Detect pending reboot on Windows servers
Hello. I'm currently writing a batch script to handle patching of Windows servers. I'm using a batch script to run vulscan because I want to leave some evidence / logging on the local server to show...
View ArticleLDMS 9.5 "Gather Historical Information" crashing everytime
As the title states "Gather Historical Information" is crashing during the task towards the end at "Removing historical information more than 30 days old ...". The console crashes every time at this...
View ArticleDownloading Java SE 6 Update 51
Has anyone figured out how to actually download the latest v.6 Java update? They only list the v.7 stuff now on their standard download page. I found a page where you can download old versions, but it...
View ArticleMS14-021 installed?
Hi guys,Im looking to run a query to show me how many clients are currently patched with MS14-021, but i cant seem to set up a query that will correctly do this, Anyone got any suggestions on this?
View ArticleNode's reported device ID is not in the database
Hi All, Getting a bit of an issue thuis morning when deploying a patch. I get the result "Node's reported device ID is not in the database" after the patch fails. Is anyone able to offer assistance...
View ArticleError "Cannot Find Agent "
We are getting the error "Cannot Find Agent" when we tried to deploy patches on to several clients remotely. Close to 500 clients had resluted in the same error. The status is showing OFF to all the...
View ArticleCustom Variable for JRE patch?
Has anyone modified LANDesk's JRE patch with Custom Variable to install using Java Security Level = Medium? I wrote a custom defintion to deploy "deployment.config" and "deployment.properties" files to...
View ArticlePrinter drivers showing up in PendingFileRenameOperations causing LANDesk...
Hello all, I have been updating printer drivers on our print servers and I have been noticing lately that many of our end user clients are recieving reboot prompts as LANDesk sees the...
View ArticleSocket Errors and other weirdness...
LANdesk 8.7 SP3 - cleints xp sp2. Everything has been running fine with patch, but recently I started to get a lot of the following errors during normal scans and when I do repairs: Seeing this a lot...
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LANDesk Definition Servers - are they down?
Have Microsoft's Out-of-Band patch releases brought LANDesk's servers down?Does anyone else get this right now? "You have not specified a valid site from which to download updates. Please verify your...
View ArticlePrinter Issues after Security and Patch Updates
Has anyone out there seen any issues with printers after doing Security and Patch updates via LANDESK? We've been seeing a fair amount of issues where printers have to be reinstalled after the LANDESK...
View ArticleW3WP process for LDAppVulnerability consuming high CPU
(LANDesk 8.8) I started noticing slowness when running a Security Scan from a client machine, and also slowness in our 32-bit Consoles. When I launch a Security Scan It just sits for 30-60 seconds at...
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 ArticlePatching Vista and Windows 2008 Server
Hello all I am running a full Windows XP / 2003 environment of about 1700 nodes and our patch management is done via LANDesk only so we have a domain-wide GPOin Active Directory that disables anything...
View ArticleHow to apply the patch as a policy
I have lots of devices on the internet. I wanted to install patches like Adobe, Adobe reader, flash, Java, itunes. When i tried to create a policy task to push those updates to the remote machines it...
View ArticleJava 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 ArticleFailed installs for Windows6.1-KB2835361-x64.msu - "Not applicable to your...
In testing, I have several computers here that are failing on patch Windows6.1-KB2835361-x64.msu. This is indeed a Win7 X64 SP1 computer. Installs works on most computer - just failing on a few... See...
View ArticleCustom Query to see the last successful patch installation date (clean/repair)?
Hello all, Trying to create a custom query to see the last successful patch installation date. What I mean by this is if you go to a machine and go to "Security and Patch Information" then go to...
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Need to disable Windows 7 Restart or Postpone message
We want to use LANDesk for all of our patching needs. However, when we push a patch out to a Windows 7 machine that requires a reboot, the-end user always gets the Windows Action Center message pop up...
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Using Custom Def's to Look for Files of Specific Version
I need to search our environment for netapi32.dll file and in particular, any systems that do not have at least version 5.1.2600.5694. I've created a custom def that does a scan looking for the...
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