Creating Search Folder in SCCM 2007 – Software Updates

In Below Steps… with SCCM 2007 we can create Search Folders for software Updates, this will be very handy in every month patch criteria for getting exact patch lists in Updates repository.

 

In the Software Updates section, right click on Search Folders and choose New Folder,

give the new folder a name like Enterprise Searches (we willl store our yearly searches here)

    

Right click on our new folder and choose New Search Folder

 

select the following options from step 1 (in the screenshot),

BulletinID, Expired and Superseded

 

  

in step 2, Set the BulleinID to MS plus the last two digits of the year eg: MS11

 

Set Expired to No

 

Set Superseded to No

 

Make sure that Search All folders under this feature is selected and give the search a name, eg: 2011 patches

 1.2 Create a New Search Folder for New Monthly Releases

 

1.Right click the folder that you created under search folders and choose New Search Folder

 

2. In “Step 1: Select object properties to search” Choose the following:

               a. Bulletin ID

               b. Date Released

               c. Date Revised

               d. Expired

               e. Superseded

 

   

 3. In “Step 2: Edit the property’s search criteria”

               a. Bulletin ID

                       i. Set this to “MS”

               b. Date Released

                       ii. Set this to “Last 1 month”

               c. Date Revised

                       iii. Set this to “Last 1 month”

               d. Expired

                       iv. Set this to NO

               e. Superseded

                       v. Set this to NO

 

 4. In “Step3: Specify search option” put a check in “Search all folders under this feature”

5. In Step 4: Enter a name for the search folder a. Name the folder “Monthly Updates”

 

6. Click OK

     

 

Similarly you can also create except Collections in almost every place you can create. all the best