in line with Fixlet 110005, how soon can we expect a fixlet like it for build 1607 to Windows 10?
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Does anyone know of a fixlet for this that is reasonably automated? The one from IBM is only marginally easier than running windows update manually.
This works well for me except for the issue with being unable to empty the download directory. I have only been doing it as an offer to users so far and telling them to monitor the Offer Status Monitor. If anyone knows how to engineer around the Download directory thing, I’d like to here it.
How do you mean it’s only marginally easier than running Windows Updates manually?
We’ve been testing it on a number of machines as offers and it’s fantastically easier than running Windows Updates manually once you cache the ISO on your root server?
Bill
What have you done to engineer around the directory download empty bug?
I have not had issues with the directory download in my environment
Because it’s as painful, at best as updating Java. If I have to download the patch manually, then upload it to bigfix, then set up the fixlet to work, (and as we’ve a mix of Pro and Educational, I have to do all this twice), and given that doing this in bigfix is the exact opposite of intuitive or easy, by the time I get this done, uploaded and tested, I could have 50 machines updating manually.
How should it work? select fixlet, take default action, select machines you want to apply fixlet to.
running fixlets that require manual downloads of files has been, at best, tedious. That’s when it works correctly. It often doesn’t. Hence me asking if anyone had built a fixlet that lets me bypass this particular joyous process.
Since the files required to do these feature updates are full ISO images, Microsoft does not provide them as a generally available download, so we were unable to use the same process as a normal patch fixlet. If manually downloading and renaming the files to their SHA1 is too much effort, then there are two other options you can use:
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Setup a custom repo to host the downloads from: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Using%20the%20Custom%20Repository%20Setting%20feature
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If you have BigFix OSD, you can upload the .iso files into the Image Library dashboard in the console, and then deploy them using the ‘Windows in-place upgrade’ fixlets.
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