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Patches.

Missing updates, approving them, and jobs that install them.

Review and approve missing updates
Inventory, approve, schedule a job. Approving installs nothing by itself.
See updates from one source
The source menu keeps Windows Update, or winget, and hides the rest. Search matches the title or the KB.
Search the update list
Type a name, a KB, or an id. Rows that do not match drop out. Nothing is approved.
See updates you already approved
The status menu hides awaiting rows and keeps approved ones. Nothing is installed.
Decline an update you will not install
A declined update stays off every job. Approving and declining install nothing by themselves.
Put an update back to awaiting review
Back to review clears an approve or a decline. The update is in the queue again. Nothing is installed.
Approve every security update
One button approves every critical, important and security update still awaiting in the list. It does not install them.
Schedule a patch install
A job installs only what a person already approved, on the machines you pick, inside a window.
Install updates at a chosen time
When is now, or a time. A time waits. Now starts as soon as you confirm.
Leave the machine running after updates
Restart is if an update needs it, never, or always. Never leaves a needed restart pending.
Install updates on one machine
Machines is every machine in view, one group, or one machine. One machine leaves the others out.
Install updates on one site
Machines can be a group, not only one box. The path covers that site and anything nested under it.
Choose how long a patch job keeps trying
Four hours is the start. A day covers a machine that is off overnight. Three days is the longest.
Schedule only the updates you ticked
Schedule selected opens a job for those rows. It installs them even when they are still awaiting review.
Cancel a scheduled patch job
A job that is still waiting can be cancelled. The first press asks you to confirm.
Ask which updates to approve first
Discuss on Patches › updates fills a company-wide question. It does not send, and it does not approve.
See which machines are missing updates
Patches › machines is one row per machine. Missing… opens that machine's inventory under the table.