Staging Patch Management Bulletins
phillyfish
September 10th, 2008
I am cutting over to Altiris Patch Management to deliver all my client MS Patches but I keep running into one nagging issue with preparing the patches. From time to time a get the following message: "Software Bulletin MS*** is not ready for distribution. Please ensure that this Software Bulletin is Staged before creating a Software Update Task" when trying to use the task wizard. And once I get this message for a bulletin there is no way I can use the wizard to setup a task. The bulletin is staged (an re-staged and un-staged and re-staged and deleted and recreated all to no avail.) What am I doing wrong?
Any solutions to this? I am
Any solutions to this? I am experiencing the same issue on one of our NS servers.
The original post was almost a year ago
Have you performed the steps that phillyfish mentioned? Do the number of updates = the # of downloads?
Jim Harings
Technical Solutions Consultant
Xcend Group
http://xcendgroup.com
The Patch is staged, I have
The Patch is staged, I have the same issue in a staged patch gives an error of "the software bulletin is not ready for distribution" when trying to access teh wizard to create the patch Task.
Multiple things to check
Go to http://kb.altiris.com and search for 'not ready for distribution' - you will see multiple KB articles that address this issue.
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Product Manager
Symantec
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