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Alan, this is an issue with the product installer, not WSUS or Patch Manager. For whatever reason, the product installer is unable to create a Registry Value in the specified Registry Key (HKLM\Software\BigHand\TotalSpeech\v3). The Administrators group, and the PM Credentials, will have no impact here. At this point the…

Since this is technically being deployed via my GPO and WSUS, same as any other Windows Update, why would this not work? Error 1303. The installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory: c:\Documents and Settings\All Users Because an update deployed via GPO is typically executed in the context of a local…

We just did a SWLab episode yesterday that talks about this very setup, including diagrams and Cisco commands. Solarwinds Lab #16 Service Pack 1: Configuring Span Ports, Packet Analysis and Netflow Correlation In short, the 'node' for the Network Sensor, should be the node hosting the Network Sensor, which should be…

For -125- nodes, you shouldn't have any issues at all running WSUS-with-WID and Patch Manager with SQL Express on the same server. At least two vCPU (or a dual-core CPU if physical), 4GB RAM, and a four-spindle RAID10 array will be quite sufficient for that client load. If you're not able to accomodate the array, having…

This is correct, Andrew. With the migration of Patch Manager to the .NET Framework v4 in v1.85, it is no longer possible to incorporate the Patch Manager snap-in into a downlevel (CLRv2-based MMC). This was documented in the Release Notes for v1.80 and in the current release notes for v1.85. This was an architectural…

The content in the HP and Dell catalogs is what is provided by HP and Dell. SolarWinds has no control, nor involvement, in the content of those catalogs. For information regarding the newer version of ProLiant Server packages for the HP Server catalog, you'd need to communicate directly with HP.

To be sure.... v6.1 is really old. Version 6.2 was released in May, 2007. Support for Windows 7 (released October 2009) was not added until version 6.9 (April 2010), so any functionality you have had with Windows 7 was purely luck. As such, there is a vast unknown of possibilities of things that could be configured on a…

My initial network discovery kicked off on Friday, but it's still in a running state on Monday What is the target of the discovery task? What does the Active Tasks node show as far as the state of the task? The same for my scheduled inventory tasks What is the target of the inventory task? How many objects are in that…

Console says "Not Applicable" for the machines approved for "Install" (my test group) under the WSUS server\Updates\Third Party Updates\Computers Summary Also Update Details tab says Computers needed 66, installed 0 when I know for a fact at least a few are installed. The only way I'm aware that such an inconsistency could…

A couple of very important points to keep in mind when using /detectnow and /reportnow. The /reportnow function is only processed when: * There are completed events to report to the WSUS server. * The WUAgent is IDLE. This last point is a key consideration to keep in mind. The WUAgent always automatically executes a…

It's not easy. :-) But it has been done by a very few ambitious, determined, and patient people over the years. I would suggest starting by reviewing these previous conversations, and note that you'll need to modify WSUS to accept the larger CAB file size. Creating an Office 2007 package Deploy Microsoft Office 2010 Push…

Microsoft did expire their Skype update about an hour ago. WSUS servers should pick up that expiration at their next synchronization. For a reliable Skype update, I would suggest using the SolarWinds Skype packages for v5.10 which were released on June 15th.

Greetings Richard. I can't really speak directly to "future plans" for any product, including Patch Manager; however, you should monitor the "What We're Working On" posts for future developments. What I can speak to, however, is the architecture of Patch Manager, and its dependencies on WSUS and the Windows Update Agent,…

The package that has the customized packageboot.xml -- is that a Duplicate of a package from the Patch Manager catalog, or did you edit a catalog package directly? Can you identify a specific update package where this occurred, so that I can test the behavior on my own system?

Right on the money with the analysis, Johan. This is certainly a problematic Installed Rule. The issue exists in the Common Path and Path value. Due to an implementation issue with our XML generator, failing to define a COMMON_PATH results in the inclusion of an undefined attribute in the underlying XML, which confuses the…

The very first node in the DRS console should be the "Active Directory" node. When you drill into that node, you'll have one subnode for each domain. If you drill into the domain, you'll have access to the full OrgUnit structure of the domain.

Greetings The initial installation of the LEM Appliance is configured as a DHCP client, so if you are not using DHCP, that would certainly explain the lack of an assigned address. To assign a static address to the LEM Appliance please refer to SolarWinds KB4321 - Configuring a Static IP Address For Step #1, substitute the…

Does the third-party update which is approved show that the files for that update are downloaded?

To deploy Dell Catalog updates via WSUS/Patch Manager, you'll need to install the Dell OpenManage Inventory Agent. This package provides the WMI namespace that the detection logic from the rest of the packages is built upon.

No, it isn't, and actually the Microsoft updates don't do this either. What you're likely observing with Microsoft updates (and some third party updates do this as well), is that files being replaced by an update are locked, so those file transfers get queued for copy-on-startup. The WUA launches the reboot when the…

There is no way to change the context in which packages are installed, this will always be the SYSTEM context, but it's not the user context that is preventing the display of the UI in the package. The ability to display UI content to a logged on user is driven by an option defined in the package. On Advanced Options,…

JRE - TURN-OFF AUTOMATICE UPDATES - ACTIVE DIRECTORY ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATE

I'm using ipMonitor which has a build-in web server. I need to turn off SSL 3.0 support in the server Instructions for removing SSL v3 support (or other protocols) is covered in Microsoft KB187498. Essentially you create a RegValue named "Enabled" in the relevant KEY and set it to DWORD=0x0

Greetings Casey! In the UI there is no ability to multi-select and change the Content column. (Admittedly not an optimal situation.) You can, however, FILTER the Publishing Wizard dialog to show only the packages you have selected (which may help) -- at least makes the list contiguous. Now, another part of this is the…

More specifically, the Computer Explorer requires Windows Management Instrumentation (which is the reference to the dynamic ports 1024-65536). The way to enable this is through the "Windows Management Instrumentation" rules in the Advanced Firewall configuration, rather than trying to create rules (which is what the…

I just found this on the PatchManagement.org mailing list... you can achieve this via WMI. Create this as a script object, and then use the "Run a program" option to execute the script to terminate the Flash process. strProcessKill = "'FlashUtil%ActiveX.exe'" Set objWMIService =…

As far as I know, it does not. It requires an explicit process name. Which can be particularly problematic for the Adobe Flash scenario, since they've created this unique process naming scheme.

However, I can see already that this will cause a problem with third party updates. Not as much, any more, I've learned. Recent enhancements in the Windows Update Agent (or WSUS, I'm still not sure when/where it appeared), now allow for a WSUS server without a local (Microsoft) content store to successfully host…

Currently NCM/Cirrus data and verbs are only available via SWIS v2. Here are some additional details in a conversation from last summer: SWQL Studio 1.5/1.6/1.7 unable to view Cirrus.* tables. UPDATE: [1/31 1305 GMT] NCM is being updated to support SWIS v3, What We Are Working On For NCM After 7.2 and that capability is…

According to the logfile posted: Cannot open log for source 'SolarWinds TFTP Server'. The logfile is created in ~\Documents\Solarwinds\Logging of the user context in which the TFTPServer is launched. Verify that the pathname exists, or can be accessed, or see if it can be manually created. Also, I notice you've defined the…