We use legacy packages, but I don't believe our clients get uninstalled first. We don't use the built in packages, just copies of the client folder.
-----Original Message----- From: ccollins9 [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 06:34 PM Eastern Standard Time To: mssms Subject: [mssms] 2012 R2 CU4 update This has been kicking my butt all day. Our system was SCCM 2012 SP1. I upgraded the site server to 2012 R2 CU4. I now need to update the client systems I know I can do automatic upgrade, but I also want to create an application for the new client to target machines during a maintenance window before turning on automatic updating. I created an application basically just using the same install command that the built-in update package uses after installing R2. I have the detection criteria set to look for {8864FB91-94EE-4F16-A144-0D82A232049D}. Anyway, it's doing something I've NEVER seen in all my years working with SCCM 2012. The application starts and I'm viewing the AppEnforce.log: "Waiting for process 6920 to finish. Timeout = 15 minutes" And there it sits, FOREVER. Long past the 15 minute timeout. ccmsetup.exe is tied to process 6920 in this case. It starts, uninstalls ccmexec.exe, reinstalls it, then ccmsetup.exe closes, meaning process 6920 closes from the list of running processes. Yet there it sits. So the client is successful, but it never seems to "finish" properly. My initial thought is that it is getting messed up because it's the client and it's reinstalling, so who knows how that will make the logs look to me. I knocked down the timeout down to 15 minutes to at least see if it terminates itself with an error, but no, it just sits. How are others deploying UPGRADES to SCCM 2012 R2 clients? And for that matter, how are folks handling the subsequent client update to CU4? Are y'all just using the built-in packages and hoping they work? I wanted to try it as an application because: A. it would check for failure and try again until it was successful B. I created an app for the R2 upgrade and another one for the CU4 patch, then made the CU4 patch application depend on the R2 Upgrade application Am I just making this all harder on myself? Thanks! The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information.
