How to View Microsoft Critical and Security Update Status Reports in Essentials
Applies To: System Center Essentials 2010
In System Center Essentials 2010, the presentation of reports for Microsoft critical and security updates has been reorganized to display updates grouped by Knowledge Base number or Microsoft Security Response Center bulletin number. Use the following procedure to view the report, which summarizes the update status for all computers, regardless of approval status, and sorts them by status: not needed, installed, needed, failed, and unknown. Only approved updates are counted in the Needed column of the report.
To view the Microsoft Critical and Security updates status report
In the Essentials console, click the Updates button. In the Updates Overview pane under Reports, click Microsoft Critical and Security Updates Status.
When the report is displayed, expand one of the Knowledge Base (KB) articles to view all related updates and their status by computer count. Click the linked KB article heading in the report to view it.
Click the numeric link in any status column to view the Update Deployment Status report, which provides additional details about update deployment on the affected computers.
See Also
Tasks
How to View the Status of a Deployed Update in Essentials
Concepts
About Update Management in Essentials