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i need to found the old version 6.9.0.4 of dameware Older versions of the DameWare products are no longer available. The current version is v10.

As a follow-up, this scenario may also occur after installation of KB2720211, or anytime WSUS is installed/reinstalled/upgraded on a machine where Patch Manager is already installed. Patch Manager sets the ACL on this registry key at installation, but WSUS deletes and recreates the key, without the ACL change.

Also, where do I go to request that Trillian should be added to the patch list? Patch Manager Feature Requests

The Patch Manager console will automatically integrate with a pre-existing instance of the Configuration Manager 2012 console. When the PM installer runs, it detects the presence of the CM2012 console, and offers an opt-in checkbox in the installer dialog to install the CM2012 console integration. This occurs on both…

The installed operating system is a native attribute provided by the WSUS server, listed in the "Operating System" column of any WSUS Target Group display. Inventory of installed software is a feature provided by Patch Manager and can be obtained in two different manners: * Using the Windows Update Agent's built-in…

Yes you can. There are two things to note about using an external certificate. 1. The certificate must be a code-signing certificate issued to the WSUS server. 2. The certificate will need to be imported using a command line tool we have developed for that purpose. To get the command line tool, you'll need to open a ticket…

How does the wizard choose which template to use? Whichever template is currently selected in the Inventory Configuration Editor. As a matter of practice, I recommend opening the ICE prior to creating an inventory task to confirm which template is selected. To be fair, earlier versions of the product did do this, and…

There are two ways you can approach this 'bundled' scenario. The first is using a built-in capability of the Microsoft Software Deployment Package (SDP) package definition called "Bundled Packages". This functionality is described in the WSUS SDK at Relationships Among Updates. However, a 'bug' in previous editions of…

Not really comparable products, and definitely no replacement relationship. ipMonitor is the monitoring tool. As part of it's existence it has the capability to generate alerts. But the management of those alerts is somewhat basic. Alert Central is exclusively an alert management engine. It allows you to take those alerts…

I'm confused, Alan. Patch Manager provides automated daily synchronization with the HP catalogs. Are you saying that functionality is not working? I'm not familiar with the designations 'PSP' and 'PSS' as apply to updates.

How do I delete the WindowsUpdate.log from within the PatchManager You don't. The WindowsUpdate.log is the logfile of the Windows Update Agent and exists on every system. The logfile has a max size of 2 megabytes, and the WUA automatically purges the oldest records to maintain the logfile under that size. Is there a way to…

By far, the single most common cause for updates that have been approved failing to download to the WSUS server is because an intervening device (proxy, webfilter, router) is not configured to fully support the HTTP v1.1 protocol specification (which, btw, is now 13 years old) with respect to Range Protocol Headers.…

There is no 14.0.0.179 patch for ActiveX browsers, so why is there an entry for this in the catalog? I don't see this in my package list... can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing?

This can be done with a single SQL statement on the appropriate column(s). The statement would be: UPDATE columnName SET columnName = LOWER(columnName) I would suggest using SELECT columnName, LOWER(columnName) AS LowerCaseName before launching the UPDATE so you can visually confirm that you're getting what you want. You…

This is entirely possible if the update was previously approved, not yet installed, and already downloaded by the client pending installation. Most likely in this case the uninstall did not actually happen because there was nothing to uninstall. But, as a result of the previous approval, the client had downloaded the…

Truly it depends on the extent of your playing. Groups can easily be deleted. Third-Party Update Packages can simply be re-synchronized. Microsoft-published packages that have been deleted are gone; that would require either re-importing the packages from the Microsoft Catalog or reinstalling the WSUS server. No doubt,…

AppInsight for SQL can definitely provide you with enhanced information about the Buffer Cache Hit Ratio. Buffer Cache Hit Ratio is one of the most critical performance characteristics of a SQL Server, and you want this value to always be above 90%. (Lower values mean the SQL Server is memory starved -- which is generally…

Even if your server did not synchronize for six months (Mar 2013 - Oct 2013), any updates not acquired since March 10, 2013, would have been acquired on October 18, 2013. You need to look at the Release Date column in the All Updates view, rather than the Arrival Date column to get an accurate perspective on what might be…

The primary advantage to using the MSI-based installer is that it can be remotely uninstalled via the Windows Installer Service. EXE's are a bit harder to uninstall, and quite often cannot be done so remotely. From the perspective of Patch Manager, the product provides a tool in Computer Explorer -> Installed Software to…

What version are you trying to install/register?

Credential Rings are not assigned to a Management Group, but rather to a User Profile (e.g. a console user). When Patch Manager is installed there is one User Profile created, the "Default User". That profile is assigned the <Default> Credential Ring. In the absence of any additional user profiles, ALL console users will…

Regarding the original question .... there have never been performance differentials between the Workgroup, Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter Editions of the various versions of SQL Server as far as the engine itself is concerned. The differentials between the editions of SQL Server have always been about features. Now,…

2014-01-16 11:42:58:817 1172 d2c Handler : WARNING: Command line install completed. Return code = 0x00000002 Any ideas why this install is failing via Patch Manager? The key here is why the installer is returning an Exit Code of 0x2. First objective would be to obtain a list of Exit Codes for Notepad++. It's a lot more fun…

I don't believe Number of Cores is a value that's available. The "Processor" datasource in the Computer (System Information) report category does return one row per socket, so machines with multiple sockets can be easily identified. Otherwise, I think you may have to infer "number of cores" from other attributes, perhaps…

Retention periods are documented in the Core Components Administrator Guide (and in each product's Administrator Guide) in this node:

Exception occurred at 6/11/2013 3:27:17 PM: Attempt to connect to TestWorkstation-XP01 failed. The following attempts were made: ARP Resolution result: No DNS Resolution result: No NETBIOS Name Resolution: No MS Endpoint Mapper: No WMI Connection: No Generally speaking, this collection of responses indicates a machine that…

My question is, does SolarWinds make a product that behaves similarly to create custom packages? No. But to be practical, creating a package for publication to WSUS generally does not require that level of configuration delta information. If it helps, a simple example of what I want to accomplish is to deploy print drivers…

This is correct, and is documented in the Product Description of the iTunes 10.6.3.25 package.

Greetings Jay. Some good points and questions from your post, and a lot of this all wraps around the WSUS update in KB2720211 that came out last month. The WUAgent v7.5 systems would be Win7SP1 and Win2008R2SP1 systems. SP1 updated the WUAgent from v7.4 (which shipped with WSUS3SP2) to v7.5. KB2720211 and any connections…

Knowing how you defined the report would help in assisting you to troubleshoot the report, but I think the easiest way to get a report showing number of Critical Updates and Security Updates needed by machine type {Server | Workstation | Domain Controller } is to do the following: * Open the report Computer Update Status…