System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed

Software Update Groups

Update groups are one key to the software update workflow simplification in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Update groups streamline the functionality of update lists and update deployments into a single object. If you aren’t familiar with these objects from ConfigMgr 2007, don’t worry; the only thing you are missing is the headache that these two separate object types caused.

As the name implies, update groups reference a set of updates together so that they can be deployed together with the same parameters. Note the use of the word reference in the previous sentence. Update groups do not contain the actual updates; they contain a list of references to updates and are used to organize and assign updates to the ...