A few years ago a consultant who was helping us setup configmgr created 1 ADR for patching. This ADR points to a pilot collection of a few servers and workstations.
Every patch Tuesday this ADR kicks off and those pilot machines are patched. We do this for testing. This deployment creates a new SUG each time and is only 1 Deployment package. We then were told during our patching weekend to go into our SUGs, find the date that these were applied, and then deploy them to either our production workstation or server collection. Yes we have no maintenance windows or anything, I manually do it, as well as all the rebooting. Every update is in this 1 deployment package which I know is a big no-no, so I am trying to fix this and get myself on track to have a smarter patching system. When we build out a new DP we have to copy this monstrous 40+ gig update file, which is painful to say the least! So after all that my question is: If I create a new ADR that is monthly (so I am breaking up the chunks) if the updates are already on the DP's will it just use those, or will I have to remove all 40gigs on each DP and then redistribute those files in the new ADR? Basically I am trying to start new without actually removing everything (if I can avoid it). I want to have this cleaned up best I can before upgrading to 1115. KEVIN JOHNSTON
