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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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 –…

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