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Looking for feedback on what the community is using for pre-patch or pre-worklet deployment testing. We currently automate medium and critical patching which has been worming fine, however I would...
https://www.reddit.com/r/usefulscripts/ Lots of handy stuff in there, and useful for anyone creating worklets. Anyone else have any good script repositories that they use (besides Stack Exchange, of...
We have separate groups and policies for each of our main linux distributions. The policies are a manual approval policy so we can strictly control and report on what servers are patched with what...
Does anyone know how to modify permissions to install a third party app on Catalina? I have been trying to remotely install an application like ITarian Remote Control or Chrome Remote Desktop however...
We just added in another Discourse (our community platform) plugin. This one provides tooltip previews of topics. Just hover your cursor over a topic subject line and it will pop up a preview with...
Since this is Friday the 13th, it’s especially important to not touch anything Are you on the ROF bandwagon?
Now that we have the Who’s Online indicator, it’s reminding me of how many people haven’t yet uploaded an avatar picture. To be entered in this contest, make sure you have an avatar uploaded and post...
Several servers stuck on a reboot cycle after Windows Update last night (Tuesday - Wednesday). This appears to be a combination of 2019-12 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 for...
This one you have to work here to acquire, so start applying! Our model is @DanK doing his best Blue Steel IMG_94193024×4032 2.54 MB IMG_80743024×4032 2.68 MB IMG_96793024×4032 2.69 MB...
Patch Tuesday is here! Celebrate by reading up on what’s new today in the patch world: blog.automox.com December 2019 Patch Tuesday Index For the latest Patch Updates from Microsoft and third-party...
I’ve enabled the reply by email feature, which means you can now reply directly to notification emails, either to reply to a topic or a private message. When you click the reply in your email client,...
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:
Windows 7 is going end of life on Jan 14, 2020, so you’ve got a little over a month to upgrade those last few machines in your company. Automox will continue to patch your Windows 7 third party...
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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,...
We volunteer with There With Care about once a month. This month we went to their HQ and prepared cleaning supply bags for families in need: IMG_33154032×3024 1.84 MB We got a tour of the facility...
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...
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,...
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.
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...