Define Applicability Rules Page

Use the Define Applicability Rules page in the System Center Updates Publisher Create Update Wizard or Modify Update Wizard to configure the rules that verify that the software update is applicable to the computer. Applicability rules typically check for the existence of a file, file version less than the configured version, registry key, and so on.

Note

Software updates created without applicability rules and published to the update source will never be applicable to clients and therefore never installed. You should always create software updates with at least one applicability rule.

This page contains the following UI elements:

• Expression Builder
  Specifies the applicability rules for the software update definition. For more information about creating rules, see How to Create Rules in Updates Publisher

• XML View
  Provides an Extensible Markup Language (XML) read-only view of the defined prerequisite rules.

• Previous
  Displays the previous page of the wizard.

• Next
  Displays the next page of the wizard.

• Finish
  Displays the Summary page of the wizard.

• Cancel
  Discards the settings and exits the wizard.

See Also

Tasks

How to Create a Software Update Definition
How to Create Rules in Updates Publisher
How to Modify a Software Update Definition
How to Use the Expression Builder

Concepts

About the Create Update Wizard and Modify Update Wizard

Other Resources

Create/Modify Update Wizard
Managing Software Updates
Updates Publisher Wizards