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 July 2014 Patch Recommendations
6 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 3 Important, and 1 Moderate This Month In Brief We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS14-037 and MS14-038 are rated Critical. MS14-037 is yet another cumulative update for Internet Explorer 6-11 which fixes 24 vulnerabilities.…
New VA partners – Do you have all your parts?
You know when you go to assemble a project and they show you all the parts and tools you will need on the first couple of pages? If you are like me, you probably skip right to Step 1, but in our case, I want to ask that you to check a few things to…
Virtual Administrator’s June 2014 Patch Recommendations
7 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 7 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 5 Important We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS14-035 and MS14-036 are rated Critical. MS14-035 affects Internet Explorer…
Kaseya KLC – Google disables Live Connect Plug-in
Well our friends at Google decided to enforce an even stricter set of security policies, basically turning off any plug-in that can’t be found in the Google Web store. Symptom: You launch Google and get a message that “Extensions disabled by Chrome”, or when you try to run KLC inside Kaseya, Google keeps trying to re-install…
Virtual Administrator’s May 2014 Patch Recommendations
9 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 6 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 8 New Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 6 Important Microsoft included the May 1st out of band patch (MS14-021) in May’s Security Bulletins . This was previously approved the day it became available – see https://virtualadministrator.com/blog/microsoft-internet-explorer-vulnerability-patch-release/…
Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability Patch Release
Yesterday we wrote an article about a new Microsoft Vulnerability in Internet Explorer. While we were initially lead to believe that this was a flash issue, it was brought to our attention that the issue goes deeper than that. While we’re working on a script which can solve damage from this vulnerability, right now it…
Kaseya and latest Microsoft Vulnerability in Internet Explorer
**EDIT: It has been brought to our attention that the vulnerability runs deeper than Adobe Flash. Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch to address this issue. We’ve written another blog post here with more information.** We have a new script that will keep the IE Vulnerability from being exploited, however the likely best…
Virtual Administrator's April 2014 Patch Recommendations
4 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 2 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We are denying KB2919355 at this time- see details below. All other patches have been approved. MS14-017 and MS14-018 are rated Critical. After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure these are installed.…
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One of the most complimentary offerings to managed services is VOIP. By offering monthly phone services to companies you can increase the income from your clients, sometimes by up to double what a standard managed services contract provides. Also by controlling the phones, you increase your company’s stickiness and make it very hard for clients…
Third Party Updates March 26 2014
Updated: Flash Firefox / Chrome, Flash Firefox / Chrome Updated, Flash IE, Flash IE Updated, Notepad++, Notepad++ Updated, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, Filezilla, Defraggler, VLC, FastStone, iTunes, Firefox, Chrome, Silverlight