Which one is better Ivanti Patch for Windows or Microsoft SCCM ?
Any input in that, I have done POC for Ivanti Patch for Windows and Microsoft SCCM both, I found Ivanti as light,sleek and easy to use. Any Pro's and Con's will be helpful.
View ArticleDeployment Configuration screen: Temporary vs. Permanent Template...
Description During setup of a patch deployment within Protect you will eventually get to the "Deployment Configuration" screen (Figure 1). The deployment templates that you already have configured can...
View ArticleDeployment Stays at Files Copied And No Patches Are Installed
Purpose The purpose of this document is to explain what causes deployments to stay at the status of 'Files Copied' but never install any patches after all files are copied to the target machines....
View ArticleProtect Detects A Patch That Should Not Be Detected As Missing
SymptomsProtect is detecting a Patch that should not be detected as missing. Resolution NOTE: Before performing the following, please update to the latest XML data by going to Help > Refresh...
View ArticleUpdating Patch Definition And Install files To A Non-internet Facing Console...
Purpose This document explains how to transfer data and patch files manually from a Shavlik Protect Console on a Internet facing network, to a Protect Console on a Secure network with no internet...
View ArticlePWS Agent causing laptop to freeze at startup?
Hi everyone, we have recently implemented PWS 2018 and deployed agents to the end user laptops. A lot of the end users are now complaining that their laptops are freezing before the welcome screen,...
View ArticleScheduled Console task kicked off week early
I am having an issue with schedules kicking off a week early. See screenshot. My schedule is set to 3rd Tuesday but it ran last night and it scheduled to run again next week. This is the second...
View ArticleURL exception list for Shavlik Protect - Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers...
Overview This document provides a list of required URL addresses for Shavlik Protect and Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers to allow: Patch executable download.Patch content definition download.Online...
View ArticleAre Patches executed from elevated command prompt?
The event logs clearly show the command line execution of patches, but are they being executed from an elevated command prompt? Reason we are asking is because several of the Exchange Security patches...
View ArticlePatch Scan templates - Baseline & Exception
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone is aware of a way to Add a Baseline and Exception Patch group to a Scan template. I have a Number of baselines in play with a customer but also have a few KB's I want...
View ArticleError 106 - Access Denied; Credentials may be invalid Windows 10 - 1709, 1803
Overview You receive this error when scanning Error 106 when scanning a Windows 10 machine after upgrading to 1709 or newer version. Microsoft changed the way Windows 1709+ handles SPN's for...
View ArticleOffline Installation / DB
Hi. I'm looking to complete an Ivanti setup leveraging a Protect Master rollup console access to the internet, console w/o internet access, and a distribution server. Is there a preference on where...
View ArticleServer is installing patches 12 hours late
Hi all, I'm after some help please.Ran a deployment to our SQL servers on Friday the 20th, all of them ran fine but one of them decided to install patches and vmware tools at 15:00 instead of 03:00,...
View ArticleMultiple RDS/Citrix servers haven't patched
I'm after some help please,All of our RDS and citrix servers failed to patch last night see screenshot below I've tried checking STDeploy.log but as you can see from the date modified below it hasn't...
View Article"Pre-deploy Snapshot Failed" with ESXi License/Version Error
Symptoms When your deployment options are set to take a pre-deploy snapshot of a hosted VM, the deployment fails with error "Pre-deploy snapshot failed":Deployment logs show the following...
View Article*.MSU files cannot be downloaded from HTTP-configured distribution servers...
Symptoms Agents attempting to patch machines fail.The agents are unable to find and download the .MSU patch files from HTTP-configured distribution servers.On the UI of the target machine in the Patch...
View Article7-Zip Install Doesn't Remove Registry Keys for Previous Versions
Symptoms When installing the latest version of 7-Zip, vulnerability scans still report that older versions are installed and vulnerable. Cause The 7-Zip installer does not actively remove registry keys...
View Articlehow to manually update the patch content
I noticed that the automated patch content update mechanism is no longer functioning on our Ivanti PFW server for more then a month.or so.I tried to find the option to manually run an update of the...
View ArticleAdding ESXI Host - The Host Could Not Be found
Hi All wondering if anyone has came across this issue, (Support case raised) Ivanti Product Fully Licensed:Licensed Capabilities--------------------Maintenance and Data Subscription expires:...
View Articlehow to add offline Agent to a Machine Group
Hello,we organized our Workstations based ob departments from our company. So we basicly created multiple machine groups wich are linked with OUs from our domain.Now we are facing the followin issure:...
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