Hi All,

Can some one help with the understanding of "Not Required" software updates. How does actually SCCM decides why a particular software update is not required for a machine.

Rgs,

Hi, The detection method for if an update is applicable comes with the WSUS component so, the WSUS client which is configured by the SCCM client policy to use the SUP as a WSUS servern.

The client downloads infiormation about all updates and how they are detected from the SUP and then it sends the result to the MP that processes which updates are applicable or not into the SCCM DB.
So it it the same way the Windows Update agent uses WSUS and Microsoft Update detects which updates are applicable.

Regards,
Jrgen

Hello Jorgen,

Understood the process and Good Explanation.   Even I have same concerns raised by one of my customer. could you please get me  is that any Microsoft article specified? why it's not required ?

It would be great if you could share me the MS article.

Thanks,

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Dev

Thanks.  I've got 2500 Windows 7 SP1 machines with Lync 2013 installed and I'm trying to install Office 2013 SP1 update kb2850036.  But SCCM 2012 R2 says only 300 of my machines require the update.   Lync is the only 2013 component we've got.