Scup catalogs adobe

As a result, big organizations spend a lot of money on these tools. Configuration Manager makes it effortless for IT admins to deploy updates to these third-party applications. We also saw some new vendors in market facilitating the deployment of third-party updates. They provide their catalogs with access to the latest version of applications. I am sure they first test the updates in their setup and then release it to their customers.

I will cover more information about these vendors in a separate post. When you go to software update point and enable third-party software updates, only then you get the option to subscribe to third-party update catalogs. Furthermore, you can publish these updates to WSUS and deploy it to clients. There are two types of catalogs available — Partner catalogs and Custom catalogs Microsoft recently published a list of supported software update catalogs for Configuration Manager. Some catalogs are freely available, and some catalogs have an additional cost associated with them.

Microsoft recommends checking with the catalog provider for details including pricing, support, and if the catalog supports in-console third-party updates. Select the server and in the bottom pane, right click Software Update Point and click Properties. In the above step you enabled third-party updates on SUP. The next step is to configure WSUS signing certificate. Both the above options are self-explanatory.

Microsoft gives you two options to manage the WSUS signing certificate. You can tell Configuration Manager to automatically manage the third-party WSUS signing certificate using a self-signed certificate. The setting sets the Windows Update agent policy to allow signed updates for an intranet Microsoft update service location. Adobe company provides custom catalogs. When you visit the link note that there is one catalog for Reader and one for Acrobat. The Acrobat updating always involves installing every MSP update in order.

You must also enter the catalog description. Click Next. We will now look at the steps to subscribe to this catalog.

On the right pane select Adobe Reader catalog and click Subscribe to Catalog. Notice that download URL is exactly the same that you provided while adding the catalog. Before creating subscription to Adobe Reader SCUP catalog, you must review and approve the catalog signing certificate.

Click View Certificate. On the Certificate window, click Install Certificate. Ensure that you import the certificate and close the certificate import wizard. After you have successfully subscribed to the catalog, you must synchronize the catalog so that you see the updates contained in this catalog.

Right click the Adobe Reader catalog and click Sync now. At this point perform a manual software updates synchronization. After you perform the software updates synchronization, go to Software Update Point component properties. You can set a custom schedule for the catalog and determine when you want to sync Adobe reader updates. This is optional, and you can do it later as well. I am going to set the schedule to run every 2 days.

From the log file you can see that the synchronization has been completed successfully. After you make any changes to products or classifications in SUP, you must manually synchronize the updates once.

You must review the software update point synchronization details using wsyncmgr. In the wsyncmgr. Wait until the sync completes. Once the SUP synchronization is complete, you can verify if the Adobe reader updates are now visible under all software updates. Since the list of software updates is usually long, to make it easier, type Adobe Reader in the search box and click Search.

Now again a lot of Adobe reader updates are displayed. Notice that updates have a blue icon instead of Green icon and when the updates have a blue icon its only metadata.

You cannot download and deploy those updates. Sort the updates using Date Released column to see the new released updates first. Click Next. To see the imported updates, click Updates Workspace. Under All Software Updates expand the folders. You will see list of updates here. In the above steps, we saw the steps to import and add catalogs to SCUP. We will now see how to publish the updates.

The steps are simple. Select any of the update that you want to publish. Right click and select Publish. Specify Publish Options :- There are 3 options that you see here. They are almost self explanatory. However read this before you select the publish option. Dear Mr. Prajwal Desai, I have an issue with 3rd party updates.

I have tried all the possible solutions but clients are still getting that old. There are 1 active jobs. I have same issue, the import fails when I want to create a catalog. I also wanted to know how to update the software like Java, adobe, firefox, google chrome, 7-zip, VLC, …. I installed and configured SCUP as per your guidance on blog. It would be a big help if you can tell what should I do to fix the issue!!

I have a small issue ,software update point shows like this however logs shows fine wcm. Actually, it does. I mean you have to retire them manually in SCUP and then re-publish. In my experience Adobe does not retire old software in their catalog. Adobe will retire Acrobat and Reader updates, but not some much Flash.

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