Hi everyone
I have a question about patch manager and wsus in general.
Windows environment overview:
85 Servers
450 Laptops/Desktops
Since recently, the SW patch manager is showing no "Needed Updates" in the console (for All updates), I find this strange as I would expect to see several recently approved updates being deployed in the normal fashion. I have a view setup showing only "Needed updates" which I approve on the 2nd Wednesday of each month to test before deploying to all. However when i change the update status to "Needed" for all updates I get no results, I haven't declined these recently that I know of! It appears to be a problem with SW Patch manager/wsus downloading updates and distributing them correctly.
My colleague advised that when he performed a "Check online for updates from Windows Update" in the control panel on several servers he found that there's 250-300mb of updates available. I ran the WSUS Solarwinds diagnostic tool on the servers in question and get green ticks for all confirming that the wsus client can connect back to the WSUS server (solarwinds patch manager server), the results are attached. All of our network servers/workstations updates are managed by the the one WSUS server controlled by group policy.
I'm unsure how to troubleshoot this further can anyone help? I can provide further info as requested, sorry if the above is a bit vague.
Thanks
G