Hello there,
up so far we were using WSUS for patching our machines. As I liked the way it works I am trying to mimic WSUS logic inside LanDesk. As I'm not a LanDesk expert I hope some of you have some ideas for what I'm doing:
Scanning:
Every update goes to the Scan group so I see which vunerabilities exists.
Scheduling Roll-Out:
The easy part. WSUS works with GPO settings and so I just use different Scan & Repair settings (time windows for server for example).
Selecting which Patches are installed:
I created several device groups (eg. "Servers", "Workstations", ..) where I drag & drop all relevant machines. Inside Patch Manager I created groups with the same names. And then I tried to make a Repair Task from every Patch Manager group with target = <device group>.
BUT I've the following problems or misunderstandings:
- It looks like I need to create a new repair task every time I add a patch to the appropiate Patch Manager group because the repair task contains a list of patches and not a reference to the group?!
- I can either download every patch or manually download the patches when creating the repair taks?!
The best way would be to just add patches to the patch manager group and/or devices to the device group and everything else is automatic.
Is this possible?
Thanks for your ideas and help,
Ronald