Management asked me to create weekly reports of client side patching. So I am wondering if WSUS have any form of reporting functionality?

• Changed type Nicholas LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Tuesday, July 30, 2013 2:23 PM

Yes definitely, that's one of the main functions of WSUS, after dishing out updates to clients of course.

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939891(v=ws.10).aspx for details of what reports are available within WSUS and how to produce them, and also http://blogs.technet.com/b/wsus/archive/2008/06/20/baseline-compliance-report-using-public-wsus-views.aspx which gives an example of other things you can do to extend that functionality, which could be useful if you're after something more specific.

Great!

Going to create a report based on a group of selected patches showing each group distribution per site and progress comparison!!!

Strange, I can't see any option to create a selective progress result based on a chosen batch of approved patches deployed to a particular group of machines.

I thought WSUS had reporting function? All I see is a generic patch distribution summary based on either machine, product or patch.

Hi,

If you use SCE, please refer to the following:

How to View Microsoft Critical and Security Update Status Reports in Essentials

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff603540.aspx

How to View the Status of a Deployed Update in Essentials

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc339471.aspx

Thanks.

Not at the moment. We are in progress of deploying it. Using WSUS at the moment.

Still can't find reporting functionality. Very strange.

I select the group of patches I approved last week and try to generate report for total install for that group, but there is no option for that...

Hi,

Thanks for your update.

If you are using WSUS instead of SCE, please visit WSUS forum for help:

WSUS Forum

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=winserverwsus

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.