SCEP Definition Updates showing as 'not required'

I've seen this posted a couple of times by other people already, but in both cases there was never any response - so I'm trying again in the hope that somebody has seen it and figured it out now...

I have set-up and ADR for SCEP 2012 definition updates and it is fully working as expected.

However - if I do a Run Summarization on the Software Updates node, all the definition updates report 100% compliance BUT report back as 'not required' for all machines. Surely these should report as 'Installed'?

Other updates are correctly showing as 'Installed' - it's just the defs delivered through the ADR process that are wrong.

November 5th, 2013 11:39am

Yes, I know this is an old post, but Im trying to clean them up. Did you solve this problem, if so what was the solution?

Personally I never look at the console for numbers, I only look at the report, the console will always be behind. The report will always reflect the current situation.

Remember that SCEP SU are released 3 or 4 times a day, as soon as a new SU is released for SCEP the old SU will be no required. Since the console only get updated once every 24 hours, IMO it is easy to see why the number within the console will show as not required.

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January 17th, 2015 6:23pm

Thanks for the response Garth.

It's not really causing a problem - I was just curious I guess...

As you rightly say - much better and more accurate to rely on the report anyway.

January 19th, 2015 11:51am

Hello,

This is an old post but I will post my findings. Hope this will help somebody.

As I understand this behaviour is by design for Endpoint Protection definition updates, they do not report back status. You can see this in UpdateStore.log on clients. For Endpoint Protection definition updates there will be mentioned

ExcludeForStateReporting=TRUE

for standard updates we have

ExcludeForStateReporting=FALSE

Regards,

Pteris

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May 18th, 2015 3:19am

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