Problem:

Recently I noticed that one of my Deployment Management items holding Microsoft software updates had a little greyed out icon

Cause:

After a little digging I found that this icon meant that that the Deployment Management item contained Expired updates.

I recently spent a bit of time tring to create a Search Folder in SCCM 2007 that would show me all of the updates that were required by machines but had not yet been approved, to make selecting updates for deployment a little easier.

Here is how I did it in the end;

Recently I have been setting up Software Updates in SCCM 2007 to take over from an existing WSUS Server.

The setup went fine however I quickly noticed computers were not returning any status to the SCCM server and when I checked the report "Scan 3 - Clients of a collection reporting a specific state" I  found that ever computer had a "State Name" of "Scan Failed" and an "Error Status ID" of "11423"

If you have every wondered how to remove a update from computers using WSUS then the below should help.

1. Open the WSUS MMC console and connect to your server
2. Expand Update Services => Server Name => Updates
3. Right-click All Updates and select Search

   

Problem:

For some time I had WSUS and Microsoft SCCM integrated together but installed on seperate servers, recently I wanted to break the integration so I removed the software update role from SCCM but I found that reporting on the WSUS server no longer worked, no machines had reported their status since SCCM was configured.

Cause:

Apparently when you integrate SCCM with an existing WSUS server by default SCCM takes over the reporting meaning the WSUS Server no longer records the status of machines etc.