Rename client computers
Is there any way/tool to rename pcs remotely from the Desktop Central?
Modify Admin account password
Not able to modify admin account password.
Automatic Patch Deployment Not Working
I am running Automated Patch Deployment, and it was running fine...however since I created a Support File to send to AdventNet this appears to have stopped working....not sure if one has to do with the other but it happened right about the same time. The Automated Patch Deployment shows that it was successful and it runs at the time I have set it to, however there is no longer any DEPLOY PATCHES configuration showing up. This has been like this for a week. Any ideas? Thx! Richard
Exception Report in Desktop Central
Is there any way to create an exception report on software not installed in Desktop Central? For instance, can I create a report that tells me all of the systems in Inventory that do NOT have WinZip installed?
Install UltraVNC and config file
Okay I have been able to deploy UltraVNC silently via DC, however the part missing is copying the ultravnc.ini and security file to the machine. I have tried setting up "file folder" operation to copy the files to the machine as the user logs in but keep getting access is denied which makes no sense. Works fine if the folder exists but when "create directory if doesn't exist" is checked is when I get access denied message. Any ideas.
Generating a report
Dears, I created a task to poll the defragmentation status of all servers. I have to go and click on every server at least twice (once for C drive and the other for D drive) in order to know the status of the drive, whether it needs defrag or not. Is there a way to display the results in a more friendly way like a report and charts. I hope that there is a way to save this generated report as a PDF report and the ability to be sent automatically be email. Thank you in advance.
Office 2007 install/upgrade/uninstall
I am working on ensuring compliance and need to know if anyone has recommendations on a way to use Desktop Central to uninstall 2007 professional and install 2007 standard, and upgrade from xp to standard or professional, depending on the system.
Copy files after Installation of Software
Anyone have any ideas on how to copy files like configuration settings after a software installation is done.
Generating a report
Dears, I created a task to poll the defragmentation status of all servers. I have to go and click on every server at least twice (once for C drive and the other for D drive) in order to know the status of the drive, whether it needs defrag or not. Is there a way to display the results in a more friendly way like a report and charts. I hope that there is a way to save this generated report as a PDF report and the ability to be sent automatically be email. Thank you in advance
Listing of ALL printers (networked, local, and shared)?
We need to get a count of all printers in our network...not just "networked" printers (hosted via a server), but also all local and/or shared printers. This information is available by walking through each and every PC one at a time and going into the hardware information, but with several hundred PCs, this is not workable. Is there a better way to collect this information? Is there a report that lists all printers, networked and local and shared? Thanks!
Agent Installation - One time or perpetual?
When adding computers in SOM and installing the agent immediately, there are some computers that will not have the agent installed because they are not currently connected to the network...specifically laptops. The question I have is does DC6 continually try to install the Agent to these computers, or is it a one time thing? Reason I ask is that we have probably 50-75 laptops that I want included in patch updates, software rollouts etc, but if I have to keep trying to hit them manually to install
MS Office 2007 deployment
Where do I find this guide?
MS SQL Migration
Hi, We have Desktop Central installed with MYSQL on a desktop computer and it is running quite slow. Can we install the software on a server that has MS SQL installed and migrate this to that server. Thanks. 8)
Agent Communication
Is their a way or report to run that would tell me the last time an agent communicated with the server? In the last 30 days I have had 5 computers stop taking updates. The only way I caught it was the configiration is stuck in a yet to be assigned state. I then have to manually search the logs on each machine, etc. -Joe
Desktop Central protects from Win32/Conficker worm
Hi All, Today is April 1st and there is a peril of Win32/Conficker worm. Win32/Conficker is a worm that infects other computers across a network by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows Server service (SVCHOST.EXE). If the vulnerability is successfully exploited, it could allow remote code execution when file sharing is enabled. Depending on the specific variant, it may also spread via removable drives and by exploiting weak passwords. It disables several important system services and security
DC Agent
I am running 60316 build but the agent is 6.3.14. I download a free copy of the DC software and the agent is 6.3.17 Which one should it be? How do we get the agents to update when we apply a service pack? -Joe
Internet Explorer 8
Sounds like IE8 is now available and being pushed via Automatic Updates in Windows, however have heard of several problems. We do not have any plans to immediately upgrade to IE 8 as we have several web applications that have not been tested with IE 8. Will DC6 be automatically including these in the updates, and if so will there be an option to EXCLUDE this update specifically? Thank you! Richard
Option to Warn Users Prior To Pushing Software/Patches
Suggestion to have an option to notify users that Patches or Software is being pushed to their computer. Users have noticed that their desktop flashes and their computers slow down during patching and call us wondering why. Would be nice to have a customizable message box that can show up prior to the software pushes just like the one that shows up when a reboot is required. Thx! Richard
Automatic Uninstall of Prohibited Software not working
I am testing out the new feature of being able to uninstall prohibited software, and it does not seem to be working. For example on a test machine I loaded Google Toolbar, which is set as prohibited. It's picked up in Inventory scans, but upon reboots and logon is never uninstalled? There are not many options to this so I don't think I'm missing anything. Anyone else run into this?
Windows Patch 90105
Keep getting a failed deployment whenever I try to do the following patch...ideas? PatchID : 90105 PatchName : WindowsXP-KB920342-x86-ENU.exe BulletinID : MSWU-072 MS KnowledgeBase : 920342 Severity : Unrated Reboot : NotRequired Download Status : Downloaded [ 949.30 KB] Location Path : WindowsXP-KB920342-x86-ENU.exe Superceding Bulletin ID : NA CVEID : NA BugTraq ID : NA Affected Products Affected Service Packs Windows XP Professional SP2
The description for Event ID ( 103 ) in Source
Hi, I am getting this error on a lot of the clients in the event log with id 103. I have uninstalled and installed the client twice and the same eroor allways gets logged. We are running the latest version as it was downloaded only a week ago for the web. Product Name: ManageEngine Desktop Central 6 Product Version: 6.0.0 Vendor: AdventNet Inc. Build Number: 60319 The description for Event ID ( 103 ) in Source ( DesktopCentral ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
Central Report
I have a simple Q. Can I use Desktop Central to generate the disks defragmentation status for all servers at once? Thnks,
Generating a report
I have one small question in the Desktop Central product. Can I generate a report contains the hard disks defragmentation status on all servers? I need the server to list all managed server and the status of each drive whether it requires defragmentation or not. Thanks,
Patches: .Net 3.5 and Root Certificates
Hello, I am pleased with DC's ability to download the required Windows (and even Office) patches, but I am doing a side by side comparison with Windows Update after having executed a patch install on a test machine. Will there be support for DC to go out and grab the entire Windows Update catalog? Specific items I saw missing: High Priority (WU) (dot)Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Optional, Software (WU) Root Certificate Update Windows Search 4.0 Though I rather not install Windows Search 4, it should be
Unable to Deploy XP SP3
I am unable to deploy XP SP3. I keep getting the error Unknown Error -1073741 502. How do I fix this? Thx!
Wake On LAN Options
1) Would love to see in TOOLS > Wake On LAN an option to deploy Immediately. There are times when we are troubleshooting a computer and would love to see the option to be able to deploy immediately. 2) Would really like to see in INVENTORY > Computer Details > add a Wake On LAN button to immediately send a Wake on LAN packet to that computer. Just some thoughts. Thanks! Richard
Desktop Central Agent PopUp Balloon Problem!
We love having the agent visible to our users, its great and helps a lot. The major problem (and one that would cause us to remove it) is that annoying Pop-Up that appears in the taskbar. In XP the users have to manually close the balloon, in Vista it does disappear, but either way it is VERY annoying and is causing us problems. Can we retain the agent and kill the pop-ups? Thanks MATT
Execution Status Window
When viewing the Execution Status of Deployed Configurations, if you have multiple computers selected, the window does not wrap the Target Definitions line, making all of the colums in the bottom of the window to stretch to an enourmous length. This makes it difficult because you have to scroll left and right to compare the line of the status of deployment with the machine name at the begining. I have attached a screen shot in PDF for reference. Thank you!
Mapped Drive Configurations
I have configurations for drive mappings based on group membership. I will find that if I new users I have to re-deploy the configuration in order for the server to recognize that the new user should have the particular drives. Additionally, once I log off and back on, the drives are gone in spite of the fact that I have explicitly selected that the configuration is run at every login AND not to erase existing mappings before running the command.
most reports greyed out free version
I believe this just happened after the last dc sp release. most of my reports are greyed out and not usable in free version with 8 pc's. supposed to have all functionality of full version isn't it? thanks. fyi, support file with logs from server sent right now too.
Agent Setting - Enable Firewall Settings
When looking at the configuration settings for the Agent in DC6, it has the option to Enable Firewall Settings. In the popup balloon is specifies four things that will be set if you enable this: 1) Enabling Remote Administration 2) Enabling DCOM 3) Adding File and Printer Sharing to the Exceptions 4) Enabling Simple File Sharing in Windows XP The only problem that I have is #4. Why does DC6 need to enable this? Almost all of our machines (in a Domain and Active Directory environment) are set to uncheck
Network Browse Window Size Issue
Whenever the Network Browse window opens (picture attached) the window is undersized just enough to cut off the slider bar on the right side of the window. You have to scroll over from the bottom to be able to see it. You are also not able to resize the window. Would be very nice to be able to adjust the window size as well as being able to type the path of the target computer to speed browsing to the machine you want instead of having to scroll through several hundred computers. Thx! Richard
Active Directory Disabled Computers/Objects
We use Active Directory. I have noticed that when you go into Select Computers from Scope of Management (which it would be great if it spelled that out instead of SoM) that it shows all computers in AD no matter if they are disabled or not. We have several objects/computers that are disabled. Would be beneficial to have them at least be noted somehow in that screen if they are disabled. Otherwise I find that I am trying to push patches or software updates or Agents to machines that are disabled in
Error when updating to Build 60318
Currently running 60300 on Win Vista Business x86 platform. When going to update the error attached to this posting pops up. Any thoughts on what to do to fix this?
Patch management and software deployment
Hi, (DC=Desktop Central) 1) when i launched the patch management from the server to the client through DC agent in computer configuration, it does not execute on the client machine. when i checked teh status of the deployment in the DC server, it spilled out the error as " Could not copy the installables to the client computers: unknown error code: 4500080". Please suggest us where i missed out the installables and what is it? 2) when software deployment is used in computer configuration for uninstallation
Desktop Central Server Will not Start
The other day I went to go access the DC and it told me the database had stopped. I went onto the server (running Windows Vista Business x86) and found the error below in the event log, and the service will no longer start. It appears the DB is corrupted, how can I restore from one of my older backups? Below is a log entry that I found today on my DC server (running SP3). The system has not been touched or logged into for a week now, so I am not sure why or how this has happened. Please let me know
Patch for OS in Spanish
If I have my windows in English and will install the Add-on for that language is Spanish, does the tool or Central Desktop has to be all in English?
Dynamic Variables
I created a registry configuration to modify the "RegisteredOwner" and "RegisteredOrganization" values in the registry. In order to ensure that the RegisteredOwner values are setup correctly, I used the dynamic variable $DomainUserName that I selected from a list of available variables during configuration setup. The configuration appeared to be working for the first few days. Now I find that the dynamic variable is returning the value "SYSTEM" for $DomainUserName instead of the username of the person
Unified network agent
(during the wait of french patch management support ;p, I'm thinking, thinking and thinking again) Is their a way to have in the future, one unique and unified network agent for all ManageEngine products ? I'm explaining. Today we want : - Windows & Office patch managmement - Adobe Reader & Java Runtime software version - Check SNMP for network devices & computers - Backup computers - Corporate Antivirus (under Kaspersky Administration Kit) but to avoid bugs & compatibility problems, it should be
Post XPsp3+IE7 patches not downloading
Romanus, Let me start off by saying that the new native service pack deployment menu is a nice feature to have in DC and works flawlessly. But, after upgrading my test machines to sp3 and IE7, there are about 30-40 more critical Windows Updates that need to be installed. DC will not download the necessary updates to the patch db automatically nor when I try a manual download. The configuration for the download sits and spins its wheels. I feel much progress has been made up to this point but I do
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