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Microsoft Recall in Windows 11 Update 24H2: Coming To A Computer Near You

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Say hello to “Recall,” a new addition with Windows 11 Update 24H2 that started rolling out earlier this week—but is it a helpful tool, or are we asking for a privacy nightmare?

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Virtual Administrator’s November 2012 Patch Recommendations

6 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 1 Important, and 1 Moderate We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. Noteworthy Patch News Critical update MS12-071 for Internet Explorer is the top priority this month. However the problem only affects IE 9 so the…

7 Steps to Troubleshoot Kaseya/Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) Installation Problems

Installing Anti-Virus can often be a little painful.  If you are working with Kaspersky (KAV), here are a few basic troubleshooting steps from our Virtual Administrator support Guru,  Jim Bulger: 1)    Check to see if the install was successful but script timed out before verification  After a failed install check the end point for the avp.exe…

Virtual Administrator’s October 2012 Patch Recommendations

7 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical and 6 Important We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS12-064 is the top priority this month.  After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure this is installed.  MS12-066 and MS12-067…

Check your Kaseya SaaS agent counts!

We recently ran across a combination of events that might lead to your paying for more Kaseya SaaS agents than you need.

Kaseya Patch Management Crash Course – Chris Amori September 25

Chris Amori gives a crash course on Kaseya patch management. He shares his rules of patch management as well as working with Patch status.

Out of Band patch released today – Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-063

1 Out of Band Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical Due the urgency of this release we have immediately approved it in all patch policies. SaaS partners managing their own patch policies should consider approving this immediately if not already automatically approved by the Default Approval Status for Critical (High Priority) updates. Exploitability Publically…

Should MSPs Offer Thirty Day Trials?

We had an interesting conversation with one of our clients recently and Chris penned a response which I thought was very much worth sharing with the greater community. The question of the hour is offering trials to your prospects in order to convert them over to clients. Here are Chris’ thoughts on the matter (with…

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…

Live Virtual Helpdesk NOC Services – Feat. Live Virtual Helpdesk August 29th

Trevor Nelson, Nick Blozan, and Mitch Cipriano from Live Virtual Helpdesk join Dan Kolansky and Chris Amori from Virtual Administrator to bring you a new NOC offering from Live Virtual Helpdesk.

Stay tuned to learn more!