I'm wanting to create a baseline in SCCM 2012 for minimum required updates..

My thought it at minimum, require the updates that are necessary for SCCM Software Updates to operate.  Is there a list somewhere of what SCCM 2012 clients need to have installed for past, present, and future updates - on Windows 2003, 7, 2008r2, 8.1, and 2012r2?

There are soo many superseded but required and expired updates in WSUS.. I can't tell anymore what a client should have as a baseline for WSUS to work (in regards to root certificates, servicing stack, and other essential updates).  As an example for Win8.1/2012r2, I was looking at KB2919355 which has a prerequisite of 2919442 but it has been superseded by (4) updates and the last one that is not superseded doesn't sound like it has anything to do with the original..  I've lost my nerve, I can't look at it anymore!!!

As another example I remember we've had updates to Windows Updates certificates or root certificates and if they were not applied clients would not detect or install newer updates (maybe that was October 2013?)..

Hopefully someone can point me to a Microsoft blog or something that gives the current minimum required updates?

Thank you,

73/N5ZY

Hi,

>> Is there a list somewhere of what SCCM 2012 clients need to have installed for past, present, and future updates - on Windows 2003, 7, 2008r2, 8.1, and 2012r2?

I haven't seen a article contains such information. You could use "Add Criteria" to filter all the required updates for your clients. You could set the product, supersed...

Best Regards,

Joyce

If you want to deploy future updates to only those machines that have certain updates already installed, you could create a collection based on the information collected from Win32_QuickFixEngineering WMI-class.

Now you could use those KB articles as filters for the members of that collection and deploy your updates against that collection.

I'd follow Joyce's advice on installing all the 'Required' -updates on your clients.