{"id":126,"date":"2013-12-13T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/?p=126"},"modified":"2013-12-13T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:50:17","slug":"cm-2012-configuration-custom-client-settings-for-sup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/2013\/12\/13\/cm-2012-configuration-custom-client-settings-for-sup\/","title":{"rendered":"CM 2012 &#8211; Configuration &#8211; Custom Client Settings for SUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A client recently requested preliminary design for moving security updates from WSUS to CM 2012.\u00a0 There were several requirements for the move as well:\u00a0 1) SUP would need to be tested on a small group of clients initially;\u00a0 2) WSUS would need to remain in parallel during the process in order to keep current desktop\/laptop clients and servers patched; 3) WSUS would need to remain in place after the move as the server team would continue to use it until their conversion to CM 2012.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m only going to focus on how custom client settings were used to segment out the test group from the main body of desktops and laptops.\u00a0 (There were Group Policy and other adjustments which had to be made as well, but they are not part of this discussion.)<\/p>\n<p>First, I created a test collection to house the initial software updates test group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"CCSSUP01\" alt=\"CCSSUP01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP01_thumb.jpg\" width=\"585\" height=\"67\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Current Default Client settings have Software Updates turned off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"CCSSUP02\" alt=\"CCSSUP02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP02_thumb.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"496\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I created a custom client device setting specifically targeted at software updates.\u00a0 You can do this by navigating to Administration &gt; [expand] Overview &gt; [expand] Site Configuration &gt; [select] Client Settings, then either right-click on Client Settings and select \u201cCreate Custom Client Device Settings\u201d or click the same-named icon in the top ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>On the General tab of the resulting screen, I named the Custom Device Settings \u201cSoftware Updates \u2013 Enabled\u201d and checked the Software Updates box.\u00a0 Checking this box reveals the Software Updates tab in the left panel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"CCSSUP03\" alt=\"CCSSUP03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP03_thumb.jpg\" width=\"739\" height=\"571\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the Software Updates tab, I enabled software updates on clients (1 in the picture below), set bundling of updates having deadlines within 1 day of any update which has reached its deadline. (2 and 3 in the picture below) Save the custom client setting by clicking OK and then deploy it to the test collection.\u00a0 I set the priority of the setting to 1.\u00a0 If this is your first custom setting, it will default to a priority of 1.\u00a0 You can change the priority of any custom setting by right-clicking on the setting and using the Increase or Decrease Priority selections from the drop-down menu.\u00a0 Remember that the lower the priority number, the higher the priority in settings application on the client machine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"CCSSUP04\" alt=\"CCSSUP04\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP04_thumb.jpg\" width=\"737\" height=\"567\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The newly deployed shows up under the deployments tab of the custom settings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"CCSSUP06\" alt=\"CCSSUP06\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP06_thumb.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Force a Machine Policy Retrieval &amp; Evaluation Cycle on the machines located in the test collection and the new custom settings will be applied.\u00a0 You can check this by looking at the Components tab of the Configuration Manager control panel applet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"CCSSUP08\" alt=\"CCSSUP08\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP08_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Initiate a Software Updates Scan Cycle on the machines located in the test collection and then spot-check the WUAHandler.log file on those machines to validate that the clients are pointing to the correct SUP server and that the scan is not encountering any errors which need addressing.\u00a0 You should see something similar to the below entries in the log file.<\/p>\n<p>Enabling WUA Managed server policy to use server: [YOUR SERVER HERE]<br \/>\nAsync searching of updates using WUAgent started.<br \/>\nAsync searching completed.<br \/>\nSuccessfully completed scan.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel so inclined, use a tool such as Roger Zanders Client Center to check things out. (<a href=\"http:\/\/sccmclictr.codeplex.com\/\">http:\/\/sccmclictr.codeplex.com\/<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 don\u2019t forget to donate!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"CCSSUP10\" alt=\"CCSSUP10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP10_thumb.jpg\" width=\"763\" height=\"396\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A client recently requested preliminary design for moving security updates from WSUS to CM 2012.\u00a0 There were several requirements for the move as well:\u00a0 1) SUP would need to be tested on a small group of clients initially;\u00a0 2) WSUS would need to remain in parallel during the process in order to keep current desktop\/laptop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/2013\/12\/13\/cm-2012-configuration-custom-client-settings-for-sup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CM 2012 &#8211; Configuration &#8211; Custom Client Settings for SUP<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,83,34],"tags":[36,41,42,78,43,44],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-configuration-cm2012","category-custom-client-settings","category-software-update-point","tag-cm-2012","tag-configuration-manager-2012","tag-custom-client-settings","tag-software-update-point","tag-software-updates","tag-system-center-configuration-manager"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCSSUP03.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iUa6-22","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}