Getting Started with System Center Updates Publisher 2011

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What’s New in Updates Publisher 2011

Operating System and Software Requirements

Installing Updates Publisher 2011

Supported Languages for the Binary File, Title, and Descriptions

Updates Publisher 2011 provides the following:

• An improved interface that gives you better control of managing software updates.
  
  
• A new automatic publication type with which Updates Publisher 2011 can query Configuration Manager to determine whether the selected software update or software update bundle is published with full content or only metadata. For more information, see How to Publish Software Updates and Software Update Bundles or How to Publish Software Updates Publications.
  
  
• The new Software Update Cleanup Wizard that you can use to expire software updates that exist on the update server, but are not in the Updates Publisher 2011 repository. For more information, see How to Expire Unreferenced Software Updates.
  
  
• The ability to create software update bundles. For more information, see How to Create a Software Update Bundle.
  
  
• The ability to create prerequisite and superseded updates as part of software update definition. For more information, see How to Create a Software Update.
  
  

Updates Publisher 2011 is supported on the following operating systems:

• The Windows Vista operating system
  
  
• The 64-bit editions of the Windows Vista operating system
  
  
• The 64-bit editions of the Windows 7 operating system
  
  
• The 32-bit editions of the Windows 7 operating system
  
  
• The Windows Server 2008 operating system
  
  
• The Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system
  
  

Updates Publisher 2011 requires the following software:

Important
If the required software is not installed on the computer, the Updates Publisher 2011 Setup stops installing Updates Publisher 2011 and provides a link to download locations for the missing software.

• Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (WSUS 3.0 SP2) and Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 hotfix.
  
  Download Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=200949) from the Microsoft Download Center.
  
  Article 2530678 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=219179) to download the WSUS 3.0 SP2 update package on Microsoft Support.
  
  
  • If Updates Publisher 2011 and the update server are installed on the same computer, WSUS (full) must be installed.
    
    
  • If Updates Publisher 2011 and the update server are installed on separate computers, the WSUS Administrative console must be installed on the Updates Publisher 2011 computer.
    
    
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Download Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=186913) from the Microsoft Download Center.
  
  

Download Updates Publisher 2011 from

System Center Updates Publisher Download (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=219007) in the Microsoft Download Center.

Updates Publisher 2011 provides four workspaces that you can use to publish software updates.

• Catalog workspace: In this workspace, you can add software updates catalog subscriptions and then import the software updates from the catalogs into the Updates Publisher 2011 repository. You can also edit or remove a subscription from the workspace. For more information, see Managing Software Updates Catalogs.
  
  
• Update workspace: In this workspace, you can create and edit software updates and software update bundles, assign a software update or bundle to a publication, publish a software update and bundle, export a software update or bundle to another Updates Publisher 2011 repository, and more. For more information, see Managing Software Updates.
  
  
• Publications workspace: In this workspace, you can publish or export software updates and bundles that have been assigned to a publication (software updates are assigned to a publication in the Updates workspace). You can also remove a software update or bundle from a publication, rename a publication, and delete a publication. For more information, see Managing Publications.
  
  
• Rules workspace: In this workspace, you can create, edit, and delete applicability rules that can be applied when a software update is deployed. Software updates and bundles can have two types of applicability rules: installable rules and installed rules. Installable rules are used to determine whether the software update must be installed. Installed rules are used to verify whether the software update is already installed on the computer. For more information, see Managing Applicability Rules.
  
  

Note
Updates Publisher 2011 is available only in English.

Updates Publisher 2011 supports multiple languages in the following ways:

• When publishing software updates, you can specify the language of the software update binary file. You can also specify that the binary is language neutral. The following languages are supported:
  
  
  • Arabic
    
    
  • Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.)
    
    
  • Chinese (Traditional)
    
    
  • Chinese (Simplified)
    
    
  • Czech
    
    
  • Danish
    
    
  • Dutch
    
    
  • English
    
    
  • Finnish
    
    
  • French
    
    
  • German
    
    
  • Greek
    
    
  • Hebrew
    
    
  • Hungarian
    
    
  • Italian
    
    
  • Japanese
    
    
  • Korean
    
    
  • Norwegian
    
    
  • Polish
    
    
  • Portuguese
    
    
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
    
    
  • Russian
    
    
  • Spanish
    
    
  • Swedish
    
    
  • Turkish
    
    
• When creating or editing a software update, you can specify titles and descriptions for several languages. This is helpful when exporting and when publishing software updates.
  
  When exporting or publishing software updates, Updates Publisher 2011 displays the title and description of the software update based on locale of the computer. For example, imagine that you create a software update that has an English and Spanish title. If you create the software update on a computer whose locale is English, by default, you would see the title and description in English. If you then exported or published the software update to a computer whose locale is Spanish, by default, you would see the title and description in Spanish.
  
  Updates Publisher 2011 supports the following languages for the software update titles and descriptions.
  
  
  • Chinese (Traditional)
    
    
  • Chinese (Simplified)
    
    
  • English
    
    
  • French
    
    
  • German
    
    
  • Italian
    
    
  • Japanese
    
    
  • Korean
    
    
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
    
    
  • Russian
    
    
  • Spanish
    
    

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