Netwacky87 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Hi! We are doing a Migration from System Center Essentials, to SCCM 2012 R2...I dont really want to store the updates on a server, is there any way in SCCM like there is in SCE, to download the updates from Microsoft Update instead of the SCCM Server? Thanks! Mart
andyrite Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Why not? The whole point is that you only download the updates once and the clients get them from the SCCM server.
localzuk Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Don't think so, no. SCCM deploys them like applications as far as I know, so the files have to be on a distribution point to do so. They're not exactly huge though. Our updates for Office 2010 and 2013, SCEP, SQL 2008 R2, TMG, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012 come to 25.5GB total.
Steve21 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Can't you just not configure SCCM to deal with them? Or do you still mean as in controlling via packages etc just direct downloading? Steve
Netwacky87 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Posted January 15, 2015 Sounds silly but we have about 40 computers, so in my mind, updates will just sit there a lot of the time doing nothing. Why waste disk space? We hardly ever reformat or have new PC's....Just seems a waste of 40GB+ which will be the size of our update folder.
localzuk Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 But instead, those 40 devices will go out to the net to download the same file 40 times, using a total of 1.6TB of your bandwidth instead - which is a waste of bandwidth.
sparkeh Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Not tried it but it looks like you can do this. Just looking at my update ADR and there is an option called "If software updates are not available on preferred distribution point or remote distribution point, download content from Microsoft Updates" - that should help. But as above I would just download the updates once and store them on the server
localzuk Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Not tried it but it looks like you can do this. Just looking at my update ADR and there is an option called "If software updates are not available on preferred distribution point or remote distribution point, download content from Microsoft Updates" - that should help. But as above I would just download the updates once and store them on the server How would you stop SCCM downloading them though - when you set them to deploy, it automatically starts downloading them straight away doesn't it?
cheredenine Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 How would you stop SCCM downloading them though - when you set them to deploy, it automatically starts downloading them straight away doesn't it? I don't think you would. SCCM is designed around managing deployments and updates, etc, for large enterprise environments where having a single store of update files makes a lot of sense compared to maybe a few thousand client PCs updating themselves individually with no data available on compliance. The ADR business means you can choose particular sets of updates for particular products and deploy them automatically, where the deployment process downloads them. If I remember correctly there is a client settings option to choose download locations for clients, but this is to provide a backup for clients that aren't always connected to SCCM on site; you'd still have to have the update feature setup and configured to install... Is 40gb that big of a deal to have hanging round? It is kind of handy to have a repository on hand for when a client needs it, especially as you can roll updates in to your Windows install image and add 'install updates' commands to your reimaging task sequence, however infrequent...
sparkeh Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 How would you stop SCCM downloading them though - when you set them to deploy, it automatically starts downloading them straight away doesn't it? Oh, not sure, haven't actually tried this in 2012 as I just use ADRs. I do know that I managed to send out updates without downloading them in 2007 but that was by accident and not intended - just assumed that it was the same but perhaps this isn't possible now.
cheredenine Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Oh, not sure, haven't actually tried this in 2012 as I just use ADRs. I do know that I managed to send out updates without downloading them in 2007 but that was by accident and not intended - just assumed that it was the same but perhaps this isn't possible now. Hmm.. You can manually add updates from the 'All Software Updates' list to a Software Update Group and assign that group to a Collection without downloading, but it usually does nothing... Clients in the collection will expect to get the updates from SCCM, though maybe with the alternate update source I mentioned before you could persuade them to download directly from the MS Update source online?
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