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 February 2015 Patch Recommendations
9 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 6 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We are releasing all security patches this month, however many of these have known issues that you should be aware of and are documented below. These known issues have workarounds and/or can be corrected by uninstalling the given…
Why don't my SonicWall GMS reports have any data?
As part of our SonicWall GMS Gold program we send out reports for each firewall either weekly or monthly. From time to time, partners notice that there is data missing from the report and figure there is some setting on our side that fixes it. Most of the time this happens with the…
4 Reasons you should register your SonicWall firewall with GMS
When you sign up with our SonicWall GMS (Global Management System), we ask you to delete your firewall from your MySonicWall account, so that it can be absorbed by our GMS MySonicWall account. This freaks people out a little bit, especially if they have never worked with us before. If you are not…
Virtual Administrator’s January 2015 Patch Recommendations
8 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical, 7 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS15-002 is rated Critical. After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure it is installed.…
Virtual Administrator's December 2014 Patch Recommendations
7 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 4 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have uncovered problems with some of this month’s patches/updates and are not releasing all of them. This month we really need to try and look at the bright side. Microsoft has pulled many of the problem patches…
Virtual Administrator’s November 2014 Patch Recommendations
14 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 8 Important, and 2 Moderate This Month In Brief 14 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 8 Important, 2 Moderate “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” Good – No major problems with this month’s patch releases. Bad – There are 14 of them. Ugly –…
Taming POODLE using Kaseya
So yet another SSL vulnerability was discovered, and this one is not something they can simply issue a patch for, as it takes advantage of the existing SSL 3.0 protocol. The only fix is to basically turn the protocol off, so it can’t be used. If you want full information about POODLE , you can read about…
Virtual Administrator's October 2014 Patch Recommendations
8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 Important We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of the 8 Security Bulletins and are releasing all of them. MS14-056, MS14-057 and MS14-058 are rated Critical. After…
Virtual Administrator’s September 2014 Patch Recommendations
4 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical, 3 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 4 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical, 3 Important (Security Bulletin MS14-045 rereleased – see below) We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any security bulletins and are releasing all of them. Note: Non-security update KB2889866…
Virtual Administrator’s August 2014 Patch Recommendations
9 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 7 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 9 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 7 Important We have denied KB2982791, KB2976897 and KB2970228 in all patch policies. All three have caused BSOD on a limited number of machines. KB2982791 and KB2976897 are Security Bulletin…