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Current Microsoft Security Bulletin Naming Convention As Of April 11th, 2017
Overview Starting with the April 11th 2017 Patch Tuesday, no longer has used a traditional naming format for Security Bulletins. To help our customer's, we created our own naming format as follows: The...
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How To: Import third party catalogs using Patch for SCCM
Purpose This document will guide you through importing third-party catalogs into Ivanti Patch for SCCM. Description The steps below show how to configure Ivanti patch for SCCM to import third-party...
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What it means when patch QNumbers are displayed with a D at the end
Purpose The purpose of this document is to outline the new changes in viewing detect only patches. Symptoms Patch Q numbers are displayed with a "D" at the end of the Q Number and will detect as...
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Important information on detection logic for the Intel 'Meltdown' security...
Overview Microsoft has identified a severe compatibility issue with a small number of anti-virus software products. We highly suggest all customers review these issues here:...
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Unsupported Patches - List And Reasoning
Purpose This document provides a list of patches that have been released by supported vendors, but that we have chosen to not support, as well as the reason why. If you have a question about a patch...
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Agent Policy Walk Through - Patch Tab
Purpose The purpose of this document is to walk through the agent Patch tab, in order to understand and utilize these functions and features of agents. DescriptionPatch Tab:Add a Patch TaskCreates a...
View ArticleURL exception list for Shavlik Protect - Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers...
Overview This document provides a list of required URL addresses for Shavlik Protect and Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers to allow: Patch executable download.Patch content definition download.Online...
View ArticleURL exception list for Shavlik Patch For Microsoft System Center - Patch for...
Purpose This article provides a list of URLs that may be required to download catalog content and patches when using Shavlik Patch for Microsoft System Center and Ivanti Patch for SCCM. Description The...
View ArticleDeployment fails with Error 1618: Another Installation is already in progress
Symptoms The following error is encountered either during installation/removal of an update or other software. The Ivanti Patch for Windows deployment logs, the product's Installation log files, and...
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How To: Deploy Windows Security OOB updates released January 3, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this document is to discuss the behaviors when deploying the Windows Security out-of-band updates that were released on January 3, 2018.The following document contains...
View ArticleEnabling TLS 1.2 for Shavlik Protect and Ivanti Patch for Windows
Purpose This document outlines the steps necessary to ensure that Shavlik Protect and Ivanti Patch for Windows can make use of TLS 1.2 when TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are disabled. Symptoms When TLS 1.0 and...
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How To: Supply and Deploy Patches That Can Not Be Downloaded
Purpose The purpose of this document is to discuss how to make patches available for deployment when they can not be downloaded through Protect or Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers. Cause This can be...
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How To: Uninstall Java using a Custom Actions
Purpose The purpose of this document is to provide a batch file to use with the Custom Actions feature in Shavlik Protect and Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers to uninstall Java up through version 7...
View ArticleHow To: Know When XML/Catalog Updates for Patch for Windows and Patch for...
Purpose This document will provide information about how to obtain information about Ivanti Patch for Windows XML updates (patch definitions) and Ivanti Patch for SCCM updates (catalog updates)....
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Published Updates Fail To Install On Client With Error: Failed To Download...
Symptoms Updates publish without issue but they fail to install on the client.This error has been shown on C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CCM\Logs\WUAHandler.log Failed to download updates to the WUAgent...
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How to: Scan for the Null Patch using the Custom Actions scan filter
Purpose The purpose of this document is to show how to scan for the null patch. The null patch is a blank executable detected as a patch for testing purposes or custom actions as is mentioned here...
View ArticleExplanation of how patch scan detection works in Shavlik Protect, Ivanti...
Purpose The purpose of this article is to explain how patch scan detection works in Shavlik Protect, Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers and patch scan SDK. Overview To understand the basics of how the...
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Workaround for customers who are not receiving catalog update emails for...
Purpose We have identified an internal issue which is preventing catalog update emails to be sent to some of our Patch for SCCM customers. This document is a workaround until we can correct this...
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How To: Run An Executable or MSI With A Custom Action
Purpose The purpose of this document is to show to how run an msi or executable with a custom action. For the example in this document, we will be using a .msi file which may use different command line...
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