Hi all,

I'm deploying software updates on a monthly basis for several device collections. To notify our customers, we want to sent out 2 automated e-mails every month:

• Mail 1 (Pre-updates): Notify customer that Software Updates will be applied in x days. Included with a list of servers that will be impacted.
• Mail 2 (After updates): Notify customer which updates were installed on each server in the list from e-mail 1.

Is something like this possible out-of-the-box with SCCM 2012 ? Are there any products on the market that provide a solution for this ? Is it possible with scripting ? 

Does anyone have experience with this ?

Kind Regards,

J. Monnens

You might be able to do a subscription with Reports.   You would have to have one subscription per person.   The reports are normally by deployment group or collection so you would have to setup your collections per person as well.    

You might need to run the report manually and then send them out.

JR

• Marked as answer by Joyce LMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Thursday, January 09, 2014 10:45 AM

You might be able to do a subscription with Reports.   You would have to have one subscription per person.   The reports are normally by deployment group or collection so you would have to setup your collections per person as well.    

You might need to run the report manually and then send them out.

JR

• Marked as answer by Joyce LMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Thursday, January 09, 2014 10:45 AM

It can be achieved by creating a two subscription ie to get in detail report of each patches you can create a subscription based on  software updates compliance category  report collection vs update list and a schedule to send an email Pre-patching and post patching so that your requirement is fulfilled.

It can be achieved by creating a two subscription ie to get in detail report of each patches you can create a subscription based on  software updates compliance category  report collection vs update list and a schedule to send an email Pre-patching and post patching so that your requirement is fulfilled.

it can be pulled using the below query in the thread, you can get the installed and applicable patches detail from it.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/ae850a4f-e819-4831-9d75-a6439b1910d1/patch-compliance-report-to-triage-patching?forum=configmgrreporting#c335631c-9b2e-4604-9bde-960aeaebd0