I want to take a minute and walk through the process a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 client goes through when processing Software Updates but before we get into that I'd like to explain how to find information specific to a particular update in the client side log files. When viewing the logs on the client you need to reference the GUID that is assigned to each update. To view this GUID for all your updates you can go into the console and anywhere that updates are displayed in a list, right click on the column header (where it has Bulletin ID, Article ID, etc…) and select View –> Add/Remove Columns. You then have to select “Unique Update ID” in the left list and then select “Add”. Now select “Move Up” until the Unique Update ID is the first one in the list on the right. Now if you look at the console, you will see the GUID as the first column in the window, then find your update and you now have the GUID for that update. You can see the updated console display here...