Differences between "Show currently required patches only" and "Show all...
Good morning, I am on LANDesk Management Console 9.50 and I am trying to understand what is the best way to download the patches I need to deploy on all my clients. Basically, if I look under "Patch...
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Best Way for replacing WSUS with LanDesk Patch Manager
Hello there, up so far we were using WSUS for patching our machines. As I liked the way it works I am trying to mimic WSUS logic inside LanDesk. As I'm not a LanDesk expert I hope some of you have some...
View ArticlePatching with Deep Freeze PCs
Using LANDesk 9 SP3. I am running into an issue with systems that use Deep Freeze so I am trying to figuire out the best way of doing it whereas I just exclude all the PCs for now that have the...
View ArticleDefinition Types: Where did they go?
Hi, Newbie here. Just went to look into using Patch Manager to get MSFT patches on our servers up to date. I noticed new patches definitions aren't there.I noticed there are only a few definition...
View ArticleJava 7 Update 11
Support is aware of the Java 7 Update 11 emergency update provided by Java. Our team is currently developing a patch manger definition for Java 7 Update 11 and we will have this released as soon as...
View ArticleVulscan failing to run (User does not have admin rights)
Hello, In our organization we have custom shortcuts that run a vulscan against a patch group and repairs any patches found in that group. The command is below:...
View Articlej2sdk-1_4_2_17-windows-i586-p.exe
Anyone have a direct link to this patch? I found all the others but this one is MIA.... Thanks!
View Articlepolicy-based repairs
After reviewing the documentation, talking to my consultants and looking over the community site, I found I was still unclear about what I thought were some pretty basic questions about patch policies...
View ArticlePatch repair task log name & location (v9)?
Received error 412 and would like to troubleshoot. Thanks.
View ArticleSDMcache Cleanup ...
Hello, I am pretty new with LANDesk, and I was wondering how and why the SDMcache folder (C:\Program Files\LANDesk\LDClient\sdmcache\) is not cleaned after the security and patch management. I've now...
View Article10 process Vulscan.exe on my client
Hello, I have a problem on my client LanDeskLanDesk is setup as a client on my server (Windows 2003 R2) and in the windows "Task Manager" there are 10 processes "vulscan.exe" that take almost 100% of...
View ArticleClean up patch folder
Hi!I'd really like to clean up our patch folder. We're now having 1735 patch in there and I really don't think that we need them all.Is there any recommended way or can I simply delete all the patches...
View ArticleBasic question - how to start with unmanaged assets?
I'm sure this is quite basic, but i cannot figure out how to anything to bring my undiscovered assets into my patch process. I have run the network discovery and read documenation about creating scan...
View ArticleJava (JRE/JDK) 6 "upgrade" to 7
Does LANDesk have any plans to release the auto-upgrade patch & definition from v6 to v7 of Java? It would be nice to get that to run natively in LANDesk Patch Manager. Right now, we are prepping a...
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Java 7 update 11 - patching problems
Hi all I have been patching the critical update for Java 7u11 on LanDesk version 9.0.3.1 and have hit a few confusing problems. The patch has worked on several machines - removing the idea that the...
View ArticleDisabling a patch for a single computer
I have a computer that security required me to remove a hotfix on. Everyting I patch the server, it wants to re-add the hotfix because it no longer exists. All other computers need the hotfix, but I...
View ArticleNew, the ability to disable "Auto Updates" in some patches
Just wanted to share with you all the fact that LANDesk has added the ability to disable the Auto Update features in a couple of patches. I have been working with them on this and had also submitted...
View ArticleJRE-6u23-windows-i586.exe?
I just added this to my scan folder, and I was trying to test it against 7 computer. It failed on every single one of them, with no indication of why. I can't even figure out which log file to look in;...
View ArticleCustom Definitions - Poof!
I've recently been made aware that the custom definitions I have set up before have mysteriously VANISHED over a period of about 3 months. This was noticed and brought to my attention. I'm now tasked...
View ArticleVulScan Using Excessive Memory?
Hello, We seem to have a common issues with several users in our organization. VulScan will kick off periodically throughout the day and use about 380K of the available memory which is leading to an...
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