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During our current implementation, we ran into an issue where there were Service Stack updates required on some systems before they could accurately report outstanding patches/apply patches. An...
Fortunately it’s been fairly smooth for us, thanks to the great work of our sysadmin @Mark-AX. He made sure that we had everything we needed with our VPN setups, and Zoom licenses. Thankfully we were...
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I am wanting to build out a detailed Splunk Dashboard. Is there a way in the API to get a list or count of devices needing a patch based on severity? Like showing all the machines with Critical...
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Anyone else battling this fun and really poorly timed issue at the movement? How are you handling? Anyone throw together a worklet for broad deployment? Are you patching manually on an as-needed...
Hi All, Good Day. Background: These questions are coming from a server point of view. We are attempting to build some automation that determines when a given policy has been completed for a given...
We’ll soon be releasing some improvements for the new search filters on the Devices page. We’re adding in searching for Tags as well as more detailed options for filtering by Operating System. Look...
The main search capability we used on the device page was taken away? There is a ton of filterable options but searching by tag was super easy! And now its gone…unless I’m missing something?
As more companies are closing offices and asking employees to work remotely in response to the spread of COVID-19, we at Automox want to do our part to help everyone stay secure. Starting now,...
So say you schedule something for the 5th Saturday of a month and there is no 5th Saturday of the month. Does the policy just kick off on the 4th Saturday then?
The outbreak is hitting pretty wild levels now worldwide. I just want to start a discussion about how you or your organization are dealing with the outbreak from both a personal and professional...
You might see that even if Dropbox has been shutdown, the app might relaunch after an update. This is a vendor behavior we cannot control or change. If Dropbox is open during the patch, Automox will...
While attempting to implement Automox on distant systems (without an application deployment agent already on the individual systems), I was presented with a problem: How do I get Automox installed...
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We have a new KB article that lets you know which 3rd party apps need a restart to complete patching and which don’t: https://support.automox.com/help/third-party-patching-best-practices In general,...
If I am patching the same applications on the same schedule for Win and Mac devices, is there any need to separate them into two separate Groups? Similarly, if I have mixed Win and Mac devices into a...
general question (as a 👶 👶 new user 👶 👶 to automox): KB4535996 (OS Builds 18362.693 and 18363.693) appears to be available to genpop (as early as feb 27, 2020, according to...
I am looking at building out some automation in presenting patching schedules and alerting the team that an upcoming patching window is approaching. In the API I know I get get a policies settings...
How are folks handling updates for new PC deployments? At the moment we’re leveraging MDT with a classic gold image and some task sequences. One of these task sequences is to check into WSUS and...