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Navigate to Patching | VCM Patching Administration | Windows | Job Manager | Running
to view the status of your job. If you have scheduled the job to run later, navigate to Patching |
VCM Patching Administration | Windows | Job Manager | Scheduled | Deployments .
If you have licensed and activated VCM Service Desk Integration, your Windows patching job will
appear in the Pending Response node until it is approved by VCM Service Desk Connector. For more
information about VCM Service Desk Integration, see
Getting Started with Service Desk Integration .
When the deployment completes, VCM Patching automatically runs a delta collection of the VCM
Patching Security Bulletins filter set so that the assessment information is up-to-date.
10. As a final verification step, VMware recommends that you run a post-deployment assessment to
verify that the patches you deployed are now marked as Patched in the node summary.
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If the machine is in a pending reboot state, the machine is displayed as Not Patched.
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At any point, if a failure occurs in the patch deployment job, the System Administrator
should check the status of the system, resolve any issues as necessary, and then reassess.
For information about scheduled deployments for Windows machines, see the online Help.
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