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We have a an estate with LUA 2.3.1, SEPM 12.1 RU4 and a mix of Windows x86/x64 clients 12.1, 12.1RU1, 12.1RU2, 12.1RU3 & 12.1 RU4.

We currently download all components for each of those products on our LUA and it uses a tremendous amount of storage space.  I know we don't need to download all of that having read support articles as we download definitions from the LUA, deliver to the SEPMs (which are all now 12.1 RU4 64-bit) and the clients download definitions from them.

I now know that I only need to download the "Manager" specific updates as our clients don't update from the LUAs however I need to know one thing.  Do I still need to download the manager updates for all versions (i.e. 12.1, 12.1RU1, 12.1RU2, 12.1RU3 & 12.1 RU4 because I have all of those versions of clients) or do I just need to download the manager updates for 12.1RU4?

Thanks.

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only 12.1.4 that would update all the previous clients.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/sep-1214-and-liveupdate-administrator-23299

I should clarify the question should be:

Do I still need to download the manager updates for all versions (12.1, 12.1RU2 & 12.1RU4)?

They are the definition sets available in LUA covering all the versions we use.

Thanks Rafeeq but that seems to go agains what Mick said in his solution in the linked thread you provided.  He seems to advise downloading the components for all 3 versions as the LUA won't download duplicate files.

12.1.4 can update all previous versions. Its backward compatible. 

You can confirm by just selecting 12.1.4 defs , that would update your earlier versions too.

HI Ianmd,

Even if you select all the different versions on the LUA, the LUA is intelligent enough to know which parts of previous versions it has downloaded so will not download them again if it's already included in a later release or has already downloaded them. So it doesn't hurt to have all the versions of your current client in the LUA it will just take the LUA a few minutes longer to cross reference the catalogue for the different versions before downloading.