https://configurationmanager.uservoice.com/forums/300492-ideas/suggestions/8819518-software-update-patch-tuesday-scheduling
Agree that it would be better to have more flexible scheduling options. -Phil -----Original Message----- From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 2:54 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [mssms] Monthly ADRs for patching Well, remember, the ADR only can grab what's in your ConfigMgr DB based upon your Update Sync Cycle. Thus your update sync cycle also needs to run and be complete before the ADRs run but after the catalog is update by Microsoft. Thus, I normally schedule the update catalog sync around 6PM-ish CST every Tuesday and then the ADRs after that or alternatively every Wednesday morning and kick off the ADRs manually on the day after Patch Tuesday. Not perfect I know. I do have a long, long standing DCR (from the 2012 beta days 5+ years ago) for improving the scheduling to be relative to something other than the first of the month (like patch Tuesday) but it keeps getting pushed off :-( Another option here is to script it all. Steve Rachui has an excellent blog and set of scripts on this. J -----Original Message----- From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Leuthold Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 1:07 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [mssms] Monthly ADRs for patching To add to he conversation: I ran an ADR on patch Tuesday at 8:00 PM CST and it did not grab the latest Windows 10 / Office 2016 updates . I ran it again Wednesday morning and it grabbed them. I've since rescheduled to 11 PM. I was hoping to run the ADR at 8 since I would be able to setup the deployment in "days" to meet schedule needs, instead of "hours". -Stephen > On Apr 15, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Jason Sandys <ja...@sandys.us> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > >
