Hello Forum.
My question is regarding how WSUS deals with .Net patches (In the past I've already posted alike questions and got general response. This time I have a concrete example and need more details, please).
Scenario:
1. Used the following options in WSUS Generator:
Windows 8.1\Windows 2012 R2 x64
use security only updates instead of quality
2. WSUS generator successfully downloaded many patches.
I Filtered patches for 2017 only : around 30 security -only patches were downloaded for 2017, that includes patches for OS, cumulative December patche for IE, cumulative December patch for Adobe Flash Player and 15 patches for .Net
3. Run WSUS installer on Windows Server 2012 R2.
Only 13 patches dated 2017 were successfully installed.
4. I Compared a list of 2017 patches in the glb folder (30 patches) and a list on installed patches (13 in total) and found that the gap (30-13) is related to .Net patches.
Seems like .Net patches were not installed by WSUS: I do not see them in Registry keys .
(My server has .Net 3.5 and .Net 4.5.1 installed )
My question is : in what way WSUS installer deals with .net patches ? Does it install all .Net patches from glb folder ? Does it install only those that relevant for the concrete machine ?
Where I can see a list of installed .Net patches ? Only in Registry ?
Thanks