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Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
New community feature: Who's Online

I’ve added a new plugin to the community that shows who is currently here on the site. You’ll see it right below the All Categories dropdown:

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
What IT problem would you like to never have to deal with again?

Printers Projectors DNS Password resets Patching Backups 0 voters

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JayG
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
published in Product Updates
2019.12.06-01 Release Notes

Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where some Device Details pages were not loading properly. https://support.automox.com/help/archive-2017-2018-2019

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
OpenText buys Carbonite

Looks like OpenText wants to extend its portfolio: TechCrunch OpenText buys data security firm Carbonite for $1.42B – TechCrunch Carbonite has agreed to a $1.42 billion purchase by OpenText, an enterprise information management giant, ending weeks of speculation about the anticipated buyout. The deal marks a 78% premium on Carbonite’s share price on September 5, when it was... Anyone here a Carbonite customer?

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
What books have changed your life the most?

Include a couple that helped you in your career, and a couple that helped you in life in general. For me for career I’d have to go with: amazon.com The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup 4.4 out of 5 stars, and amazon.com Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity 4.4 out of 5 stars, ISBN: 978-0670899241, Viking, January 8, 2001, $13.49 For general life: Taught me to manage money better: amazon.com How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously*: Based on the Proven Principles and Techniques of Debtors Anonymous 4.6 out of 5 stars, ISBN: 978-0553382020, Bantam, May 8, 2012, $14.20 This one is technically a business book, but it helped me in other areas of life too

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dimforest
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
published in Product Updates
2019.12.04-02 Release Notes

Bugs Fixed an issue that returned messages larger than the maximum allowed in the Automox Console. https://support.automox.com/help/archive-2017-2018-2019

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
What percentage of your users are remote?

Here at Automox we’re mostly all in the office, except for Wednesday which is work from home day. How about at your office? Do you have many users who are remote part or all of the time?

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GeekyLibrarian
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
published in Product Updates
2019.12.03-01 Release Notes

Bug Fixes Fixed an issue that could prevent Devices page from loading when a device has an older agent version. Enhancements Enhanced the Automatic Reboot toggle description in the Policy editor. Refactored the Events API endpoint to increase performance and add additional filtering functionality. Increased the performance of the Activity Log Report. https://support.automox.com/help/archive-2017-2018-2019

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
published in Product Updates
2019.11.27-01 Release Notes

Bug Fixes Resolved an issue where an endpoint addition to a group via the console sent individual requests for each endpoint added. Fixed and issue when using RHEL 8 that was listing only uninstalled packages in the Device Details page. Enhancements Implemented performance improvements when using the console. https://support.automox.com/help/archive-2017-2018-2019

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
How To Manage IIS Websites In PowerShell

A friend of mine from the Spiceworks community, Bill Kindle, just wrote a nice article on using Powershell to automate managing your IIS sites. Check it out here: Adam the Automator – 3 Dec 19 How to Manage IIS Websites with PowerShell [Tutorial] Learn, step by step, how to build a PowerShell script to create an IIS website, managing IIS bindings and more!

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
Blog: Cyber Security Tips to Help Keep Your Company Safe During the Holidays

Every year, Cyber Monday kicks off the holiday season. Online consumers are poised and ready to take advantage of the cyber sales to stock up on holiday gifts for family, friends and, well, themselves. But, consumers aren’t the only ones positioned for “attack” on cyberspace. Cybercriminals are also at the ready to exploit the holiday shopping season and conduct malicious campaigns like spear-phishing to deliver malware in addition to your holiday presents. Why are the holidays a prime time for hackers? According to an article in ZDNet.com, in 2017 there was a 57.5% increase in attempted cyberattacks during the holiday season, with the peak hacking period occurring between Christmas and New Year’s day. And, this followed a year that saw a 21.5% increase above normal levels in the number of attempted cyberattacks during that same season. Why are the holidays a prime time for malicious online activity? Two key reasons exist: Cyber attackers have more opportunity to act without being no

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
Community maintenance for Nov 27th is complete

Thanks for being patient during the downtime. We’ve migrated to a new host for our community platform, so please let me know if you see anything wrong or missing now that we’ve switched over.

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
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jloudonChannel Partner
posted in Using Automox
Device Facts on Macs - Gatekeeper, FileVault, Firewall status

Curious if anyone else is using Automox to report on security feature status of Macs, namely whether or not Firewall/FileVault/Gatekeeper are enabled or disabled. I know it’s not in the Device Detail screen. Has anyone created a worklet or some other inventive way of managing this through Automox?

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
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Marco.Ho.LinkhkRookie
posted in Using Automox
How to list out those computer is non-compliance on single worklet Policy

Hi All, I have created the Worklet without a schedule to detect the computer setting, and assigned to the group included over 300 computer, how can I list out this computer is non-compliance on this single worklet or single policy?

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
How many of you are freezing your infrastructure for the holiday season?

I know that some retailers or ecommerce companies will freeze any patches or changes to production environments through the holidays, to avoid breaking anything. Are you in that camp? If so, when does your freeze start?

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
published in Product Updates
Blog: Automox Feature Update Coming Soon: Improved Severity Classifications for Patches

The Automox team has been hard at work upgrading our ability to classify patches based on severity level. This update leverages the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) CVSS v3.0 scoring model, which is the industry standard for evaluating vulnerabilities and correctly scoring them based on how exploitable they are and what their impact will be on a system or device. Automox Patch Management: Severity Levels The new Automox severity levels for patches will be: Critical, High, Medium, Low and None. The addition of “High” will allow a bit more nuance in the evaluation of vulnerabilities with “Critical” being restricted to only the most impactful and exploitable of vulnerabilities. The addition of “None” is to account for a vulnerability that has a score of 0.0. We will also introduce “Unknown” for any CVE that is awaiting analysis, does not have enough information to receive a score, etc. Remember that a CVE can be “Unknown” to start, but later have a severity level assigned that is the

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
What should we put on our 404 page?

Right now our 404 page is pretty boring: and we’re planning on sprucing it up. Help us out by suggesting ideas or linking to your favorite 404 pages!

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D-D-D-D-DropTheTable-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
Useful links added to community header

I’ve added some links to various resources such as the www.automox.com and the support site. Let me know if the links I’ve selected are useful and if there’s anything else you’d like added to the header: 24%20AM1068×72 10.2 KB Note that when you scroll down through longer discussion topics, some of the links disappear to make room for the topic title in the header. If you scroll back up to the top of the page then all of the links show up again: 50%20AM1070×63 9.84 KB Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
published in Product Updates
2019.11.18-01 Release Notes

Bugs Updated caching procedures to match how SeaMonkey and Adobe AIR listed new updates. https://support.automox.com/help/archive-2017-2018-2019

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
D-D-D-D-DropTheTable-Automox
D-D-D-D-DropTheTable-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
Future features and ideas portal

I know it’s linked in a pinned thread (sorry @Nic) , but I wanted to shoot this out here to make sure ya’ll see it. Automox keeps a board up-to-date with our new, upcoming, planned, and suggested feature ideas here: Feature Suggestion & Voting Obviously you can submit ideas there, and add your vote to existing ones, but as an employee here I’m curious what ideas you’re most interested in and opinionated about. Personally, I am most passionate about Dynamic Groups and the Device Compliance Report. From my point of view, being able to populate groups based on a set of rules, and have new devices that come online automatically move to the appropriate group is a game changer. Especially for customers with a good amount of churn on devices in their environment (reimages, replacement hardware, etc.). Any easy to use, group/policy filterable, compliance report is so helpful to admins having to report to management. You should be able to quickly pick a group or set of groups and see all

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J
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
published in Product Updates
2019.11.12-02 Release Notes

Bugs Fixed an issue where the Devices page was showing expired status. https://support.automox.com/help/archive-2017-2018-2019

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
Windows 10 Insider Build 19023 Released With Optional Updates Test

BleepingComputer Windows 10 Insider Build 19023 Released With Optional Updates Test Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19023 (20H1) to Insiders in the Fast ring, which will test a new "optional" update experience for Windows drivers. In a new experiment running through November 25th, 2019, PCs running 20H1 Build 18980 and newer will not automatically download and install driver updates that are labeled as “optional”. Instead users will find these drivers under the new Settings > Windows Update > Optional Updates screen shown below.

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
What color theme would you prefer for the Automox UI?

Black (current theme) White Customizable to match my company colors 0 voters

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
published in Product Updates
Intercom chat widget is down - edit: issue is resolved

Edit: It’s back up and running again. – The Intercom chat widget we use for support is having issues at the moment. Either you won’t see the Intercom icon, or if you do see it, clicking on the icon will just show spinning circles: 22%20PM376×705 28.5 KB Until we get this resolved, the best way to reach support is by emailing support@automox.com We’ll update this post when the issue has been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
Nic-Automox
Nic-AutomoxFormer Automox Employee
posted in Using Automox
Embedding Your Access Key into the Automox MSI

If you’re rolling out your Automox installation, or adding more endpoints, here’s our handy guide to embedding your access key into the MSI file using the free MSI editor that Microsoft provides, named Orca: https://support.automox.com/help/embedding-your-access-key-into-the-automox-msi Once you’ve added the key to the MSI file you can keep using it for future installations, until we release a new version of the agent. While an older version of the agent will install and automatically update to the latest version, it’s always a best practice to install from the latest agent version.

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Nic-Automox
4 years ago
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