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Windows Patch Management utilities

The SA Windows Patch Management feature requires several files from the Microsoft software download repository. These files can be installed during Core installation.

If you do not plan to use SA to manage Windows servers, you can optionally choose not to install these files and successfully complete installation. However, if these files are not installed, no operations against Windows servers should be performed. These files are required for many Windows-based operations other than Windows patching including Windows OS Provisioning.

Installing the required Windows Patch Management files in an existing core

If you need to perform Windows patching, you need to install the required Windows Patch Management files either by using the SA Client’s Import feature or the populate-opsware-update-library command line script.

See the SA 10.50 User Guide for more information about manually downloading the Windows Patching Utilities.