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Windows Update Service Is Required to Install Patches on Windows Vista and...
Description Microsoft patches fail to deploy on the following operating systems: Windows VistaWindows Server 2008Windows 7Windows Server 2008 R2Windows 8Windows Server 2012Windows 8.1Windows Server...
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Why is vmtools update from shavlik also installing C++ redistributable?
Shavlik for windows patching v9.2. one of sys admin pushed some MS patching to VM (6.5) windows servers (2012R2 & 2016) that included vm tools updates. when the sys admin started pushing just...
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Troubleshooting Slow Patch Scans In Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers
Purpose This document provides information to troubleshoot slow patch scans when using Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers (PWS). Symptoms Patch scans in Patch for Windows typically do not take a lot of...
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Custom patch reports - combining different report
Hi All, We are using Shavlik Protect:Ivanti Patch for Windows® Servers Standard (ST.Protect.exe): 9.3.4510.0 I need a detailed summary report for audit purposes and I have found a couple of reports...
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Patch For Windows
Hello, I come from an SCCM background and like the fact that the SCCM agent uses BITS (Background Intelligent File Transfer) to download content from SCM infrastructure. This is very useful when...
View ArticleAvailable Reports
Available Reports The following reports are available in Shavlik Protect. The reports you have access to is dependent upon your current license level. To choose a report, select Tools > Create...
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How To Use Advanced Reporting / Reports Advanced Filtering
Purpose Administrators may find that the default reports may provide information that is less important to their patch process. There may be a need for information only regarding specific machines,...
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Multiple 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 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 ArticleHow do you handle name changes?
With the now never-ending required OS changes from Microsoft and the constant re imaging and renaming machines, I am wondering if anyone has developed a workable solution to the 45 day expiration...
View ArticleWhich 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 ArticleNeed to know "patch compliance" - Shavlik doesn't seem to have good way to do so
As a Manager, I want to know when all of my workstations are in compliance with a specific level of patching. Ivanti said the only way to know that is if the server can scan the endpoint. That doesn't...
View ArticleAgent Scan vs Agentless Scan (which takes more resources)?
We currently are using agents on our desktops and manage all our servers as "agentless". A question that came up recently to a very time sensitive high availability set of servers, is how resource...
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July Exchange patching havoc
Guys, Is it only me not seeing all fixes regarding Exchange patching mess up mentioned here: Issue with July Updates for Windows on an Exchange Server – You Had Me At EHLO… For example I am missing KB...
View ArticleKeeping track of EOL software
Hello, Does Ivanti or anyone have any recommendations on keeping track of software that is no longer supported? Up until recently we were deploying Adobe Reader XI and only just found out that support...
View ArticleNew version/build of Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers
Last build 9.3.4510 (9.3 Update 1) was released 10/02/2017. When is anew build or version coming out? Whats new features or fixed bugs will be included?
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Unable to scan error 201 Network connection error
Hello I am unable to scan 2 servers , i always get error 201. I tried troubleshoot with all i got on the web without succes.The ports are open, test existence/credential are ok, the firewall is ok,...
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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Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers API integration with the Qualys...
Purpose The following is a sample integration script for the Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers API integration with the Qualys vulnerability scanner. If you use a vulnerability scanner to identify...
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Scheduled 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...
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