a Configuration Manager environment. Those times have now past and if you’re not actively maintaining WSUS on a regular basis it’s more than likely failing causing scan failures.
Or at least not entirely useless
Category: Configuration Manager (Page 2 of 2)
For reasons you may not want to share at Configuration Manager administrator parties you may find yourself managing clients that are not domain joined. Often administrators assume Configuration Manager can’t do that or is severely limited. Read on for all the gory details.
For well over a decade there’s been a social contract of sorts with Microsoft. Security patches are released on the second Tuesday of the month at 10 AM Pacific Time. They release and we start our patching processes. Well … what if they didn’t?
I tried … and failed … to implement Server Group Patching to automate patching our Exchange clusters. That doesn’t mean I didn’t learn a few useful things about how the feature works and how to troubleshoot it.
One of the exciting parts of the pre-release Server Group Patching feature is the ability to run scripts before and after the patching process. This is key to automating workload migrations in clusters like Exchange or SQL. While it sounds promising, reality is a little underwhelming.
Hoping to use the Server Group Patching pre-release feature to patch a group of servers in order? It appears to be broken. We are the real QA team.
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