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Patch Assessment gets it wrong?

Fairport

How does Sophos Patch Assessment (SPA) decide which patches are actually needed by a device?

We usually rely on WSUS to push out Microsoft updates. When SPA told us there were a bunch of Microsoft updates still rerquired by our PC's we took it at its word and have been rolling them out manually. Still no idea why WSUS should have missed them though :^\

On the other hand there's a Microsoft update that SPA claims a bunch of our PC's need - but Windows Update says this particular update isn't needed by those PC's - why should that be? o_O

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    So...

    Sophos Patch Assessment tells us that lots of our PC's have certain Microsoft updates missing.

    WSUS doesn't think those PC's need those updates - nor does Microsoft / Windows update online.

    My best guess here is that Microsoft's own update tools recognise that those updates aren't needed because they've been superceded by newer patches? And that Sophos Patch Assessment isn't able to ascertain this fact?

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    So...

    Sophos Patch Assessment tells us that lots of our PC's have certain Microsoft updates missing.

    WSUS doesn't think those PC's need those updates - nor does Microsoft / Windows update online.

    My best guess here is that Microsoft's own update tools recognise that those updates aren't needed because they've been superceded by newer patches? And that Sophos Patch Assessment isn't able to ascertain this fact?

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