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patch staging, deployment, and reboot options, see Patch Staging and Deployment Schedule in the
online Help.
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If you have a licensed VCM Service Desk Integration implementation, the Service Desk
Connector dialog will appear prior to the VCM Patching Deploy Patches Wizard. For more
information about VCM Service Desk Integration, see
Getting Started with Service Desk Integration .
5. Select the machines and patches that you want to deploy, and then click Next . The Deploy Wizard
attempts to detect the patch or patches in the following order:
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On the Collector, the Deploy Wizard uses a previous download of the patch or patches.
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If the patches are not found on the Collector, the Deploy Wizard will attempt to locate the patch or
patches through the Internet.
If access to the Internet is denied, locate the patches manually and save them to the \\collector_
name\cmfiles$\SUM Downloads directory on your Collector machine.
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If the patch or patches are found on the Internet, you must select one of the following options:
Download at run time: Downloads the patch as part of the deploy job.
Download now: Downloads the patch separately from the deploy job.
6. Click Next .
7. Confirm the patches to include in the deployment, and then click Next .
8. Click Next to either schedule the deploy job or to instruct VCM Patching to execute the job
immediately. If you have licensed and activated VCM Service Desk Integration, the deploy job must be
approved through VCM Orchestrator before it can run.
9. Click Finish to complete the deploy job.
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