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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Control Windows 10 upgrades by Uninstalling KB3035583 through Kaseya
Some of your client’s may have already, or soon will, call you about the little “pop-up” regarding an “invitation” to upgrade to Windows 10. You can thank Microsoft for this, who quietly included this piece of adware are in the KB3035583 patch release. If you Google “KB3035583 Windows 10”, you will find many articles about…
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…
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…
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…
Using Kaseya Live Connect (KLC) with Chrome version 42 +
So our friends at Google Chrome, in an effort to make the world a better place, have of course made life with Kaseya more difficult! Chrome has disabled the use of the NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) in the browser by default, so now the KLC plug-in will no longer function. There is good news and…
Virtual Administrator’s April 2015 Patch Recommendations
11 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 7 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of 11 Security Bulletins and are releasing all of them. We have seen problems with KB2889923, KB2990214 and KB3013769 and have denied them in all patch polices – see…
10 Years Of Network Depot!
I was a bit dubious this morning when Chris asked me if I wanted to join in on an office party today. April 1st is a scary day to do anything in the office, but it turns out that it is indeed true. Network Depot turns 10 years old today. The journey has been a…
Virtual Administrator’s March 2015 Patch Recommendations
14 Security Bulletins were released – 5 Critical, 9 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of the Security Bulletins and are releasing all of patches associated with them. Non-rated Security Update KB3033929 is being denied in all patch polices. MS15-018 is Cumulative Security Update…
MalwareBytes blocked Kaspersky's DNS Lookup of OpenDNS IPs?
Over the past year or so we have had several Kaseya tickets at https://virtualadministrator.com with the following error: An active MalwareBytes AntiMalware threat was detected on {machinename} at {time}. The threat is: Name: IP-BLOCK Location: 67.215.66.149 (Type: outgoing, Port: 59789, Process: avp.exe) Status: ACTION REQUIRED! Needless to say it is a weird one! Why would MalwareBytes…
February Patch Recommendations Addendum And Update
There have been a few updates to some of the issues which we reported on last week in our February patch blog digest. For starters, there have been a few isolated incidents where clients are having difficulties installing patch KB2956128. It appears to have conflicts with Microsoft office 2010. While this isn’t widespread, the issues…