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Santana_Villa | 26 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

Product or Solution release details includes the following:

  • Version
  • Release Type
  • Release Date
  • End of Life
  • End of Limited Support
  • Last date for patch releases
  • End of Support Life
  • Last date to contact support

To get that information follow the steps below:

  1. Go to Supported Products A-Z  page.
  2. Select the product from the list
  3. On the right side box named “Product Support” select “Release Details”
  4. The information for selected product will be loaded on the main page.
  5. Use the dropdown menu to select the correct version of the product you are looking for.
  6. Example: see direct link to...
Ludovic Ferre | 26 Mar 2013 | 2 comments

I have a customer that is following the compliance status of their computer for MS12-060 in details (as this vulnerability as a high priority in their environment) and yesterday they got back to find out that the compliance status had dropped by about 50% over the week-end.

Looking into the Applicable and Installed update tables they could see that the KB2687441 was on both, so the update was installed and the computer compliant, so why would it show up as not compliant on their report?

We had a remote session this morning and found out the following element:

  • MS12-060 updates were effectively compliant
  • comctl.ocx update applicable were now from:
    • KB2687441 (MS12-060)
    • KB2598041 (MS12-027, superseded by MS12-060)
    • KB2687493 (not associated with any bulletin from the Microsoft site)
  • KB2687493 was not on the installed table
  • KB2687493 was not in the MS12-060 bulletin from Microsoft
  • ...
dcudney | 22 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

I was wanting to save the results of a filter to an Excel file today, and I found that the filter did not have a "Save As" button. I found an article here that explained it, but I modified the report slightly to fit my needs. I was looking for way to get the list of computers in my Patch Test Group Filter. I used this SQL query to create a report to then save as a .csv:

 

SELECT Distinct 

r.Guid AS '_ItemGuid', 

r.Name AS 'Resource', 

r.[User], 

r.[System Type], 

r.[OS Name], 

vItem.Name AS FilterName

FROM 

vItem INNER JOIN

CollectionMembership INNER JOIN

vComputerEx AS r ON CollectionMembership.ResourceGuid = r.Guid ON 

vItem.Guid = CollectionMembership.CollectionGuid LEFT OUTER JOIN

Inv_AeX_AC_Identification ON r.Guid = Inv_AeX_AC_Identification._ResourceGuid

WHERE

CollectionMembership.CollectionGuid = 'd0fae853-3129-490f-86fd-e8a8bc0162f2'

ORDER BY r.Name ASC

All you need to change on this report os...

ianatkin | 21 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

Good news from Symantec CEO Steve Bennett has arrived in the form of a Customer and Partner letter.

The important bit for us is that Endpoint Management is explictly listed as being a critical part of the Symantec portolio moving forward. This is something which was not clear in the previous company strategy annoucement.

He closes by saying,

"Despite any rumors to the contrary, all of these technologies remain a critical part of our product development and overall portfolio. We believe that through greater alignment of these technologies, Symantec will improve our product integration to help you improve and simplify your end users’ IT experiences"

I'm blogging this out as I know there are many Altiris Administrators out there who will let out a huge sigh of relief on this one.

Kind Regards,
Ian./...

Joseph_Carson | 15 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

Hello Everyone,

I thought i would share this with you all, it is a webcast on Symantec best practice approach to effective patch management for clients and servers.

Effective Patch Management for Clients and Servers

An effective and comprehensive patch management strategy is an essential part of a solid security defense. The vast majority of vulnerabilities exploited by malicious code are ones for which a fix is available from the software vendor. A recent Gartner report stated that “90% of successful attacks occurred against previously known vulnerabilities where a patch or secure configuration standard was already available.”1 (‘Managing the Next Generation of Client Computing,’ Terrance Cosgrove, Gartner, February 8, 2011)

Attend our webcast to learn how to build and roll-out a complete patch management strategy to:

•Ensure that Windows, Mac, Red Hat®...

stebro | 06 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

In previous articles, we discussed why users want administrator rights and why they need them. Now let’s explore why they shouldn’t have them. In today’s increasingly dangerous threat landscape, every organization’s security strategy should include the goal to remove administrator rights. Here are the reasons.

  1. Zero-Day Threat Protection: Arellia research has proven that running with reduced privileges can mitigate a majority of software vulnerabilities in Microsoft, Adobe, and Mozilla products. Any vulnerability has the potential to be a zero-day: meaning it is exploited before the vendor or security vendors know about it and have a chance to stop exploits with patches or antivirus \ intrusion prevention signatures. Running software with reduced privileges protects commonly software when exploited by vulnerabilities that take advantage of...
ohzone | 01 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of North England’s busiest and largest hospitals. With the influx of mobile devices impacting healthcare, the Trust embarked on a mobile data management strategy, based on Symantec Mobile Management, to enable secure mobile working. As a result, it found clinical outcomes improved through real-time access to healthcare history, medical images, medical notes, and more. All of this comes on top of a highly successful Symantec data loss prevention (DLP) and endpoint security implementation that lowers the cost of managing security by 25 percent. To learn more about these highly successful mobile management and security strategies, follow this link: http://bit.ly/VqUeD2     

varaprasad_ravuri | 01 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

 

REM Partition Format Local Disk
 
REM Create diskpart script file
echo select disk 0 > %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\temp\diskpart%ID%.txt
echo clean >> %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\temp\diskpart%ID%.txt
echo create partition primary align=64 >> %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\temp\diskpart%ID%.txt
echo select partition 1 >> %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\temp\diskpart%ID%.txt
echo active >> %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\temp\diskpart%ID%.txt
echo assign letter=C >> %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\temp\diskpart%ID%.txt
echo format fs=ntfs quick override >> %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\temp\diskpart%ID%.txt 
 
REM Execute diskpart command 
diskpart /s  %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\temp\diskpart%ID%.txt
 
REM Delete diskpart script file 
del %ALTIRIS_SHARE%\temp\diskpart%ID%.txt
ShaneB | 26 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

https://www.publicsector.shidirect.com/Webinars/SeminarRegister.aspx?SeminarSeriesId=813

 

I just wanted to post this event on the connect page and see if anyone else from the user group planned on attending?  WKU will have a few folks there.

mmurphy7 | 22 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

In the last blog article we discussed the top 5 reasons why users want administrator privileges. In this article we will discuss the top 5 reasons why a user actually NEEDS administrator rights. Here are the top 5 reasons:

  1. System Utilities: many of the control panel applications require administrator rights including driver installation, disk defragmenter, and backing up the.
  2. System Settings: changing system settings such as the date\time or network configuration settings require administrator privileges.
  3. Software Installation: software that tries to install into the Program Files or Windows directory needs administrator rights to do so.
  4. Software Updates: application updaters require administrator rights in order to make changes to the applications in the Program Files directory. This includes updaters for Adobe, Java, and iTunes.
  5. ...