This was my first weekend attempting to deploy patches with desktop central, and while previous one machine patch deployments have gone well this has not. We have a total of about 58 machines, and here's the process I went through (manual deployment).

 

1. Run patch scan

2. Go to "Missing Patches"

3. Select All Patches

4. Click the "Install Patches" button.

5. Leave configuration defaults and click deploy.

 

To speed up the deployment after the configuration shows ready I use system tools to reboot all the machines, which again works fine.

 

However as I start to monitor that deployment via view configuration, the execution status summary starts to fill with machines failing.

 

I select the category and get a list of machines, The remark for many of them when I hover my mouse is repeated text of the following, either "Patch is not applicable for this target", or "Patch is already installed".

 

Then when I came back to check this morning lots of my machines are still listed as vulnerable or highly vulnerable.

 

Why didn't the rest of the patches that were suppose to install actually install?

 

Finally is there a "best" way to "real-time" view what the actual machines are doing in terms of their progress in deploying patches?