reduce huge update in sccm 2012 r2

I have installed sccm 2012 with SUP role installed too. I have trouble of huge update coming every week from Microsoft .I selected some classification of Updates like critical & security & updates & roll-ups .as I said users are complaining of huge updates and I decided to reduce unnecessary Updates. Is that a good Idea to omit category update and security and just having critical and roll-ups ? 

February 22nd, 2015 5:10am

I have installed sccm 2012 with SUP role installed too. I have trouble of huge update coming every week from Microsoft .I selected some classification of Updates like critical & security & updates & roll-ups .as I said users are complaining of huge updates and I decided to reduce unnecessary Updates. Is that a good Idea to omit category update and security and just having critical and roll-ups ? 

I recommend not to omit the "security" classification!

Microsoft use the word "critical" in several different ways, and "critical updates" are very different from "critical severity security updates".

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824684

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/security/gg309177.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc700845.aspx

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February 22nd, 2015 5:56am

...users are complaining of huge updates and I decided to reduce unnecessary Updates.  

How would you determine "unnecessary"?

Perhaps instead, you might consider reviewing your update deployment strategy/method/approach?
Do you deploy patches to computers in the daytime? Could you schedule deployments to occur at night?
Perhaps you could discuss with your organisation, and negotiate an agreed "maintenance hours" (you can use ConfigMgr Maintenance Windows for controlling that).

Complaints of disruption by updates can be difficult - but the answer should not result in not-patching - because not-patching in itself creates issues (security vulnerabilities, errors and bugs, and the absence of improved performance, and missing new features).

February 22nd, 2015 6:03am

...users are complaining of huge updates and I decided to reduce unnecessary Updates.  

How would you determine "unnecessary"?

Perhaps instead, you might consider reviewing your update deployment strategy/method/approach?
Do you deploy patches to computers in the daytime? Could you schedule deployments to occur at night?
Perhaps you could discuss with your organisation, and negotiate an agreed "maintenance hours" (you can use ConfigMgr Maintenance Windows for controlling that).

Complaints of disruption by updates can be difficult - but the answer should not result in not-patching - because not-patching in itself creates issues (security vulnerabilities, errors and bugs, and the absence of improved performance, and missing new feat

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February 22nd, 2015 7:09am

of course users are not complaining of the time of update but the size of updates are make them crazy because their C drive go full .they use disk clean up and delete c:\windows\softwareDestributon\download But that become full after a few week .

Ah, thanks for providing further information about the complaint.

So, the issue is, the C: drive on the computers of users is small?

The ConfigMgr client cache (ccmcache) and WUA cache (SoftwareDistribution) are both self-maintaining and will purge un-needed content after a time, but, in your case, it is not soon enough ?

You could consider deploying in a more-frequent cycle, so that the cached content is purged more quickly, but this means that more frequent updating activity would occur (and potentially more frequent disruption to users).

Ultimately, more space on C: would be of benefit, but that might not be easy for you to achieve (e.g. increasing the size of the volume), so, can you analyse the used-space vs free-space to determine what can be cleaned up? (eg temp files and other unnecessary data) ?

February 22nd, 2015 3:06pm

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