How to find the rules associated with Software Releases
The following query has the ability to list all Software Releases and their associated rules or just the rules associated with a specifc Software Release:SELECT rsr.Name AS [Software Release],rir.Name...
View ArticlePlease include these updates in PMImport Dec 2013
Officehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/2850079http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2837593 .Net (late Nov update)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2858725 Other recommended...
View ArticleHow to find text within database tables
Here is a handy SQL query that will allow you to search your database tables for a particular word or words (tested against SQL 2008 R2): **********************************CREATE TABLE myTable99...
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Patch Management - Failed to Process CAB file
Oui, j'ai besoin d'une solution I upgraded to 7.5 last Friday and over the weekend and have one problem. It is with Patch Management not importing the CAB file. Here is a screenshot of the error. Has...
View ArticlePlease add Microsoft security hotfix update KB2825795 to Patch Management 7.1...
Please add Microsoft security Hotfix update KB2825795 to Patch Management 7.1 sp2
View ArticleRandomized Assessment Scan - Any clever ideas?
Oui, j'ai besoin d'une solution As several others have posted in the past the windows assessment scan for patch management kicks off at the same for all our servers and triggers alarms in our vmware...
View ArticleMicrosoft security update requires restart, server keep pending on restart fo...
Oui, j'ai besoin d'une solution Hello there, I have serveral windows servers (2003 & 2008) scheduled to be installed with November and December 2013 patches which have some patches require server...
View Article7.5 Patch Management - Flash 12
Oui, j'ai besoin d'une solution Will Patch Management upgrade Flash 11 to Flash 12 or does that need to be done via Managed Software policy?If Patch can't handle it, which I believe was the case from...
View ArticleUseful SQL queries concerning Collections/Filters
The following queries will allow you to see which collections/filters a resource belongs to, which resources are members of a collection/filter, which collections/filters are excluded from/included...
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ITMS 7.5 Symantec Help Center questionnaire
We welcome your feedback on ITMS 7.5 Symantec Help Center.To help us find out how effective ITMS 7.5 Symantec Help Center is, and to identify areas for improvement, please provide answers to the...
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Required Privileges and Permissions for the 6.x Resource Selector
How to assign security to a Role so that it can open the Resource Selector in order to either add or exclude resources to a collection? 01Create a Role with these Global Privileges. 02Create a tree...
View ArticleLocate a Target's guid so that you can then update its membership
Task Server provides a task to update specific filter memberships; however, it doesn't provide one to update specifc target memberships.As policies are assigned to targets in 7.x (can be a combination...
View ArticlePatch Report
Oui, j'ai besoin d'une solution Hello All,Is there a way to get list of all Microsoft patches installed via Sql. Looking for a sql query that would fetch me the results of all MS Patches installed in...
View ArticleITMS 7.5 HF3 is out
HF3 for ITMS 7.5 is now available via SIM. Please review the attached screenshot for the seven products that it can update.
View ArticleHeads up: SMP 7.5 does not record report outputs in its logs like 7.1 does
One unfortunate difference between SMP 7.1 and 7.5 is that in 7.1, when you run a report, the SMP records a number of "Altiris.Reporting....." entries in its logs; two of which were high useful:...
View ArticleAdobe patch reporting problem is back
Oui, j'ai besoin d'une solution This issue that I previously reported here unfortunately is back - https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/adobe-flash-patch-reporting-problem-so-frustratingThe...
View ArticleUseful Performance Counters for Troubleshooting ITMS 7.x
I have attached two template XML files (created on Windows Server 2008 R2) that can be imported into Performance Monitor on either the SMP Server or the SQL Server, in order to help identify potential...
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Updating Java through Managed Software Delivery Policy (Updated article)
I previously wrote up my updating Java process as an article for 7 update 45, but when 7 update 51 came out our users were still presented with an update Java prompt. In order to try to simplify the...
View ArticleUser Actions in Last N Days report
Although this report was created for 6.x, it does still run on 7.x as well.Its dropdowns allow you select the type of action as well as the user you are interested.It also has a dialog box where you...
View ArticlePlease include this update in PMImport Jan 2014
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2913431I'm PMImport 7.1.501
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