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A suggestion to clarify message in REMARKS filed under configuration.. I'll like to know which deployment cause this configuration to pause instead waiting or looking into multiple deployment policy to spot conflict.. Since DC know already that something
Dell Bios Switches Prompt for Bios password or silent switches passthrough
Desktopcentral allows you patch bios's for dell machines, however, if your machine is setup with a Admin/Setup Password that locks down bios settings the computer will not update because it wants a the correct bios password. Currently, you would have
Reboot before patch deployment
Some patches and updates install more reliably and with less issues (like Java JRE) if they are deployed at system start-up. Does anyone how how we can easily reboot computers prior to a patch deployment? The key word is easily since the only way I've found that this can be done is by first creating a list of all computers that need a Java patch/update, adding those to the Reboot list in Tools, scheduling a reboot, and having the patch deployment for Java set to "During start-up". That's a lot
Provide the ability to remove superseded patches from DC and the database
When a patch is superseded, it grays out and you cannot do anything with it. Even if one machine states it needs it, it remains on the missing patches list. We need to the ability to remove these patches from all instances of desktop central since they cannot be pushed. Without this ability, reporting numbers are off and extra work needs to be done to accurately reflect proper patching reports. Even if they're not physically removed from the server, we need a way to hide/remove them from all page
patch approve to test
It's possible have a new approve status for the patch? I would like to have a level "approve to test systems group" The patch in this status in approve only for a group of systems definited in the admin control pannel. Thanks
Endpoint Central Support for Windows Store App Patching and .APPXBUNDLE Deployment
As applications from the Microsoft Store become increasingly critical for business operations and security, it is essential to ensure they are regularly updated to address potential vulnerabilities and compliance requirements. This is particularly pertinent
Add build numbers to patch description for Windows 10 cumulative updates
Hi, As far as I can tell, every Windows 10 cumulative update raises the OS build number, e.g. KB4499177 [1] will take the OS to build 14393.2999 (with the .2999 being the build number updated by the patch). As the release of a cumulative update invalidates all the previous cumulative updates, I would find it extremely useful if the patch description for the updates contained the build number (.2999) - so that I could tell at a glance if the patch being listed was a genuine update, or an erroneous
I wish the System Health Policy included time settings
I wish the 'System Health Policy' included time settings. If we have a phased in test patch deployment, where we deploy to group1 - week 1, group2 - week 2, group 3 - week 3, group 4 - week 4 our Health Policy should match. In essence don't consider
Surface firmware updates
I just wanted to put in a formal request for support of updating Surface Pro 1, 2, 3, and 4 firmware through the Desktop Central patch module. We have many many Surface devices and we have no way to upgrade the firmware on them. This is causing support issues since these updates are so critical. Do you have an update on when this feature will be added? Please contact me if I can be a beta-tester for it. Thank you.
Option to auto-close apps that require update AND/OR notify users to save work then quit apps that require updates
I think this shouldn't be too hard to do. Better than seeing "Patch update delayed since application is used by another process" errors https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/patch-update-delayed-since-application-is-used-by-another-process.html?dci&did=45-1224-2016-05-11-20-21-27-2695 it should be alot like the "Notification Message before Reboot*" but instead "Notification Message before closing vulnerable applications* This would apply for apps such as office 365. which require
HP BIOS Updates
It would be good if HP BIOS updates could be pushed out, similar to how the DELL solution that is already implemented
Threats/Patches/Software/Cofigs Deployment "Save As" options
It is nice to have several "Save as" option when deploying something. However, many times we have various issues when deploying to a large number of PC's. I.E. x are in Retry, x are in Yet to deploy, x are in Failed and so on. Could there be an additional
Product Suggestion for Updates self service portal
Hello! I would like to give some feedback on the new Self Service portal for self managed updates: 1. It would be nice if there was a way to default the self service portal to the updates tab instead of the Apps tab. 2. Like other patch management configurations,
Pre- and Post-Job Scripts for "Automate Patch Deployment"
We use Desktop Central to automatically patch one of our systems, which has been working great for the past year or so. However I now want to automatically patch some servers, which require services to be shutdown before and started again after the installation (after reboot). My suggestion is to add the capability to run pre- and post-job scripts for Patch Deployment, similar to what can be done for SW packages.
Reboot Policy / Functionality
Hello, I would like to see a feature added that would allow us to configure a reboot policy under the following conditions: If the machine hasn't been rebooted since X amount of time has elapsed, then force a reboot during the next defined maintenance window. This functionality also requires the ability to define this maintenance window. and/or If the machine has been sitting in a 'waiting for reboot' state for X amount of time, then force a reboot during the next defined maintenance window.
1st aid solution for client Patch scan problem with driver is active in Patch Database Settings
Hello Today I noticed on two DC installations, that the clients could not successfully run a patch scan or could not deliver it to DC server. In DC, there was no error message that the patch scan has a problem. Only the last date showed me that there
Suggestion for Feature - Ability for Offline Patch Deployments with Notification and User options.
I'm proposing to have locally cached deployment option. We have users that take their laptops home every day and even for weekend. Having ability to cache patches for installation on their machine while they are not building and give them option to when to apply them. Here is a quick scenario how that would work. User is scheduled to get patches on Monday Morning between 12am a - 10am. They take laptop home on friday and don't come back into office until 9am which only leaves 1 hour of deployment
Pop-up notification to users to close apps preventing patch install
When a patch deployment returns the error "Patch update delayed since application is used by another process." a pop-up is shown to the user. Telling them which open applications need to be closed for updates to proceed. This would resemble the pop-up
VLC Media Player support in patch management
I would like VLC media player to be added to the list of applications supported by patch management in Desktop Central.
Extend function of Test and Approve
There is a 1-to-1 mapping between the Test and Approve item, and a custom group. Cannot select a dynamic group. Can I please have Ability to select a custom dynamic group for testing Ability to use the same group for several test policies. Eg test critical
Desktop Central Custom Group / Dynamic By IP range
Good Afternoon, I was wondering if it has been considered the creation of Custom Groups based on IP range. For example I very often setup a functino of groups as a /24. Or we assign resources doing function X to 4 diffrent Class 24s. I would think from a custom layout you would want to to have the option of 1.) CIDR 2.) Range 3.) List Most likely with a later or considered report function around the same catagory. Thanks!
Desktop Central - Better Patch Management Information / Flow
Some things that I believe would help improve the Patch Management flow in Desktop Central, currently it's a bit cumbersome and hard to track down what exactly is in which patching group / deployment policy. Separate Configuration Deployment Policies
Customize patch deployment/approval
Currently patches can be approved or rejected, but this applies to all machines in a domain. It would be useful to be able to deploy specific patches to specific machines or groups as well as exclude specific machines from specific patches. Right now, I have two machines that can't get a specific patch, so I have to exclude them from all automated patch management and patch them manually. Customization would also be useful so patches could be deployed to test machines or groups before they are deployed
Positioning client pop-up window
When patch deployment is initiated, there is a pop-up window displayed on client machine (in right bottom corner). Is there a way to change position of this window (e.g. to upper right corner)?
Vulnerability scan notification
We are running Desktop Central Build 80234. We have configured the Schedule Vulnerability Update to run every day at 0400 and to e-mail notification to my e-mail address. The e-mail notification works fine. What I would like is to configure the notification to also tell me which patch(s) have been added since the last scan. Currently all I get is the following: Task Name : UpdateDB Task Started at : Mon Apr 29 04:00:00 EDT 2013 Task Completed at : Mon Apr 29 04:00:01 EDT 2013 Next DB Update Time
Microsoft Office 2011
Now that Desktop Central supports patches on the Mac, does it support updates for Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac?
Scheduled Off the network updates
I think this has been discussed here before but if not I wanted to suggest it. So Desktop Central (henceforth referred to as DTC) has the ability to schedule updates. What I'd like to see is the following: During the week I schedule windows updates for all my machines to take place on the weekend/specific date/time. DTC prestages all the updates to the machine at some point before the weekend/specific date/time The local agent retains the knowledge of the date and time for the scheduled update. Regardless
Mac OS patch (601384) gets the machine rebooted without notification
The patch crawler team has found that upon patching Mac sierra machines, it is getting rebooted arbitrarily even when "No Reboot" deployment policy is selected. From analyze, the team has confirmed patch 601384 naturally invokes the reboot action without notifying the customer. It seems it is the behavior of this update upon reading various 3rd party forums. A message has been added in the product UI to convey the Mac Sierra reboot message so that customers can get benefited and plan their patching
Patch Scan Suggestion For Improvement
I noticed a problem with one of our servers today. The server has been failing patch scans for almost 2 months but it was hard to tell there was a problem though due to the way Desktop Central views are shown. As the last succesful scan of the server occured when the server was up to date with missing patches - the server appeared in the "Healthy Server" group and has remained there ever since despite missing weeks of updates. The problem is that the "All Managed Systems" view shows the "Last
Is it possible to allow users to have some control of patch/software deployment downloading?
We have multiple users who are requesting for a level of control for when they download patches/software. There are two main factors for this request: 1. Extremely low bandwidth situations - where people are using dial up, etc, the patch/software download saturates the connection 2. Metered data transfer - where we have to pay per MB of data used (in an airplane, for example) 3. Scheduled connections - some of our connections cost more to use during the day. Is there some way to
Set a duration for Automated Patch Deployment
I would like the ability to set an duration for the Automated Patch Deployment tasks. Many of our computers are laptops and customers will be gone off our network for 3 or 4 days before returning. I would like to be able to set a time limit on the length of time that a task waits to run. For example, allow the patches to retry for up to 24 hours after it begins in 1 hour increments. Currently when the people are coming back many days after a patch deployment they will get patches and reboot. If we
Create New Custom Group
Hi It would be nice to have a Dymanic Group based on reboot required, if you patch with out reboot, its possible to restart all thats need a restart at a given time by such a group, So i hope this will come in a later version. Regards
Desktop Central Linux Agent Available Patches
Hi, It would be great if in Desktop Central could show the available patches of a Linux Server as another tab when viewing the computers details. Such as what is returned SUSE when you run zypper lu Thanks Phil
Desired - Patch Approval Status "By Application"
Currently we have configured all updates as "approved", and only today I have added my first "declined" patches, for the Application "SharePoint". This seemed to be the only option available, whereas what I would like to do, is automatically approve all Microsoft application, "Except" SharePoint, leaving those as "manually approve" only. I don't want to have to manually approve every patch, for every application. Can you improve the approval status configuration, to allow users to choose the approval
Reboot Prompts
I would find it useful if I could have a prompt to users to reboot their PC when one is required to complete an install/patch. Ideally with a customizable message and the option to say how often it will remind them.
Can you add support for Webex
WebEx updates a huge pain! Any plans to support updating WebEx?
Right click open link
Hi, A small little thing. Could you please enable it so that right click open in new tab works on the patch view, like it does on the computer. left opens the page, but right open new tab just give an empty screen
Dynamic Custom group under All Systems View
In Patch Management and All Systems view, the filter does not show Dynamic Custom Groups. It does show static groups. I am looking to see what patches are missing only in my dynamic group of servers.
Deploying patches even if some are not downloaded
Can you add an option when deploying patches like the one in "Automate patch deployment" where even if some files are failed to download the configuration continues with available patches already downloaded . Since we have to manually remove "failed to download" updates in order for the configuration to deploy and we don't want to use "automate patch deployment" for some domains. Thanks
Feature request/enhancement WOL & Patching
Hi Support, I was wondering if it is possible to add the wake on lan option to the Automate Patch Deployment. If we have computers to be patched and a user has switched them off, it would be good to have the option of waking the computers up before Scan systems, download and deploy missing patches. Kind Regards, Billy Greig
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