SnaPatch – How To

Navigating SnaPatch Main Window

To get started, launch the SnaPatch application and you will be presented with the main window. From there, you can access the following icons to begin your patch management process:

Dashboard Icon

Click the Dashboard icon to view the history of deployments and any ongoing deployments that are currently in progress.

Windows Updates Icon

Click the Windows Updates icon to view all the available updates within your Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager environment.

Schedule Icon

Click the Schedule Icon to view the schedule tasks you have created.

SnaPatch Icon

Click the SnaPatch Icon to start the SnaPatch Patch Management Wizard.

SnaPatch Collections

From the first window you can see data the machine collections that are from your SCCM environment.

SnaPatch Right Click

Once you have selected your servers, you can right-click each server to perform various administration functions such as Remote Desktop, Remote Powershell, Computer Management, Ping, Open/Edit Comments, Show list of missing updates, Show list of installed updates, and Computer Details.

SnaPatch Deploy

Choose the machines you want to snapshot and deploy patches too and click on Add.

SnaPatch Update Group

Once you have chosen all the machines that are ready to be patched, click on the Green Arrow.

In the next Window, you can choose Windows Updates you would like to deploy to your chosen servers.

When you have chosen all the updates you wish to deploy, choose either Create & Deploy Update Group (which will be a new update group you can specify) or Deploy to Existing Update Group.

For this example, we are choosing an Existing Update Group. Highlight the Group you wish to deploy to and click on Select.

SnaPatch Schedule

You will now be prompted to create the deployment schedule. Click on Schedule Job.

Click on New to start the creation of a new deployment schedule.

Create the new schedule, keeping in mind, this is when the Snapshots will start and then the deployment will kick off.

Once you have completed the schedule, click on OK.

SnaPatch Maintenance Window

Now you can create the Maintenance Window for deployment. Choose an appropriate duration for the maintenance window to run, factoring in additional time for your servers to complete a successful snapshot and for patch deployment. Once you have set an appropriate time frame, click on Finish.

SnaPatch Finished

With all of these steps completed, your virtual servers will have a snapshot taken and updates will be deployed to them all within the maintenance window you have scheduled. If you have set up email notifications, you will receive these throughout the Server Snapshot and Update Deployment Process.

Thats all there is to using SnaPatch Patch Management Software for Microsoft SCCM.

If you have setup email notifications, you will receive these throughout the Server Snapshot and Update Deployment Process.