NEW SCCM Windows Updates

[Pootietang]

Greetings everyone,
can someone tell me why the sms agent won't install subsequent updates during the same maintenance window? When I schedule required updates, some of which require being installed separately from other updates, these additional updates don't install until the next maintenance window. You would think when the initial updates install and the computer restarts, any additional patches would install when there is ample maintenance window remaining. I've set the option "If any update in this deployment requires a system restart, run updates deployment evaluation cycle after restart". Apparently, this doesn't do the trick.

Thanks in advance,
Pootietang

 

[Garth]

What do the log say is happening?

 

[Pootietang]

Thanks for the reply Garth,
my updatesdeployment.log (and the previous archive) shows numerous:
update (site_blah-blah/sum_blah-blah) added to the targeted list of deployment ({E2Df0BLAH-BLAH...})
Ending with "Optional Assignment, no advance download needed". The log timestamps begin and end 8+ hrs after the nights update installation.
Updateshandler.log ends with "Updates scan comnpletion received, result = 0x0. Initiating updates scan for checking applicability" directly at the beginning of the maintenance window.

Pootie

 

[Garth]

So what you are saying is that the logs don't see any other updates. Is that right?

 

[Pootietang]

Yes, and there are two updates listed as "Available" in the Software Center. The deployment has a past due deadline. I also just added another computer to the deployment collection. It's Updatesdeployment.log shows:
EnumerateUpdates for action (UpdateActionInstall) - Total actionable updates = 2
In Software Center, they also show as "available" instead of "past due". The updates are "Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM CU (KB4583457) and "Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR (KB4583456). Does it have something to do with SQL patching?

 

[Garth]

It could very well be. Not all SU can be install silently. SQL and SharePoint both have these type of SU.

 

[Pootietang]

Thanks Garth,
I added two more machines to the target collection and all other patches installed except the SQL patches. Going to chalk it up as normal operation with regards to SQL patching.
Would be nice to see the behavior documented in the Microsoft Update Catalog listing of the patches.
Thanks for replies!