"Compliance" is such a subjective and ambiguous term. Is it based on the system or on individual updates or on articles? How are unknowns counted? What about systems where an update is not required? What about inactive systems or superseded/expired updates?
I'm not asking you to answer these here, but based upon your answers to these and other similar questions, you can come up with very different ways of calculating compliance. This is at the heart of the issue here as each is actually showing you something different. You really need to define exactly what compliance means to you and then create or find a report that matches that definition. Also, most things in the console lag behind the actual data in the DB as real-time data in the console could potentially crush the DB. J From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Chris Carbone Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 12:49 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] Question about windows updates and compliance Hello All, We just started using SCCM to handle all Windows Updates for our workstations and I am seeing different compliance success rates depending where I look. If I look at a compliance report we are above 93% but if I look at the deployment status for those SUG's I see between 50%-60% with the remainder of the 40%-50% showing up in the "unknown" section. Probably just not checked in yet. So is the report showing me more of a status that at one point or another these workstations installed all the patches? And the deployment status is more of a real time/within 7 days status? Thanks! This electronic mail transmission may contain confidential information intended only for the use of the individual(s) identified as addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this electronic mail transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me by telephone immediately.
