MS Patch is relevant, deploy it and action reports back NOT relevant

(imported comment written by Anuj_Attree91)

Hi Ben,

The Systems details in use are:

  1. Windows XP SP2

  2. Word, Excel, Powerpoint viewer 2003

Following troubleshooting has been done to rectify the issue:

  1. tried to manually install the patch MS07-042 (KB936048). But the process exits saying that the patch or the functionality of this patch already in the system. However Bigfix console still shows MS07-042 missing.

  2. updated the system using windows update and mbsa report shows all green for windows as well as office patches. However Bigfix console still shows this patch missing.

  3. This has been tested on 5-6 systems and the results are same (negative). Also around 1300 systems are showing NON Compliance due this missing patch in Bigfix.

But, i got success in on 4-5 systems yesterday which were earlier showing MS07-042 patch missing in Bigfix. I went to office patches site http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/. The site requires 2 addons before proceeding for patches installation:

  1. Office Genuine Advantage Validation Tool

  2. Office Update Installation Engine

After installing these 2 add ons the systems were not showing MS07-042 patch missing in Bigfix.

Now the problem is we can’t connect each desktop to the internet and do this task manually. So i’m looking for a solution to do this automatically from Bigfix/some other way…

Need your help in this on urgent basis…