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When I upgraded to 2.0.2207.2 my view settings did NOT change. Thank you for the feedback; this is the expected behavior with 2.0.2207.2.

If only the information about the Configure button was at the top of the instructions ;-) Graham, I'm actually curious about this situation. Which instructions are you referring to? In the Online Documentation, the section Quick Configuration and Navigation precedes the section Advanced Manual Configuration. And as…

Not an actual boot time... that you'll have to calculate. But Windows Calculator can calculate the boot DATE for you: Open Calculator Use Ctrl-E (or View -> Date calculation)

The other methodology to consider is installing Office from the network, but using the package as a delivery mechanism to run the setup.exe from the share. The package definition has an option to allow the WUAgent to validate that the machine has a good network connection. Ensure that the network share is READ-ONLY to…

and install full secondary application servers in each site. Deploying the Primary server into the corporate data center, and leaving it clientless, is a good approach. Then the next question from this then becomes: Where will you have administrators who use the Patch Manager console? In all sites, or only in the corporate…

It's near impossible to speculate on what happened, or even if what you did had anything at all to do with anything, based on what we have here. The good news is that all of the actual activity is logged in the WindowsUpdate.log, so I would suggest reviewing the WindowsUpdate.log from the time that IE10 was installed and…

Yes. See http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/53847 for confirmation.

hoagie wrote: I am allowed to use only versions that are listed on their approval list and those are usually older versions (I believe right now it's MRC 7.x). Regarding "the list", certainly v7.5.9 would be a starting point for getting upgraded, but I'd be surprised if newer versions were not already on that list. The…

Okay, perhaps I can help clarify how the task actually executes, and then that may put this in better perspective. The patching happens in what we might call quasi-parallel mode. It does not do all 600 systems simultaneously; in fact, a single Patch Manager server can do about 10-12 systems simultaneously. Assuming 10-15…

I don't believe that the system-defined template is editable; but it's also not automatically saved. In fact, there really isn't an actual default template, it's just the default settings of each individual object at installation. The good news, though, is that it's a very short list of what's not enabled by default, so…

True, that discussion from June, 2009, does suggest that is a solution; however, that solution is no longer available. Version 6.9 was originally released in April, 2010. It was a significant upgrade (added support for Windows 7), so it's somewhat surprising that you've not already upgraded. However, two years ago…

Yikes! So, based on what I read at HP ProLiant Updates Catalog for Microsoft System Center the location of the catalog for SCUP (the same catalog that Patch Manager uses), is listed in the "Microsoft third-party Partner Catalog List" ... except that it's not as far as I can see. Microsoft still has the old page listed on…

We've retested the JRE 7u6 packages against all combinations of Win7, IE8 and IE9, with and without UAC, and are unable to reproduce the reported behavior. Is the prompting of credentials at every instance of opening IE, regardless of the web page selected? Does it only occur when opening IE to the default Home Page? Are…

The WindowsUpdate.log won't help in this matter because this activity is actually happening external to the Windows Update Agent. For the sake of clarity, I would encourage you to remove all of the "sample actions" from the package. Do you actually have any other "After applying package" tasks that are relevant. The…

That may be true. The authoritative answer, however, would come from a conversation with an NCM sales rep. :-) However, it's likely a moot point..... unless the network otherwise has 47-51 nodes. The minimum license for NCM is a DL50. Whether the stack is considered one node, or four, it's likely an academic question at…

I'm not able to reproduce the behavior with the RealPlayer update. It's also possible that this was a transient issue. Since you have published the Opera package successfully, I would suggest trying the RealPlayer update one more time. If it continues to fail, please open a support ticket via the Customer Portal so that a…

Does "duplicating" mean, that i get a new package which i have to add as superseeded in the next versions package? Yes. So the follow-on conclusion is that if you customized JRE7u55, then the original (SolarWinds-provided) JRE7u60 no longer has the correct supersession information, and that needs to be updated as well. So…

Yeah, my response was somewhat predicated on ownership of the database. :-) It won't do you anygood on MSDB (but then, the better solution might be to just exclude MSDB from monitoring completely). For the BlackBerry ServerConfig table.... ouch. Regarding changing the Fill Factor.. I pondered that option (for quite a…

I'd like to set up a GoToMeeting session so that I can see this as it occurs. There are no other SQL permissions to grant, as 'sysadmin' is full access. Another possibility that could be related. The installer needs to validate the account that is created for the service, and to do that it must be able to query Active…

I did the following: Under "Administration and Reporting/Software Publishing/Sun Packages" I selected "Java Runtime Environment 7u65 (x86 for x64)", did a right click, choose "publish packages" ... and at following Patch Manager Publishing Wizard window my package with the same package ID was written "Copy of Java Runtime…

That's the thing--I'm having trouble even figuring out which 134 PCs it's complaining about. If I run the WSUS Server Computers Updates Count Info report that comes standard with SWPM, I get 41 computers Presumably it would be the 93 PCs that do not appear in the stock report. It should be fairly trivial to sort those two…

if i publish a package from "publishing software node" on the central WSUS server, i will see this the pakage in the "3rd patch Update" view? Yes. do i need to publish/install (or not) the certificate on both WSUS downstream before the replication ? The certificate must exist *everywhere*: All WSUS server, All PM Servers,…

Since this post was originally made, we have released an update to Patch Manager that resolves some of these UAC-caused issues. The update is available from the SolarWinds Customer Portal.

According to what I've read, a local SQL account must exist on the SQL server with sysadmin rights Aside from the original efforts to actually install SQL Server on that machine (which does require some type of account with local Administrator rights, and that account will automatically be granted membership in the…

The developer is not being responsive in our requests to create a fully silent package. My misunderstanding; I thought this developer was in-house. In this type of case, will an .mst file potentially be needed? Well, that depends. Do you need to customize any of the options in the default installation? I clicked on your…

In a general sense, issues with WOL come down to one of two areas of investigation. 1. Was the device successfully enumerated in a Patch Manager discovery task? By running an IP Addresses report in the Discovery report category and inspecting the IP Address of the client -- note whether a MAC Address is identified for that…

Yikes! You're right. The NETBIOS names also create a conflict within the Management Group itself. If you're up for it, a workaround to that would be to install a second Management Role server just to manage the other domain. There's more information about Management Groups and Management Role Servers in this Product Blog…

The service is used by all of the Orion products. Patch Manager has it's own internal job engine, so it does not require the SW job engine. Just keep this issue in mind should you wish to add some other product to that web instance (e.g. SAM, NPM, etc.)

The steps are: 1. Create a self signed cert from server publishing setup wizard upstreamwsusserver.yourdomain.org -- this creates the Local Computer/WSUS store 2. Provision and Import a code signing cert into the Local Computer/WSUS store 3. Remove the self signed cert that was created in step 1 from the Local…

To be more clear, the 32 simultaneous connections is really a theoretical maximum. Depending on the number of simultaneous tasks that are executing there is some thread overhead associated with each task, and in some cases there is some thread overhead associated with setting up the RPC/WMI connections. You can inventory…