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- Patch management for Windows
- Features
- SA Client library
- Windows patching support of all products in the Microsoft patch catalog
- Microsoft patch database
- Patch installation
- Roles for Windows patch management
- Patch management process
- Patch management tasks
- Policy management
- Remediating patch policies
- Adding items to a Windows patch policy using the Object ID
- Patch compliance
- Patch administration
- Download and install Windows patch management files (optional)
- Patch locales
- Patch uninstallation
Windows patching support of all products in the Microsoft patch catalog
SA Windows Patching supports all Microsoft products, which includes operating systems (OS) and other non-OS products.
Previously, SA Windows Patching only supported OS patches; however most product-specific patches, such as those for MS Office 2010 or MS Word, were not supported. Windows product patches were present in the Microsoft Offline Catalog file (wsusscn2.cab), but they were not uploaded to the SA database when the cab file was imported.
Now, when the Microsoft Offline Catalog file (wsusscn2.cab) file is imported, all product-specific patches are imported according to the products selected under the Edit Products setting.
Note
Instructions for selecting products are provided in Setting up Windows product patching support.
Requirements
Product-specific patches can only be installed on servers that have the product installed.
The product installation and upgrade scripts make any necessary configuration adjustments. No additional configuration steps on the core are required.
Default selected products
The default product list is based on the Microsoft product list at the time this version of SA was released.
You can modify the list of products according to the products in your environment. If there are products in the default selected list that you do not want, they should be deselected before you run the Patch Import. This will minimize the data storage issues in the SA Core and Software Repository (word). Instructions for selecting products and using this functionality are provided in Setting up Windows product patching support.
About unsupported products
Windows Patch Import will only import patches for operating systems (OS) that SA supports. Patches for any unsupported OS will be excluded at import time. This exclusion applies to any unsupported Windows OS as well as any OS-specific product for any unsupported Windows OS. For information on the SA-supported operating systems, see the SA Support and Compatibility Matrix for your version of SA.
Note
The Microsoft Offline Catalog, wsusscn2.cab, may include patches for Windows OS or OS-specific products that SA does not support. These unsupported patches may still appear in the Patch Products selection list under SA Patch Settings. However, unsupported Windows patches will still be excluded from the patch import, even if they are selected in the product selection list.
Identifying product names for missing recommended patches
If the Vendor Recommended Patch Policy (VRPP) recommends any patches for a server that are not included in the imported patches, the compliance scan will show these missing patches in a subdued gray font. To determine the MS product necessary to import these missing patches, a KB#-to-Product Mapping script is available. Please contact SA Customer Support for details.
Getting started with Windows all products support
See Setting up Windows product patching support instructions for selecting products.
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