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  • 1.  Altiris Patch Management - Removing Patch packages

    Posted Apr 12, 2011 07:25 PM

    Our AUP for the Patch management plug-in has expired recently (and we are probably going to go stay with WSUS), however during my testing, It has downloaded over 3000 patch packages between Windows & Adobe.

    Is there any way to purge all those packages from the server to free up some space? 

     

    Thanks,

    Chris!



  • 2.  RE: Altiris Patch Management - Removing Patch packages
    Best Answer

    Posted Apr 13, 2011 01:43 AM

    If you're using Patch Management 7.0+ , then you can do the following:

    Select all downloaded bulletins from Patch Remediation Center's All software bulletins report, right-click and select Disable. Then, go to Manage - Jobs and Tasks - System Jobs and Tasks - Software - Patch Management - Check Software Update Package Integrity. Select 'Delete updates from the file system that are no longer in use?' checkbox and start the task; it should remove all previously disabled updates.



  • 3.  RE: Altiris Patch Management - Removing Patch packages

    Posted Apr 13, 2011 05:22 PM

    Thank you Valentin!

    Aside from it taking for ever to disable (I have some awesome hardware ;) ), it worked perfectly.