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26 Dell OEM Solution - Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010
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DELL CONFIDENTIAL – PRELIMINARY 6/14/10 - FOR PROOF ONLY
Updating Managed Systems with Dell Catalog
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To manage updates in Essentials 2010, access the Updates Overview pane by
clicking the Updates button in the Essentials console. The overview pane
allows you to easily view updates, determine which updates are needed by
managed computers, centrally deploy updates to those computers, and view
deployment and other related reports.
In Essentials 2010, you can import catalogs and distribute software and
updates from Dell to your IT environment. Essentials 2010 can detect
available pre-verified partner catalogs based on scans of your environment, or
you can import a catalog from a specified URL. The catalog content provided
by hardware and software vendors is compressed into a .cab file, and usually
signed by a certificate corresponding to that vendor. Use the following
procedures to acquire content from a catalog.
Perform the following steps to import updates from partner catalogs (Dell
Catalogs):
1
In the Essentials console, click Updates and then click Import updates
from partner catalogs in the
Updates Overview pane.
2 When the Update Catalog Import Wizard is displayed, click Next .
NOTE: A dialog box is displayed that warns you that files downloaded from
the Internet can potentially harm your computer and you must confirm if you
want to continue. Click Yes to proceed.
3 On the Select Product Catalog page, click Yes . Import the specified
catalog to import a partner updates catalog, select the Dell catalog from
the drop-down list, and click
Next .
NOTE: If you choose to import a catalog from a specific URL or file location,
click No. Type the Dell ftp URL (ftp://ftp.dell.com or http://ftp.dell.com) into the
text box provided - and click Next.
4 On the Review the Catalog page, a progress bar is displayed while
Essentials locates the catalog. A dialog box is displayed with details about
the update source, warning you that content from catalogs can potentially
harm computers. If you trust the source, click
Yes otherwise, click No .
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