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Virtual Administrator’s September 2012 Patch Recommendations

2 Security Bulletins were released – 0 Critical and 2 Important We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. Unusually quiet this month, only 2 patches and neither are critical.  Windows, Office and Internet  Explorer are unaffected this month. No out-of-band updates were released during…

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Monitoring Hard Drive failures through Kaseya

Does losing client’s data keep you up at night? As a managed services provider, one of our biggest fears is the loss of client’s data.  It is probably the single most thing that we worry about and discuss constantly.     At Network Depot (our local MSP division), we spend considerable resources monitoring backups to…

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Virtual Administrator's March 2012 Patch Recommendations

We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS12-020  is rated Critical.  After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure this is installed.  This is an RDP vulnerability and only machines with this enabled are at risk.  Although this was…

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Kaseya KLC Rocks! (no I haven't been drinking!)

Give Kaseya Live Connect (KLC) another try.   I know you are probably thinking I have gone off the deep end, the Kaseya community site has plenty of messages about problems with KLC, and I have written several blog articles about how to make it more efficient, but something happened a few weeks ago that…

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Give Your Clients Remote Control Access To Their System Using Kaseya

In version 6.2, Kaseya allowed SaaS partners to give their users access to their machines.  Follow the easy instructions below to provide your clients more value from your service. Click on Agent Tab (Button #1) Go to Configure Agents-> Portal Access (#2). Select the computer you wish to give remote access to (#3) Give them…

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Kaseya releases Kaseya AV 1.2 (KAV)

Kaseya has released the next update to their Kaspersky implementation in their RMM tool. KAV 1.2 bring, among other things, server support.

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