CONFIGURATION MANAGER SOFTWARE UPDATES DRIVERS

So, you can probably untick these Classifications. It is highly unlikely that you care about deploying Feature Packs or Tools вЂ“ these are not security updates which provide protection.If you are using your own Antimalware product and are not using System Center Endpoint Protection or Windows Defender (Windows 10) and you do not care so much about Microsoft Office performing its own link/junk email filtering (because you handle this some other way) вЂ“ then the Definition Updates category can be de-selected.

CONFIGURATION MANAGER SOFTWARE UPDATES DRIVERS

In the screenshot below, these are typical selections made for Software Update Classifications, except for the вЂњInclude Microsoft Surface drivers and firmware updatesвЂќ option вЂ“ which should only be selected if you have those devices and actually desire to roll out firmware/drivers using Software Updates (most likely not!) We start by examining the configuration of the Software Update Point Site Component It is highly likely that SCCM is instructing the WSUS engine to synchronise more metadata than is necessary вЂ“ you may have selected to synchronise metadata about update classifications or products that you donвЂ™t use in your environment. Step 1: Validating the Products and Classifications Selected within Configuration Manager Today, with the arrival of more classes of updates for Windows 10 and the Windows 10 servicing model, the WSUS DB can become unmanageably large, but there are some simple steps we can take to ensure this is kept under control. The performance of the software updates process in general, and the Callisto software updates dashboard specifically, depends on the performance of the SQL databases for WSUS and for the Software Update Point tables in the Configuration Manager database.

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