UK bodies that use the Public Services Network (or PSN) or organisations accepting credit card payments required to comply with PCI DSS all have compliance requirements to maintain applications within a certain number of versions of the latest available release.Īnother reason for considering SCUP for these third-party updates is consistency and efficiency. Depending on the sector or organisation you work for, you might have a requirement to keep pace too. We need to keep pace with these updates to make sure that the vulnerabilities and CVEs addressed by the updated versions get into the hands of our users but it is a balance between time, effort and cost as are all things in business. Third-party applications as much as we need them can be the bain of an administrators life and the need to keep them up to date, especially when you look at heavily updated applications like Adobe Flash Player or Google Chrome. Where SCUP becomes really powerful is when we look beyond these out of the box catalogs and look at starting to patch other third-party software that doesn’t get delivered through Windows Updates normally and the primary reason is security. Adobe, Dell, Fujitsu and HP all provide catalogs however none of these are complete and cover their entire product line but the gesture is most welcome none-the-less. The downfall to the work done with SCUP up to now is that the out of the box catalogs that Microsoft give you access to are subject to that provided to Microsoft by the software vendors. If you read my two previous posts, Preparing Certificates and GPOs for System Center Update Publisher and Setting Up System Center Update Publisher, you will have already a working SCUP installation and integration with Configuration Manager and you will have the certificates and Group Policy Object settings in place for your clients to trust the updates distributed by SCUP.
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