We mentioned this in our April Patch Blog, but we wanted to do a separate post to make sure everyone sees and understands the implications of this anomaly. Issue: Some Windows 11 machines with 23H2 are not getting the latest Cumulative Updates (CU). Symptom: The machine will appear to be fully patched, not only to Kaseya but also if you run Windows Update. However, if you run a Hot Fix check for either March or April’s CU, neither is installed. How to locate: We have a script you can find on ClubMSP called Windows 11 – Check Latest Cumulative Update (CU). You create a custom field and then run the script. It will check for either KB5053602 or KB5055528. If you don’t want to download and run the script, you can simply run this PowerShell command either locally or from within LiveConnect: if (Get-HotFix | Where-Object { $_.HotFixID -in @(‘KB5053602’,…
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Virtual Administrator’s April 2013 Patch Recommendations
9 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 7 Important, and 0 Moderate Noteworthy Patch News MS13-036 has been denied in all VA patch policies. All of the remaining patches have been approved. MS13-028 is a cumulative update for Internet Explorer and MS13-29 is for RDP. They are rated Critical. After your next patch cycle…
Problems with MS13-036/KB 2823324 Patch – Do not install
***EDIT*** We’ve created a script for removing this patch available here: https://virtualadministrator.com/scripts/uninstall-kb2823324/ Partners, Kaseya, Kaspersky and the industry are reporting problems with recently released patch MS13-036/KB2823324. It is currently recommended to NOT install this patch, and if you have already installed it, UN-install it BEFORE rebooting your computer.
Virtual Administrator’s March 2013 Patch Recommendations
7 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 3 Important, and 0 Moderate We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. Noteworthy Patch News MS13-021 addresses flaws found on Internet Explorer versions 6 to 10 for all versions of Windows. This has already been publicly…
Virtual Administrator’s February 2013 Patch Recommendations
12 Security Bulletins were released – 5 Critical, 7 Important, and 0 Moderate Out-of-band updates MS13-008 released on January 14 Virtual Administrator approved the patch as soon as it became available. https://virtualadministrator.com/blog/out-of-band-update-released-on-january-14-ms13-008/ Noteworthy Patch News We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. This is…
Kaspersky (Kaseya's KAV vendor) does well in 2012 Comparison
I often read threads how one IT person thinks “X” AV is better, and others swear “Y” is better, but I ran across a non-profit Australian organization called the Institute for Security in Information Technology – AV-Comparatives, who does on-going research and testing into how well different AV products ACTUALLY work. For 2012, I was happy…
Creating, Editing and Assigning Kaseya KAV profiles
By: Jim Bulger 1. Creating a profile There are two ways to create a new profile. You can create “New” profiles from scratch or you can “Copy” from an existing profile and edit as needed. Note: The “Sample Server Profile” and “Sample Workstation Profile” shown below, are templates and cannot be edited by anyone, but…
Out-of-band update released on January 14 MS13-008
Microsoft released an out-of-band patch on Monday. Out of band patch releases rarely happen and are generally because of a zero-day exploit that needs an immediate fix.
Problems found with KB2756920 causing issues with SharePoint and Exchange 2010
On Monday (1/14) we started seeing reports of problems with KB2756920 (MS13-004 ) affecting 2008 R2 servers, with .NET 3.5.1.
Virtual Administrator’s January 2013 Patch Recommendations
7 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. [UPDATE – 1-17-2013] — Please review Known issues from Microsoft for Patch MS13-004. We experienced this on several of our servers that met…
Keeping Kaseya Anti-Virus (KAV) up-to-date
Kaseya’s Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) will not automatically update/upgrade to the latest version. While virus definitions are updated automatically, the software itself requires manual updating. Verifying that KAV is up-to-date can be a little confusing. KAV 1.4 was released in October and replaced KAV 1.3. The older version is identified as “Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010” (Kaspersky 9)…