Patch management using Shavlik supports agentless and agents based scans. Agentless scans and deployment is preferred by most. However, in places where you can’t perform agentless scan due to restriction of opening certain ports and starting certain services, agents can … Read this post »
In November 2012, Shavlik, a VMware Company, will End-of-Life versions 7.5, 7.6 and 7.8 by disabling the ability to update the XML data and so all customers are advised to upgrade to the latest version which can be found here… Read this post »
Palo Alto Networks Research Center – 8 June 2012: A number of years ago, I read Howard Schultz’s book “Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time”. One interesting aspect of it described … Read this post »
MS have been notified of a vulnerability in Windows Update which can help the phenomenon known as ‘Flame’ spread. Windows Update is to be hardened.. This is described further in: http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/06/06/security-advisory-2718704-collision-attack-details-wu-update-rollout.aspx… Read this post »
VMware Press Release – 3 November 2011
VMware have announced the availability of VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus. Formerly, Shavlik NetChk Protect, vCenter Protect Essentials Plus, simplifies your IT management needs. It is a complete on-premise management system designed … Read this post »
MSI installers are becoming more commonly used by an increasing number of companies for their products. Troubleshooting the install of these can be a bit tricky as usually there is no log automatically produced. Only a event viewer message with … Read this post »
We are happy to share the news that we’ve got our hands on the beta of Shavlik NetChk Protect Version 8. There are many exciting change starting from the name itself, it’s now called VMware vCenter Protect Essential Plus. If … Read this post »
Running a version of Shavlik NetChk Protect before 7.5? Not receiving new XML’s or scanning data? Please upgrade as they are at the EOL. For more information please see this PDF.… Read this post »
A question that customers often ask is whether Shavlik Protect can deploy BIOS updates.
Shavlik do not currently provide BIOS updates in their standard definitions, but with a small amount of work, it is relatively easy to add this capability … Read this post »
New software vulnerabilities are discovered everyday and software vendors release security updates to keep up. Microsoft itself released 106 bulletins in 2010, third party vendor such Mozilla, Adobe Google and Java have released an impressive number of security updates. The … Read this post »