ADRs work just fine. The problem is that you've scheduled them to run based upon the false assumption that the 2nd Wed or Thu or a month always occurs after the 2nd Tuesday. The best thing to do to overcome this is to either schedule the ADRs to run on the 3rd occurrence of a day of the month or on the 2nd Tuesday itself (sometime in the evening) although this later approach is impossible in Eastern parts of the globe (nearer to the international date line) where they've already crossed into Wed before Microsoft has even update the WSUS catalog.
None of this really has anything to do with the question though. The best answer here is to upgrade to 1602 where you can create multiple deployments on a single ADR. J -----Original Message----- From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 6:34 AM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [mssms] Monthly ADRs for patching I shouldn't have said they will always fail a couple times a year. If you patch on patch Tuesday they are fine. Otherwise they won't always work. Typos compliments of Siri Sent from my iOS device > On Apr 15, 2016, at 6:27 AM, Kevin Johnston <kjohns...@halogensoftware.com> > wrote: > > We have an ADR that was created by a consultant a few years back and for a > long time I just dealt with it, and now I want to clean it up. > > It is as follows: > > Date Released or Revised Last 1 week (7 days) Product (this includes > server OS, Office, Windows OS, runtimes, SQL Server, defender, > Silverlight, etc...) Title -Embedded OR -Itanium Update Classification > - Critical Updates OR Security Updates OR Updates > > Evaluation Cycle Occurs every 1 week on Tuesday effective 6/21/2013 > 3:00PM > > The issue I have with this is every "Patch Month" I have about 3 ADRs that > are created... So I have to deploy these 3 ADRs to the same Patching > collections every month. > > Is there any way to only have only 1 ADR get created per month, or maybe > combine them if they happen to be the same month? Or maybe I should manually > add them all together? > > I realize that patches are not always released on Patch Tuesday, but it just > seems like a lot of extra work to have to deploy 3 ADRs for 1 month to 7 > collections 3 times. > > We always deploy our patches to production 1 month behind, unless there is a > critical must have patch. And current month patches get deployed to a few > staging servers and workstations to ensure everything works. > > KEVIN JOHNSTON > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected > by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this > message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and > then delete it from your computer.
