MEM Patching Optimizer Overview

MEM Patching Optimizer is a free, easy-to-use tool from Patch My PC that helps analyze your WSUS & ConfigMgr environment for known issues and provides recommended best practices.

Ensuring your environment is performing optimally is a key component of keeping your devices up to date, however, it isn’t always an easy thing to maintain. That’s where the MEM Patching Optimizer can help!

When you open the MEM Patching Optimizer, it will run various tests against WSUS and SUSDB and display the results of those tests as follows

– Failed Tests
– Passed Tests
– Warnings
– Not Applicable

Within the results displayed you will see the current configuration compared with the recommended configuration, as well as a link to a relevant KB article detailing the recommendations.

MEM Patching Optimizer Features

Test SUSDB Response Time
Check that nclLocalizedPropertyID & nclSupercededUpdateID Indexes exist in SUSDB
Validate that all WSUSContent paths exist & match
Validate that WSUSContent and UpdateServicesPackages folders have the correct permissions
Checks the WSUS App Pool in IIS is running
Check WSUS Administration site for the following
- Queue length matches the Microsoft recommendation
- Idle timeout matches the Microsoft recommendation
- Private memory limit matches the Microsoft recommendation
- Regular time interval matches the Microsoft recommendation
- App pool identity matches the Microsoft recommendation
Checks that the number of superseded & undeclined updates are within recommended limits
Validate that the IIS WSUSContent directory has the correct authentication configured
Checks local WSUS version against the Microsoft supportability matrix
Checks ConfigMgr version against the Microsoft supportability matrix
Tests connectivity to Patch My PC required and option URLs
Run specific tests and save your config
Auto updater to ensure MEM Patching Optimizer is always up to date.
Export test results to CSV
Verbose log file