"Bob" <86c6c2e6-2146512712[ at ]news.postalias> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > I have WSUS 3.0 Automatic Approvals set to approve critical and security
> updates to my "Dell-9200" computer group. I also have the two "Revisions
> to Updates" options enabled. I can see my computers are in the
> "Dell-9200" computer group.
> A couple of days ago, I installed the first Office 2007 on one of the
> managed computers. Ever since then, WSUS is listing several critical and
> security updates for Office. Several of these are superseded by newer
> patches.
>
> I see in the "Approval" column that all of these have a status of "Not
> approved".
>
> Why is this?
I'm not sure exactly what your question is.
If your question is: Why are these unapproved updates showing as "Needed"?
If so, the answer is because, by default, all synchronized updates are
detectable in WSUS 3.0. As soon as you installed Office 2007 on the new
computer, it detected the availability of all Office 2007 updates during its
next detection event.
As for the superceded Office 2007 updates, you should consider marking them
as declined. It's quite likely that you will never installed them. As for
the others, marked "Not Approved", you should approve them.
If your question is: Why are they "Not Approved", after you set an Automatic
Approval rule -- the rule only applies to newly synchronized updates, unless
(in WSUS 3.0 only), you have actually RUN the rule against the existing
updates to change their status. You probably need to run the rule against
the existing updates.
--
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP
Independent WSUS Evangelist
MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007)
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E
Everything you need for WSUS is at
http://www.microsoft.com/wsus
And, almost everything else is at
http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com
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