Month: May 2015

Adding Activation keys to SonicWall GMS in 8 easy steps

We sometimes get asked to move the SonicWall back to the partner’s MySonicWall account so they can add an activation key, but in reality you should be able to add your own keys, even while the firewall is inside Virtual Administrator’s GMS MySonicWall account.   Just follow the instructions below: 1. Take note of the current Subscription…

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Virtual Administrator’s May 2015 Patch Recommendations

13 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 10 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief Denied Security Updates MS15-045/KB3046002 This will likely be released next Friday (5/22) after further review – See below Denied Non-Security Updates KB3022345, KB3020370, KB3045645, KB3020369, KB3013531 MS15-043, MS15-044 and MS15-045 are rated Critical. After your next patch cycle…

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How to manually approve a patch in Kaseya

There are times with Kaseya that you simply don’t want to globally approve a patch, such as a Service Pack release, or today we had a Microsoft patch (KB3046002) that would fail if installed with other patches and is possibly part of a patch issue that shows “Stage 3 of 3…”.    For whatever reason, if…

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