exit codes on custom scripts
Hi, I found this link (http://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/returning-error-code-on-scripts-how-to.html) while doing research on custom scritps. How does the exit codes help? Does Desktop Central tell me if there is an error while running the custom script? How will it let me know, i.e. will it send an email? Let me know if you need more details. Thanks.
iOS 8
I'm having an issue with the iOS 8... devices. When I try to install the ME MDM app i get the following error "error installing me mdm app" Any suggestions?
Trying to delete an obsolete shortcut from the desktop of all user profiles.
Trying to delete an obsolete internet shortcut from the desktop of all user profiles. Our workstations are standardized on Windows 7 pro, 32 and 64 bit versions. In the shortcut name field I put: C:\Users\Public\Desktop\Treev I get an error stating the Filename, Directory Name, or Volume label syntax is not correct.
Auto approve patches from a publisher?
Hello -- Is it possible to automatically approve patches for a particular publisher or software title? For example, I would like my clients to be as up to date as possible on Flash player. I don't want to have to go in to DC every month and approve the latest patches for Flash player.
SNMP Trap for Desktop Central
Hi there, We have been noticing some performance issues with DesktopCentral recently. My personal theory is because we are using an instance of MSSQL 2008 on a seperate server, and the amount of data being fed through to the database may be large due to it scanning 700+ systems and that someone on my team may be trying to also generate the reports at the same time that this is occuring. Is there any way I can set an SNMP trap on the Desktop Central server that will report back statical information
Admin account not gone.
I recently deleted the "admin" account from the user admin section. Any it shows that it is gone. (see attached) but I can still login to the site with the admin account as a local user?? Is there any way of getting this t account to go away?
API Testing
Define a Policy to replicate data on to the Distribution Server to control the Bandwidth
Desktop central - alert for hardware change
Hi, I m testing Desktop central and found something that is a problem for me, Problem with this alarm is that when somebody for example turn off/on monitor with usb/card hub inside monitor I got 5-6 mails of alert that new hardware is found. I like this alert and I would like to use it for memory/HD/graph. cards change (big changes) but like this I cant enable it because its spam my mailbox. do you have plans for fixing ? thnx, P.S. I couldnt find forum about desktop central to post my question there?
Prohibited Software List
I want to remove a piece of software that was added to the prohibited software list. When I look at the list I am not able to see that software name in the list any where. Where would it have gone and how do I see it again? Any help would be appreciated?
IOS Activation Lock
Is there a way to override the Activation Lock on IOS devices? I have run into company devices that have this set, and this makes re-purposing them for other users a pain. I do not see that as an option in the IOS profile setup...
Remote Control not working with IE 11 (Works fine with Chrome)
Hi I am testing with the Remote Control tool in Desktop Central. When testing with IE11 I can find a PC and shutdown or start it up ok but when I try and remote control to it a message appears on the client PC asking if Administrator can control. I click allow and then nothing happens on the administration PC. If I try again I get a message saying that it Remote is waiting to establish a connection. For info the remote control works fine when using Chrome. Could this be related to Active X settings
Automatic Path Deployment
Hi, I was trying to configure automatic path schedule for updating group of servers. Is it possible to scan and download all missing patches in separate job and then have another job that installs these patches? Scanning and downloading takes time and I have pretty small time window for patching & rebooting these servers. It would help if I can just deploy patches inside the time window. Here are the options I have when configuring automatic path job: If I choose "Scan systems, download missing patches
log on server after reboot
i have a couple fo windows servers that i want to reboot using desktop central. Can someone explain how i can setup Desktop central to get the server to log on as a user and startup up a couple fo programs? tahnsk
How to generate patch report
How to generate patch report, as not getting computer wise report with patch status for example; Windows WSUS report
Update ppm installs, then uninstalls.
I have recently tried to update from version 90039 to version 90067 as I noticed during the logon process that an update was available. However, after downloading the ppm and following the update process I cannot get the update to install. No errors show and all the services start back up without any indication of what the problem is.
.PFX cert import into Desktop Central will not accept password
I have a 3rd party .pfx cert with known good password, as I've imported it several times elsewhere, including the opmanager product. Desktop Central is saying "invalid password" (private key backup password). So thinking my original password might be too complex, or too many characters, I re-exported the cert including private key and provided a simple 9 character password. Even the short no special character password is being rejected by Desktop Central on this .pfx cert backup. I'm very good
New false positive for patch 100672 (MSWU-1150) on Win 7 SP1 and MS Office 2010
It looks like patch 100672 (MSWU-1150) was released on December 8th. All of our Win 7 SP-1 / Office 2010 workstations had been showing that it was installed or not needed. Suddenly this morning we have 68 machines (out of a total 180+) that are showing that they require the patch. On one of the affected machines, I tried manually installing the patch and was told it didn't apply to the system in question. Anyone else notice this behavior today? Thanks.
Foxit reader after update asks for administrator account
Hello! after last update of Foxit reader it asks our users to log in as administrator when opening PDF documents. Foxit is updated, everything is installed, restarted, but still asks for administrator password for the first time when starting foxit or opening PDF document. Details about patch: 301826 TU-023 Update For Foxit Reader (7.0.6.1126) Can you check why is that happening and how we can sort it out? Thanks, Tomislav
Error when submitting Help Desk request from client
When our users try to submit requests from the DC agent to our ServiceDesk software, they receive a "your request could not be sent" message. In the TO: address field it says Help Desk, but I never could find the way to specify the ServiceDesk email account. Is there a place that all of this gets set? I know that mail works on DC, because I get reports from it every day. Thanks, Dave
Cannot continue patching
I am using manual patching by selecting single or multiple computers and trying to patch, previously when I have the "draft download failed", I click on it and remove the failed patches and continue deployment and it successfully continues patching with the already downloaded patches, now its not doing that, it always displays draft download failed even I removed the failed patches. What is this problem. I am on the latest service pack and this problem appears on the newer version. Regards
Surface pro 3 firmware
Is there a way to deploy surface pro 2 and 3 firmware with desktop central? Since it comes from windows updates, we were hoping we could force this particular one, or prevent it.
Problem of Deploy software through HTTP path
Hello, I have try using the Desktop Central deploy some software like Acrobat Pro, MS Office(no test yet) allway not success. For the target system is locate in a remote office and manage by the distribution server. I'm choose the HTTP path to do the deployment. I have create a ".zip" package after refer Office Package and HTTP Way and upload to DC server. The package setting please check follows pictures it is refer by this topic . The question are at follow. Please give me some advice. Thanks.
Service Desk Plus to Desktop Central Prompt
Hello, we have Service Desk Plus and Desktop Central setup on the same server and both are using https: for their URL's. Every time we go from SDP to DC it does not automatically bring up the window for DC. We get prompted in IE11 that only secure content is displayed and we have to hit the show all content button. Once we do this the DC page comes up but just trying to see how to get around this. We have also added the https: url into trusted sites in IE but are still having the same behavior.
Auto Patches Initiating Deployments Outside of Window
I have Automated Patches setup. It says Next Run Time : Today at 8:00pm and Current Status : Suspended. I went into the Policy and added an exception PC which needed to be skipped tonight. After saving it immediately started pushing patches at 10:00am. Why did it start pushing patches? The next run time was not until 8:00pm. Thank you, Cassie L Levett
Server patching with desktop central
Hello, We are trying to move our server patching from wsus to desktop central. However, we like that fact that we could start the update process directly from the servers manually. How can I get a similar behaviour with Desktop Central ? In other terms, I want to log on a server, execute something that will start the update process. Thank you for your help
View patch jobs or configurations from other technicians
We have a technician that has configured and running a patch job. Other technicians who are logged in are not able to view the patch job(s) or view the status of running patch jobs. We are looking under the 'Configurations' tab and then selecting 'Created by All'. Also on the 'Home' tab there is a 'Configuration Summary Report'. Can that also be made to reflect all Configurations instead of just the logged in technician?
Declined Patches still showing up
Since version 9 has come out, all the applications that i have set up to decline patches have started to show up as needed patches for the clients. Is there some feature or option im missing to stop these patches? Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks in advance.
Dynamic groups being used for scheduled restarts
I am trying to create dynamic groups that holds all of our user and use that group to to run scheduled restarts. When I go to add this dynamic group to scheduled restarts it does not show up. Wondering if this just is not possible or if I am going about it in the wrong way. Please advise.
Patch Tuesday Heads up for December 2014
Hi Folks, This is a summary of the new and changed content to be released on Tuesday, December 09, 2014. Security Updates : Microsoft Security Bulletins for December 2014, https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms14-dec . Bulletin Summary: Microsoft Security Bulletins: 3 bulletins are rated as Critical. 4 bulletins are rated as Important Vulnerability Impact: 5 bulletins address vulnerabilities which could allow Remote Code Execution. 1 bulletins address vulnerabilities which could allow
Ability to handle Lenovo software updates
Hello Will Desktop Central ever have the ability to centrally deploy updates to systems running Lenovo software? Anthony
Unknown eror code 40008 during Internet Explorer 11 installation
Hi, Any body faced this error Unknown eror code 40008 during Internet Explorer 11 installation? Please let me know the fix. Thanks, Mohamed Saleem
What am I not getting? Patch jobs very unstable
I have hundreds of machines to patch. If I create a job to install all the patches, and a single patch fails to download, the entire job fails and I am still stuck with hundreds of unpatched machines. I cannot take the time to go through and create individual jobs for each patch, or for each system. Creating a blanket job to patch all the systems is the easiest way. Except, it seems to be very unstable and the configuration job for the patch just QUITS if anything goes wrong. Is there not a
Adobe Reader XI Upgrade
Ladies and Gentlemen, I was trying to upgrade the computers to Adobe Reader XI, but only on the computers that currently have a version of Adobe Reader. I tried adding a pre-deployment activity, in which the configuration would check the computer for a version of Adobe Reader lower than 11, but it just happens that Adobe Reader is not just known by that name. It has so many other names, versions and even Manufacturer's name in the Software Inventory that it doesn't seem to recognize what I am asking
Non-stop messages when install/ uninstall of commercial software
Hello, We configured Desktop Central (Components Versions [Build No: 90046]) to send out notifications when Commercial software applications are installed or uninstalled from computers. The situation is when a managed computer installed an update (let say MS office 2013* update from 15.0.4659.1001 to 15.0.4659.1002), the alert messages (about 5 for install and uninstall each) send out which is OK.Understood that MS Office might include different components which might trigger multiple messages when
How to check if a specific file exist and which exit code to use ?
Hi, First I'm not a scripting guy and I know almost nothing about VB scripting. I have a deployment of 6 tasks and I want to make sure that step # 2 will not be process if it failed in step #1, and so on for the 6 task. To do this, i have to run a vbs script before installation or uninstalltion on each steps I'm trying to use the script form ME support page that i have modified for pre-uninstallation of software and also post-installation of the software. Pre-uninstallation: The script will look
Patch Management information is not the same as in Configurations
Good Morning We have a customer which has a lot of issues on his Desktop Central, On of these issue he is having is regarding Patch Management, The Missing Patches section always is showing that the computers are missing about 1052 but this number never changes. At the same time on the configurations the number shows that about 80 to 90% of the patches were applied successfully. Client has the latest build with is 90087 and everytime we upgrade his issues on the application do not get fixed.
PostgreSQL to MS SQL Migration
Hi I've started a migration of our Desktop Central database from the supplied PostgreSQL database to MS SQL server. The process seems to have got stuck - it's been running now for about 4 hours, with no indication of it completing (it's a small installation - only managing around 140 desktop machines) Can you give an indication of how long this process should take, and what I can do if it's stuck? Thanks, David
Deploy Immediately FIX
There is as far as i can see an issue with the option Deploy Immediately. If you have all the patches downloaded and ready - e.g. like a software deployment, then option to deploy immediately to a number of boxes works fine. But if there are patches to download - and the job has to wait until the Download In progress has finished, then the patches job is not started straight away, the boxes have to wait until a) MANUAL service restart b) MANUAL cfgupdate run c) up to 90 minutes for refresh. This
Segregate servers for patching
Hello, I have a question regarding Manage Engine's Patch management abilities. We have a group of 20 servers that would require us to approve any and all patches that are deployed to it. Can Manage Engine segregate those servers from the workstations that can all be automatically approved. I know that WSUS is capable of this, but it would be best to keep a consistent patch management system. Thank you.
How to remove empty workgroups from Branch Office list
We are standardizing on workgroup names and will eventually have only one workgroup per DC branch office. I have noted that the remote office/workgroups combinations remain even after all PCs have been removed from the remote office/workgroup. Is there a process to run on the server that deletes these unnecessary combinations? See the attached file for an example of one branch office (Parmer) that has PCs with 3 different workgroups (see Capture.jpg - one workgroup shown in Capture2.JPG does not
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