Hello everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. I am relatively new to Landesk patching, and there is one big question that I have been meaning to ask but never got around to it, so I'll go ahead and ask it now.
I find that when I'm patching systems, often I will have multiple versions of the same patch. For example, I might have:
MS13-099 (46 machines detected)
MS13-099_MSU (369 machines detected)
The MSU patch usually shows more machines as needing the patch, but since the number of detected machines differs so greatly, I usually deploy both patches to ensure that all machines needing the patch get it. Is this neccesary? What is the difference between the MSU version of the patch and the non-MSU version? Should I be deploying both or just the one with the higher number of detections?
I also run into this situation where I'll have some patches that have an INTL version and then a MUI_ENU version. I only want to deploy English patches but again sometimes the number of detections differs so greatly that I deploy both anyway to be safe. Any insight into this that can help me optimize our patch deployment is much appreciated. Merry Christmas!
Josh