How to Create a Customized Updates View in Essentials

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Applies To: System Center Essentials 2010

In System Center Essentials 2010, you can customize your view of available updates. New updates can be filtered by whether they are approved or declined, by whether they are mandatory, by product and product family, by classification (critical, security, and others), or by the date they were released. Use the following procedure to create a custom view of updates.

To set up a custom updates view

  1. In the Essentials console, click the Updates button, and then click All Updates.

  2. In the Tasks pane, click New View.

  3. When the Create New Updates View dialog box opens, type a name for the new view and an optional description in the text boxes provided, and then select one or more criteria from the list to apply to the view. In the Criteria description box, click the underlined text to edit the values.

    1. With a specified ‘Approval’ attribute—view updates with an approval status of any, approved, declined, or unapproved.

    2. With a specified ‘Mandatory’ attribute—view updates based on whether they are mandatory or not by selecting true or false.

    3. With a specified ‘Needed’ attribute— view updates based on whether they are needed or not by selecting true or false.

    4. Applicable with specified products—select the products or product family to include in the custom view.

    5. With specified update classifications—select the type of updates you want to include in the custom view.

    6. Released within a specified time frame—select to view updates released anytime or those released within the past 30 or 60 days.

    7. Deploy to specified computer groups—select the computer group or groups to include in the custom view.

      Note

      If you specify a computer group for the custom view, you can only view approved updates. This attribute should not be used to customize a view with an approval status of unapproved, declined, or any.

  4. Click OK after completing the configuration for the selected criteria. After the new view has been created, Essentials will apply the settings and display the new view. This custom view will be accessible from the list of all available views in the navigation pane.

See Also

Tasks

How to View Microsoft Critical and Security Update Status Reports in Essentials
How to View the Status of a Deployed Update in Essentials
How to View Update Package Details in Essentials