Product Updates

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-10162020 Enhancements: New third-party title Viscosity available for both Windows and Mac. (10/15) Bug Fixes: The Automox installer now properly detects RHEL 7 Workstation and installs the agent. (10/16) There were so many infrastructure and backend optimizations made this week that aren’t being noted here. Happy Friday, everyone!

October Patch Tuesday updates are now available! Check out what Automox experts have to say about this month’s release and what you should consider: https://blog.automox.com/automox-experts-weigh-in-on-octobers-patch-tuesday-release

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-10092020

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-09252020 Enhancements: For CrowdStrike linked accounts: Addressed issues where the trial status was occasionally out-of-sync between CrowdStrike and Automox. (9/23) Misc. query optimizations and performance enhancements. Bug Fixes: Improved SAML Setup using Identity Provider (IDP) XML Metadata and addressed issues with Azure IDP XML content. (9/23)

Automox currently supports Windows’ WSUS server functionality, and coming soon we will also support their alternate WSUS field. This means your roaming/remote users will be able to fail over to an externally facing WSUS server. Stay tuned for a future post announcing when this will be live!

Now Live!! I am happy to announce we have released a new email template for the Automox emails. Please refer to this thread for more details: Coming Soon: Updated Email Design Reply to this post should you have any questions.

The AX engineers have been working on a couple of exciting updates. Within the coming weeks we are hoping to offer Single Sign On between the Automox application and AX Alive. What this means is you will be able to login to the community site with your console login. Existing logins will continue to be supported. Additionally, we will be releasing updated designs and improved usability on the Policy pages - starting with the Worklets. Screenshots will be posted closer to the release. Please reply if you have any questions or feedback.

blog.automox.com Patch Now: Remediate the Zerologon Vulnerability | Automox Zerologon, or CVE-2020-1472, is a critical CVSS10 vulnerability that allows malicious actors to impersonate the identity of any network computer trying to authenticate against a domain controller. Our advice, patch now... Key portion here: A vulnerability dubbed “Zerologon,” first seen in Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday security updates, is getting renewed attention due to additional context released by the security organization, Secura. CVE-2020-1472, is a critical CVSS10 vulnerability that allows a malicious threat actor on a corporate network to impersonate the identity of any network computer trying to authenticate against a domain controller, disable related Netlogon security features, and change password credentials on network domain controllers. TL;DR - if they’re on your corp network, then they can impersonate another machine to the DC and wreak h

https://support.automox.com/help/release-notes-for-week-ending-09182020 Enhancements: Additional sorting enhancements to make navigating the product better (e.g. Groups). (9/17) Bug Fixes: Resolved an issue with the KeepassXC feed importer. (9/18) Prevented 500s from being returned on a device that imported a blank SerialNumber. (9/18) Misc. internal bug fixes and infrastructure enhancements

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-09112020

Over the last few weeks we have been validating performance improvements for the Pre-Patch and Overview reports. The results have been positive, so I am happy to announce these two console reports are now running more efficiently and consistently - especially for organizations with many endpoints and/or many patches. Please reply here if you have any questions or feedback.

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-9042020

Afternoon, folks. There are no direct bug fixes or enhancements to speak of this week that affect you yet. This week’s work was all in preparation for new features, UI work, and infrastructure improvements that are releasing over the next few weeks. The team released code nearly every day this week, they closed a good deal of tasks, and they’re still kicking butt. Have a great weekend, everyone!

We just added a new knowledge base (KB) article that describes how to bulk deploy our agent using Windows Group Policy for devices that connect to company networks via VPN. https://support.automox.com/help/deploying-the-automox-agent-using-windows-gpo-for-remote-users

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-8212020Bug FixesUpdated error messages in the Edit Policy page to provide more detailed responses. (8/17) Fixes an issue where Crowdstrike invitations were expiring too quickly. Account linking invitations are now valid for seven days. (8/20)   

We at Automox wanted to share the details of an outage that we had last week by providing a Root Cause Analysis. You may have noticed on the Automox Status Page during that time and if not can view the entire posting at status.automox.com. If you are not set up to receive alerts please subscribe by clicking the button on that page. Thank you for your patience while we formalized our response. If you should have any questions about the content or need further details please log a ticket at https://support.automox.com/help. RCA August 10-11.pdf (30.2 KB) 

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-8142020 Bug Fixes Display name for the Skype is consistent across different systems. (8/12) Enhancements The Patch Only and Patch All Except policy types now have an “Automox Supported Software” checkbox when you filter the Package List, so you can filter the list down to software packages that are managed by Automox. (8/12)

https://support.automox.com/help/week-in-review-release-notes-for-week-ending-8072020 Bug Fixes Pressing Enter in the Create Organization form will create organization with name specified. (8/04) Newly created policies will now show as ‘Pending’ on affiliated devices before first evaluation. (8/05) Duplicate records for servers will no longer be created if a previously removed server is re-added for an organization. (8/07) Enhancements Groups will now appear in alphabetical order in dialog, and hierarchical and then alphabetical order in the system management page. (8/03) A new API Key management feature has been added within the Settings page that allows administrators to issue, delete, and generate new API keys for whatever purposes you need. (8/06)