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I’m new to AutoMox and would like to know how to create a worklet that I can assign to a group of machines and schedule them to reboot on a monthly basis. Is this possible and how would I go about...
Has a nice technical overview for how the platform works and a very spiffy diagram! patch.automox.com Technical-Solution-Guide.pdf 388.75 KB
Hey team, Just been having thoughts about worklets and some QoL features which got me thinking to post here and ask. We have found worklets are extremely useful for almost everything. We have been...
We get this question regularly, so I thought I’d put it on here to help people find the info. Certain of our supported 3rd party titles require that the app not be running for patches to be applied....
Does anyone else see incorrect counts in the dashboard or devices page for devices with scheduled patches? It seems the act of editing a group or policy resets the scheduled patches info of all...
We have been using custom end-user notifications with deferral options for quite a while with success. In July, a lot of employees received a notification, but with no deferral option, and their PCs...
I was reviewing some different Automox Youtube videos this morning to see if there were any good overview video I could send some of my customers looking to leverage the platform. One video I...
We just released a new video for anyone new to Automox to help you get up and running: go.automox.com Get Started with Automox Our simple-to-use patching and endpoint hardening platform is quick to...
Hello @Nic Any plans for the following? Time stamp of the last known reboot (good metric for helpdesk when troubleshooting) Restart workflow. Would like to initiate restarts though warn the user as...
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Hi all My console has gone nuts. In a span of 24 hours, the number of endpoints suddenly doubled from 500+ to 1100+. I’m seeing the same computer appearing multiple times in the console. This is also...
ZDNet Windows 10 printer mystery: More complain June Patch Tuesday is causing havoc... Windows 10 admins hit with printer issues after installing Microsoft's latest Windows security update. Windows...
Looking at https://support.automox.com/help/adding-patches-to-the-block-list-in-the-automox-console - I see there are 2 methods for blocking a KB from installing. Assuming Microsoft released a...
It would be very helpful if there was a way to see the devices associated with patches. Also I have environments where I don’t want to install a patch, but other environments that I do. For example,...
blog.automox.com June 2020 Patch Tuesday Index | Automox For the latest Patch Updates from Microsoft and third-party vendors, bookmark the Automox June 2020 Patch Tuesday Index, updated live...
Hello. I noticed that the API docs give Powershell examples using Invoke-WebRequest instead of Invoke-RestMethod. I tend to prefer the latter due to its native deserialization of json and xml...
It seems like this should be simple, but I’m having trouble figuring out the remediation code to simply copy a file I’ve uploaded to the worklet to a local directory on remote PC’s. I can see the...
For any of you, like us, that use GitBook to host your documentation, here’s the post-mortem on their outage yesterday: https://blog.gitbook.com/tech/post-mortems/06-20-gitbook-domains-blocked-by-regi...
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reddit r/techsupport - I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something... 9,028 votes and 276 comments so far on Reddit There’s some good info in there, such as this nugget: If Task Manager ever...