Dwesktop Central - windows 10 privacy settings - disbale location
Hi, I want to disable the location setting in privacy settings. It' possible? Regards Rainer
Alerts - bitlocker missing, open firewall or USB port open ...
Hi, how can I get an immediately alert if bitlocker is missing, the firewall open ... ? Regards Rainer
Mobile data usage
Is there a way to introduce under profile the Data usage options (I think it's available only for android devices) It will be usefull to manage the "bill cycle", the "data usage warning" and the "data usage limit" options. thanks Stefano
Patch management and triggers - best practices?
I'm looking to setup some patch management that will scan, download, and install. After that deployment, I would like to start a timer/trigger for the next round> Example: 1. Scan>Download>Install by IP range, nightly. 2. 4 days later deploy these updates to a different set of IP's. 3. 7 days later deploy the another set of IP's. I'm looking to keep the care and feeding of my tiered deployment schedule to something I don't need to babysit everyday, other than looking for some initial errors. Even
.101 to .111 not compatible with my network
Before hand had no issue upgrading to latest now I can't because of error that "This build 10.0.111 is currently not compatible with your network. Click here to upgrade to latest compatible build. "Click Here" link point me to 10.0.0.93... in what kind of logic I should be upgrading 10.0.101 to 10.0.93... I though this check was fixed after reading couple old posts.. why is this happening still?
Minor Tweak Suggestion To System Tray Menu
So this is a suggestion that is very minor, nothing critical, it's just to address an annoyance. So in my company's environment, when we go to open up Desktop Central we go to the system tray area, right click the DC icon and choose the open web console option. It's great. Except that stop service is immediately above this. There have been a few instances where someone, myself included, has accidentally hit the stop service option. It's not a huge deal, you just start the service back up hooray,
Best way to overrride/manually uninstall a software after "Disable Uninstall option on Add/Remove Programs" accidently checked?
I'm wondering what the best way to uninstall a software after I've already deployed a configuration with an install package with the configuration checked for "Disable Uninstall option on Add/Remove Programs" Seems that every time I try to uninstall the program remotely, it fails on the client.. anyone have any sure fixes? Most of our clients are Windows 7 64-bit SP1 machines.
10649 Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB3172545) 64-Bit Edition Patch file being named with .cab instead of .msu
I was trying to deploy patch 10649 when I saw it failed with error %1 is not a valid Win32 application. When I look the patch name it is showing as csi-x-none_266122420989b7d28859d7227d5358f3b7d49af1.cab. Is there an issue with this patch? I attached a screen shot of the patch details.
Export Contracts in assetexplorer
Hi I like to export the contracts list from my assetexplorer to another instance of assetexplorer . Is that possible ?
Self Service Portal Disallow some users
Hello, I need to disallow all my district's students from accessing the self service portal. Is there some way I can do this? Possible hide the shortcut from all users in the Active Directory students group? Or only deploy the desktop shortcut to users that are not students? Thank you in advance for your help.
Desktop Central continues to offer wrong patches for Windows 10 versions
I am in the process of patching our Windows 10 boxes for the July patch cycle. ALL Windows machines are running the Anniversary Update (v1607) here - yet DS continues to think that we need a v 1507 patch. What is the issue with Desktop Central not knowing what version of Windows it is targeting? I have a half dozen machines here that always need this hand holding - I would have thought the system would have figured out to correctly identify a Windows client OS version number by now. Any ideas? Bruce
USB Reports
Has anyone any real experience using the USB auditing report in Desktop Central? Is there any way to make the reports more user friendly so I can email them straight to the users who need them?
User Administration - Member Server access
I'm looking to segregate workstations & member servers within the console. I would like our Help Desk to install/uninstall software from workstations but not member servers. Or limit the restart/shutdown function or any other tools to workstations only. Can I achieve this now or is it on the road map?
Desktop central - logfile work admin
Hi, Does exist a log file for the work of the admin . I want to see what have my substitutes done in my holidays. Regards Rainer
Desktop Central Server Patches on error
Hi Have for some time problems to install new patches on my desktop central server. Have over 2 years no problems with version 9. Switching to version was a problem because the database migration was not possible. At some point, I decided to reinstall the server completely. Fortunately, is only a small network. Also a multiple new installation brought nothing. If an patch is available the installation stop with error. Win2008 R2 server V: 10.0.89 to 10.0.93 Is there an uninstaller available or are
Add shared Network Printer issue
I am trying to add network shared printer through desktop central, when I browse 'Shared Network Printer Path', I can't see any printer in the list. Should I install desktop central agent on print server? Can some one provide some details? Thanks, Adam
Block third party updates for a certain product
Hi, Is it possible to stop receiving updates for a certain third party product? We would like to block all citrix receiver updates coming through and getting approved by mistake.
Freezing Windows 10 PC when remoting in
Hello all, I am having an issue that happens to about 30% of the windows 10 PCs in my environment. When trying to remote access them from desktop central, I can work for about 5 seconds and then the user's PC will completely freeze and have to be power cycled. This only happens to Windows 10 PCs and only some of them. Is anyone else experiencing this or able to provide some information on how I can prevent this from happening? Thanks
How to block third party updates for a certain product
Hi, Is it possible to block receiving third party updates for a certain product or to decline them automatically?
Introducing Web Content Filter, for managing access to web contents in Android devices?
Hi I saw in the new .111 that the following point appears Introducing Web Content Filter, for managing access to web contents in Android devices. is it the first step to have a "web content filter" in DC, for desktops next time? is there a roadmap for this? i am interesting thanks
Remote Control on Terminal Server Cluster
I can't seem to populate any users on the servers that are in my terminal server cluster. It will allow me to use the chat function, but cannot remote control the sessions. The only users that are populated are on the connection broker server (sr0dxets10). I would really like to use this product, but this would be it's main function for my Helpdesk.
Updates on Windows 7 causing several computers to get stuck at "stage 3 of 3" for hours
Hello, We use ManageEngine Desktop Central to push out all of our Windows Updates and various third party updates regularly. I have a number of computers that we recently installed a string of updates on, where more than half of them had this issue. These are all Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit machines. After rebooting the computers to complete updates, they get to the screen "Stage 3 of 3" "preparing to configure Windows", where it asks you not to turn off your computer. Then they just sit
Remote Registry take to long to open
I have been trying out the new remote registry feature and found it to be hit and miss. Sometimes when I manage a pc and open the registry it will open right away. Other times it will keep loading and eventually time out. Then I will have to try again. This is a nice feature but it does not seem to be working correct is this a known issue or is there some reason it takes long time to connect to the registry?
Scheduled e-mail alerts
Hello, We have recently started using Desktop Central to patch all of our computers and servers. We currently the notification set up for certain users based on the groups we have created, that is fine. What we have found is the staff in the company would like a reminder email one to two hours before it happens, this is just for the critical servers that we have to restart (fileserver, exchange etc) when patching takes place, At the moment this warning email is being sent manually to the company
Blocking third party updates for a certain software product
Hi, Is it possible to block receiving updates for a third party product? We would need to stop receiving updates for Citrix receiver because newer versions will not work under our current environment and therefore we would like to prevent receiving these updates who could be approved by mistake.
Visio Pro 2016
Hey All Wondering if anybody has been able to successfully create/install a package for Visio Pro 2016. Cant seem to get it working. I'm trying to set it up using configuration.xml file deployment script within DC Thanks! Brian
Hide the Desktop Agent for certain machines
Hi There, I know you can hide the agent tray icon for all machines. Is there anyway to hide the agent for only certain machines? We have terminal/Citrix servers where we don't want the users to see the tray icon. If not, are there any plans in the roadmap for development? Kind Regards, James.
Catastrophic failure
what is this error Catastrophic failure
New Remote Control in 10.0.111
Kudos to the desktop central team; at first glance we really like the new functionality (better dual monitor and task support) in remote control and it seems quicker. My group is excited to use it.
Desktop Central server updater won't run - black command window flashes quickly
Currently running DC version 10.0.93 on virtualized VMWare server running Windows 2012R2. Have been routinely applying update patches thru use of the UpdateManager in the bin folder. Went to do the latest update and nothing happens when I run UpdateManager, either by double clicking or by right clicking and "Run as Administrator" or by opening a command box and typing in UpdateManager. If I run it by double clicking or right-click-RunAsAdministstrator then I get a quick flash of the command window
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Manage Software Licenses
Hi There are lots of software components found in the software records. How can we keep track the license for suite products such as Microsoft Office and Adobe CC?
Error on WAN agent
Hello everyone, Just join the PitStop and first want to say thank you too all for sharing and being such great community. I am running in the some issue with the WAN client configuration for remote offices. It look like the client is connecting as once the laptop or computer connect to the internet and that where it stops... Only initial connection goes thru. Here is the error I am seeing on the client end from the agent: [ 2017-07-05 14:00:37:472 ] [ 5760 ] [ERROR] WaitingForResponse : WSARecv operation
Local users on Windows Servers based on the accounts in User Management
Hi, We're managing a lot of workgroup based servers (Windows OS) which don't have a central authentication solution like Active Directory. What I'm trying to find out if Desktop Central is a solution for this. I read the feature pages and noticed that Desktop Central can manage local accounts on each individual server (or as a group of servers). Correct me if I'm wrong, but.. when a user will change his/her password on one of the servers, it will not change on the other servers.. So is it perhaps
Patch windows spanning multiple calendar days
maybe i am mistaken but i was under the impression that i could patch across multiple days. example: Patch window = Starting Wed night at 10PM and Ending Thur morning at 2AM. This is a window of 4 hours. What I was previously advised to do in order configure this is below. Now i have not used this configuration in some time however we recently tried to use it again and what we experienced was that in practice this opened up a window from Wed Night at 10PM to a Thursday Morning at 2 AM and then
User Administration
When creating new users for administration they are unable to log in. Authentication type is domain but for some reason newly created users are showing up with authentication type DOMAIN vs. domain. Not sure that has any bearing on authentication or not. All other domain users can authenticate just fine. See attached.
Security best practices?
Hi everyone I would like to get feedback on how to expose Desktop Central to the Internet in a secure manner. The documentation on this topic is scarce. I have not found any best practices so far. I would really appreciate comments from the community. When we installed Desktop Central a few years ago, it was mainly used internally to patch out-of-date PCs and collect inventory data. The Desktop Central server was therefore set up in our LAN. Now we would like to make use of the following additional
Feature Request: Announcement
Right now Announcements Filtering are limited to Remote Office, Domain, User Custom Group, Individual Users.. It would be great if you could setup announcement based on AD OU's, Dynamic IP Groups, Dynamic PC Groups or any other filter scenarios that are already in the PATCH Management or any filter that can be created in DC already.. Currently Announcements is great tool but very limited capabilities.. In our current test case we use it to announce to users that patch deployment is happening (example)
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Feature Request Discussion: Distributed Server Repository Download
Would love to see possible feature to allow DServer to acquire needed patches from internet instead from Master Server. Most of remote offices have fatter pipe to internet than between offices.. Not sure if this is already the case but there is no documentation about it except the bandwidth settings between sites and replication schedule.
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