Patch Management Solution

We recently upgraded to SMP 7.5 SP1 HF3 and are no longer able to do bulk moves of software policies. This is particularly important for patch policies. If I select a group of policies to move, it will only move 1 policy and leave the others in place. With the plethora of updates it is impossible to allocate time to do these one at a time. Bulk move of filters still works but not software policies. Has this been a problem for others and is there a solutoin?

We are experiencing this issue as well now, takes something that might of been 30 seconds to 30 minutes at least now. No solution that I've found so far but it would be nice if Symantec fixed it.

The Solution is to move the policies from the Actions menu.

Navigate from the Actions Menu to Software > Patch Remedation Center.

Go to the Folder with the Policies to be moved.

In the Left Pane select the root folder and let it populate the Right pane.

From the Right Pane select the Polices to be moved and then Right-Click move.

Not sure why the Actions menu option is different. I will assume there is a different workflow being called to perform the Bulk Move function.

Read: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-move-group-patches-folder

Hope this helps as a workaround.

Todd

Thinking about this some more. I wonder if it has to do with the changes made to the Enhanced Views in the "Activity Center". When you use the Manage menu and select Policies, you are going into a Silverlight Enhanced Activity Center menu area. The Right-Click menu on a group of policies is using the Silverlight menu.

From the Actions menu it functions and performs differently.

Just a thought.