Pushing out MS Updates

[L4ts]

As a newcomer to the world of SMS 2003, I have gone as far as setting it up in our test domain and managed to push agents to the clients. As far as I am aware, there are no problems so far.
One of the biggest reasons we would like to use SMS is to be able to push out the Microsoft's monthly security patches.
I have also downloaded and installed Windows Update Agent package and can see huge list of updates in Software Updates.
I have no idea what to do next as I am unable to find any sort of help on this. I would like to know how to pick certain updates and not push out all of them and not been able to find any help on microsoft's web page.
Any ideas?

 

[mib147]

First of all, you need to have a scan tool installed. Do you have one installed? If so, are you using MBSA or ITMU?

 

[L4ts]

I have the scan tool installed. Went through a MS TechNec doc called 'Deploying SMS 2003 in an Active Directory Environment'.
Also have the MBSA installed on the 2003 server.
If it helps, when I look at the Actions tab on 'Systems Management Properties' on client, I see the following:

Discovery Data Collection Cycle
File Collection Cycle
Hardware Inventory Cycle
Machine Policy Retrieval & Evaluation Cycle
Software Inventory Cycle
User Policy Retrieval & Evaluation Cycle
Windows Installed Source List Update Cycle.

not sure what to do next. Thanks.