* clients configured to Download and Notify for needed updates.
* One client (for example) and WSUS server report 12 updates needed but only 3 were downloaded.
* client GUI shows all 12 as ready to install and if I run update, all 12 will install without error.
I've seen this behavior constantly and consider it "by design" - but when scripting updates this can cause a problem. The question is: "Why are only a subset of Needed updates downloaded, not all of them?" Superseded
updates are not part the issue - I've declined all superseded updates. All 12 updates are Needed and will install when I run the updates.
My expected behavior is all needed updates are downloaded and waiting on the machine to be given the install command but that doesn't happen in a lot of cases. I often see clients with 5 needed, 2 downloaded or 7 Needed, 5 downloaded, etc. I've
seen this behavior in multiple environments so it seems to be part of the normal function of WSUS. Everything works, just I don't understand the pre-download of only a subset of the Needed updates.
Because of this, when I script the installation I first check to see if the update "AlreadyDownloaded = True," if so I skip and if not then download the update. I wish I could skip this step and just run the installation command from PowerShell,
but if only some of the updates are present, then I have to download the rest first.
Thanks
