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Adding Superseded Support! - 31.Aug.2009 5:32:24 PM

matriumd

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I am one of 3 IT Admins and I havent been running the reports the last several months. To my suprise the other Admins werent updating the software.

I spent a long time unchecking all MS updates the were superseded and Cumulative. Once I updated, I lost all these patches! I read through your forums, and then I saw a post from May saying the same thing. Why cant you guys add a checkbox for superseded updates?

Every month you add support for the new updates, why not have the ones that supersed others be marked in the database? This would make things much easier for newer users, and if you guys get a bug like you did in May, we dont have to redo everything.

Or at least Create the ability to import a list by Kb Article

< Message edited by matriumd -- 31.Aug.2009 5:58:00 PM >

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RE: Adding Superseded Support! - 1.Sep.2009 1:43:05 AM

stelim

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Hi,

You don't have to do any unchecking of patches in order to add superseding logic. LANguard is aware of which patch supersedes another and it will only report the last patch in a supersede chain.
If update A supersedes update B which in turn supersedes update C, then LANguard will only report update A as missing. The same applies to reporting of installed updates.

Note: this does not apply to service packs. A service pack usually supersedes a lot of patches, but in such a case both the service pack and all the patches that are superseded by it will be reported.

(in reply to matriumd)

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