The below post explains the end to end process of software updates management in SCCM 2012 Pre-requisites: 1. WSUS Server (WSUS 3.0 SP2 ) should be installed on the SCCM site server or if you want to install WSUS on another server, it is important that you install WSUS administration console as the SCCM Server uses API. This link explains the step by step procedure to install WSUS 3.0 SP2 2. Install SUP-Software Update Point on the SCCM Server . 3. Reporting Services Point: Install reporting services point role as described in this link . 4. Client agent: The software update client agent should be enabled(will be enabled by default) and the settings have to specified as per the requirement. On SCCM console, go to Administration>Site Configuration>Client settings>Right click on Default client settings> Click on Properties. If required, we can create custom client settings and then enable client settings for that settings. ...
After the Task sequence is created, it has to be advertised to computers to capture the image.
The below steps detail the tasks to be followed when advertising a task sequence.
1. In the SCCM 2007 Console, go to the task sequence that has to be advertised. Right click on the task sequence( here it is "Windows7 Reference machine") and click Advertise.
2. On the New Advertisement Wizard screen, in the Collection field, click Browse to select the All Unknown Computers collection.
3. To PXE Boot, check the Make this task sequence available to boot media and PXE and then click Next.
5. Distribution Points: On the Distribution points screen, select the Access
content directly from a distribution point when needed by the running task
sequence. Click Next.
The below steps detail the tasks to be followed when advertising a task sequence.
1. In the SCCM 2007 Console, go to the task sequence that has to be advertised. Right click on the task sequence( here it is "Windows7 Reference machine") and click Advertise.
2. On the New Advertisement Wizard screen, in the Collection field, click Browse to select the All Unknown Computers collection.
3. To PXE Boot, check the Make this task sequence available to boot media and PXE and then click Next.
4. Schedule:
On the schedule tab, leave the defaults and click next.
6. Interaction: Since it is not a mandatory advertisement, users will have an option to run independently and that option is greyed out. Click Next leaving the default options.
On the security & summary tabs review and click next.
Click Close to complete the wizard and the Task sequence is now advertised to the unknown computers.
The advertisement status can be checked through the Advertisement status in the SCCM console and also through the offermgr.log in the SCCM INSTALLATION DIRECTORY\LOGS folder
Amazing information about ads (Advertise). Thanks for sharing....
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