In Configuration Manager Console, click on Software library, expand Software Updates, click on All Software Updates, below screenshot for your reference.
After clicking All Software Updates, in Results pane you will see all the software updates as below.
The first step in deployment is Creating Software Update Groups. Before proceeding we will filter the updates per our requirement (In this example I am going to deploy Windows Malicious software removal tool). To filter click on Add Criteria as shown in below screenshot. Here I am adding product as a criterion and selecting Windows Server 2016 as product.
Select all the updates which you are going to deploy and right click on them and select Create Software Update Group as shown in below screen.
Provide the Software Update Group and Description and click on Create to proceed with.
To find the Software Update Group, go to Software Update Group and in results pane you can see all the created Software Update Groups (Manually or Using Automatic deployment rule).
Post Creating Software Update Group we need to create the deployment Packages to deploy patches or updates.
Follow the below steps to create deployment packages to deploy the patches of updates.
In Configuration Manager Console, click on Software library, expand Software Updates, click on Software Update Groups and in results pane you will get all the software update groups created. Right click on the one which you want to deploy and click on to Deploy as shown in below screen and follow the Deploy Software Updates Wizard.
In Deploy Software Updates Wizard, Provide Deployment Name, Description and click on browse to select the collection where you want to push the patches and click next to continue.
In Deploy Software Updates Wizard, Provide Deployment Name, Description and click on browse to select the collection where you want to push the patches and click next to continue.
On Deploying Settings screen, Select the Type of deployment (Required (It will install the patches on the user machine automatically) or Available (in this scenario, patches will be available in software center on client machine and need manual intervention from the user to install the patches). Here I am selecting as required as I don’t want manual intervention from user to install the patch.
On Scheduling screen, Select the time based on as Client local time, and software available time as “As soon as possible” or schedule as per your requirement. And do same with Installation deadline as well.
On User experience screen, select the deadline behavior as required. In this scenario patches will install on the clients but it will not restart automatically. Click next to proceed further.
On Alerts screen, if you want to generate an alert related to Configuration Manager alert then select Generate an alert when the following conditions are met. And you can generate Operations manager alerts as well, however in this scenario we have disabled that options.
On Download Settings, Select Download software updates from DP and install and download and install software updates from DP in site default boundary group. And click next to proceed further.
On Deployment Package screen, select Create a new deployment package and package source ( Create a folder on the SCCM server and share it with everyone) and select Sending priority as High and click next to proceed further.
On Distribution Points, click on add and select distribution point and click next to proceed further.
On Distribution Points, click on add and select distribution point and click next to proceed further.
On Distribution Location, select download software updates from the internet or provide the network location to download the updates and click next to proceed further.
Select the language as English and click next to proceed further.
Confirm the settings and click next to proceed further.
It will take some time to download the updates from internet as shown below.
On completion, you will get he below message by saying that the deploy software updates Wizard complete successfully.
And click close to finish the wizard and this concludes the Deploying software updates in SCCM Current Branch 1702.
Happy Learning ☺
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