PENDING Why there is limitation of Product - Category in SCCM software Updates?

[mani]

Hi Team,
First of all, thanks a lot for the articles getting published.

We have been trying third part software update, but found that there is a limitation in "Product". Only 100 unique products allowed by SCCM. Is there any tweak we can do to overcome this? Screenshot - https://www.prajwaldesai.com/wp-con...Software-Updates-Using-SCCM-2012-R2-Snap9.jpg

According microsoft they announced with latest version WSUS, this would get resolved but i didnt found that working.

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thanks
Manikandan

 

[Prajwal Desai]

What are the products that you aren't seeing in the list ?.

 

[mani]

Actually we were doing a POC to provide third party update catalog. We want to have multiple products, like 7-Zip,vlc,etc . These categories overall count comes around 200.

I'm able to generate catalog, during catalog synchronize in SCCM, we are getting "SyncUpdateCatalog: Exception Message: Publishing operation failed, too many locally published categories.".

Log File Name - "SMS_ISVUPDATES_SYNCAGENT"
CM Version - 1806.
Windows Server - 2016.

Sample Catalog - XML part, The highlighted portion we used to mention category.

<smc:SoftwareDistributionPackage SchemaVersion="1.0">
<sdp: Properties PackageID="965F5817-2F30-48A4-B232-94480B868225" CreationDate="2017-08-09T20:03:34.214Z" VendorName="Adobe Systems, Inc." PublicationState="Published" CanSourceBeRequired="false" UpdateType="Software">
<sdp:MoreInfoUrl>http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb17-24.html</sdp:MoreInfoUrl>
<sdp:SupportUrl>http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb17-24.html</sdp:SupportUrl>
<sdp: ProductName>Adobe Reader</sdp: ProductName>
</sdp: Properties>


MSDN forum link - https://social.technet.microsoft.co...t-similar-to-scup?forum=configmanagersecurity

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thanks
Manikandan R.