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WSUS 3.0 - Report showing success rates of workstation patches,

Hi Experts,
I've been tasked with providing management with a report showing success rates of WSUS patches for our desktop fleet (3000 workstations)
What is the best/closet report I can provide them with using the WSUS reporting feature that can highlight this,
Many thanks in advance
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anything guys?
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See if this help - After 24 hours, you can use the WSUS reporting feature to determine whether the updates have been deployed to the computers. To check the status of an update section (on "Update Status Summary report") from below
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708475(v=ws.10).aspx

For accessing reporting feature of WSUS, you are required to install report viewer from Microsoft, not sure they have changed though as it is based on .net still @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a941c6b2-64dd-4d03-9ca7-4017a0d164fd&displaylang=en
thanks for you response, however, I don't believe (based on articles I've been reading) that the report I'm wanting to produce for our client in possible using the native built in reporting in WSUS
probably a 3rd party tool or PowerShell could get me close,
I need a report summary showing a pie chart of how compliant all our workstations are, makes sense?
In forum, it shared that if you have Office Web Components installed on the reporting point, you can modify our reports to create those management graphs
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/866c686b-9662-4f1b-99f4-08922f7c84e3/snazzy-and-useful-patch-reports-lacking-in-sccm

This one used the script to crawl out the compliance check against update if you are interested
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wsus/archive/2008/06/20/baseline-compliance-report-using-public-wsus-views.aspx

then probably I suggest Solarwinds which has quite nice reporting stats which is useful for overall summary awareness http://www.solarwinds.com/patch-manager.aspx
OR Nessus is another candidate http://www.tenable.com/sc-dashboards/wsus-monitoring
sorry, none of these suggestion helped me,
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thanks for sharing. on related for your interest, you can find PS script samples for
- Find Last Installed Update via Windows Update Using WSUS
- Find Last Installed Update via Windows Update Using Remote COM or PSRemoting

For further fields to extract from summaryobject, you can check out this blog too
none of the suggestion offered by other experts helped me,