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Newsletter - August 2010

Greetings from ManageEngine Desktop Central

We are happy to announce the availability of latest hotfix to Desktop Central 7 - Build 70119. Here's the complete list of enhancements & bug fixes from the previous hotfix:

Enhancements & Bug Fixes

Enhancements

Ability to authenticate Desktop Central users via Active Directory has been included.
Support for deploying software across multiple domains has been included.

Bug Fixes

When adding the license details of a software, license or invoice files added in PDF format could not be downloaded later. This issue has been fixed.
Issue in calculating the configuration target status in some specific cases has been fixed.
Issues in Power Management Configuration have been fixed.

You can download the hotfix and install as per the instructions provided there.

To download complete product, which includes these enhancements, visit our website.

Active Directory Authentication Included

Users logging into Desktop Central Client can now be authenticated via Windows Active Directory. The users will internally mapped to their domain user accounts, which makes them to use their domain logon name and password to login to Desktop Central. This helps you to secure the Desktop Central's management inteface by making use of the Active Directory's stringent password policy.

Deploying Software Across Multiple Domains Supported

Administrators will now be able to deploy software to computers across domains in a single deployment. Administrator can maintain the software in a common network share in any one domain, which will be accessed with proper credentials from computers from other domains/workgroup.

What's Cooking?

The features in our roadmap that are currently under development include:

Approval Mechanism for Automatic Uninstallation of Prohibited Software Details>>
Automating Software Deployment Details>>

Add Requirements to Product Roadmap

You can add your new feature requirements on Desktop Management to our roadmap. We will prioritize and include them in our subsequent updates. Visit our Roadmap and add your requirements.

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Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday bulletins are now supported by Desktop Central. The patch assessment team at Desktop Central has tested all the patches pertaining to 14 bulletins and have updated their online patch database. The bulletin IDs that are supported include MS10-046 to MS10-060. Synchronize the vulnerability database to get these patches installed.

Note: Some patches of bulletin MS10-060 that pertains to Microsoft Silverlight will not be supported in Desktop Central

Deployment Priority (Courtesy: MSRC Blog )

For any assistance on patching feel free to contact desktopcentral-support@manageengine.com

Happy Patching.

cheers,

Microsoft released an advance notification for their August 2010 patch Tuesday. Microsoft will release 14 security bulletins on August 10th addressing 34 vulnerabilities.

Ten of the bulletins affect Windows; of those, five are rated as Critical and five are rated as Important.
Two bulletins affect Microsoft Office; of those, once is rated Critical and the other as Important.
One bulletin, which is rated as Critical, affects both Windows and Internet Explorer.
One bulletin, which is rated as Critical, affects both Windows and Silverlight.

The Patch Assessment team at Desktop Central is getting ready for this monster patch tuesday and hoping to update these new patches to their online patch database at the earliest.

Cheers!

Microsoft, on Monday, 2nd August 2010, released an out of band security bulletin MS10-046 to address a vulnerability in the handling of shortcuts. The vulnerability affects all current versions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

The patches pertaining to this bulletin have been tested by our patch assessment team and the online patch database have been updated with these patches. You can update the patch database at your local Desktop Central installation to install these patches.

Cheers!

Greetings from ManageEngine Desktop Central

We are happy to announce the availability of latest hotfix to Desktop Central 7 - Build 70117. Here's the complete list of enhancements & bug fixes from the previous hotfix:

Enhancements & Bug Fixes

Enhancements

Hardware details of CDROM Drive, USB Controller and USB Hub will now have an additional column indicating the reason for the hardware error, if any.
Option to grant/revoke remote access to the database used by Desktop Central for users to retrieve the data for reporting purposes has been included.
Patch engine has been optimised for large networks.

Bug Fixes

Distribution Server patch replication issue has been fixed.
Issue in performing double-click actions twice on the Remote Computer when using Java Viewer has been fixed.
Num Lock key issue on the Remote Computer when accessing it using the Activex viewer has been fixed.

You can download the hotfix and install as per the instructions provided there.

To download complete product, which includes these enhancements, visit our website.

Patch Engine Optimized to Improve Performance

The Patch Engine of Desktop Central has been optimized to improve the performance by reducing the CPU usage. This will considerably reduce the load on the Server, which can be used to run any additional applications.

What's Cooking?

The features in our roadmap that are currently under development include:

Approval Mechanism for Automatic Uninstallation of Prohibited Software Details>>
Automating Software Deployment Details>>
Active Directory Authentication - Logging into Desktop Central client will be authenticated via Windows Active Directory

Add Requirements to Product Roadmap

You can add your new feature requirements on Desktop Management to our roadmap. We will prioritize and include them in our subsequent updates. Visit our Roadmap and add your requirements.

Microsoft has released 4 new security bulletins for the July 2010 edition of patch Tuesday. These 4 bulletins address 5 vulnerabilities.

Our patch assessment team has completed the testing of the following security bulletins and updated the Central Repository Server.

MS10-042, MS10-043, MS10-044, and MS10-045

Synchronize the vulnerability database in the desktop central web console under the Patch Mgmt tab to update the local database.

Deployment Priority (Courtesy: MSRC Blog )

In addition to this month patch releases, Microsoft has also re-release their MS10-024 bulletin. The patches of this re-release has also been updated in Desktop Central.

For any assistance on patching feel free to contact desktopcentral-support@manageengine.com

Happy Patching.

cheers,

Today Adobe releases a security update for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat to address the critical vulnerabilities which including CVE-2010-1297referenced in Security Advisory APSA10-01, could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Adobe recommends users of Adobe Reader 9.3.2 and earlier versions for Windows, update to Adobe Reader 9.3.3. (For Adobe Reader users on Windows, who cannot update to Adobe Reader 9.3.3, Adobe has provided the Adobe Reader 8.2.3 update.) Adobe recommends users of Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 and earlier versions for Windows update to Adobe Acrobat 9.3.3. Adobe recommends users of Adobe Acrobat 8.2.2 and earlier versions for Windows update to Adobe Acrobat 8.2.3.

Affected Software Versions :

Adobe Reader 9.3.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX
Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh

For more details APSB10-15

-Rajesh

Hi

You may encounter Java update failures with the below given two reasons.

Time out or
Error occurred while processing the configuration

What is the reason for failure?

The technical reason behind this is, the JQS (Java Quick Starter service). A process called jqs.exe will run in the background in order to allow quick start-up of Java applications. It would be loaded immediately after the Windows startup. Due to this process which is running already on the client computer, the Java update fails.

More on Java quick starter service .

How to resolve?

While deploying the Patches, you need to select 'Install during computer startup' from 'Install Options' in 'Deployment Settings'. (Install Patch Configuration -> Deployment Settings in Step 2: -> Install Options: -> Install during computer startup)

It ensures that java update starts before the JQS and hence the update won't fail.

Trust this helps.

Regards
Romanus

Microsoft has released 10 new security bulletin for the June 2010 edition of patch Tuesday. These 10 bulletins address 34 vulnerabilities.

Our patch assessment team has completed the testing of the following security bulletin and updated the Central Repository Server.

MS10-032, MS10-033, MS10-034, MS10-035, MS10-036, MS10-037, MS10-038, MS10-040, MS10-041

Synchronize the vulnerability database in the desktop central web console under the Patch Mgmt tab to update the local database.

- Rajesh

** Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-039 is not updated by Desktop Central, as the product Microsoft SharePoint is not supported by DC.

Microsoft has released 10 new security bulletin for the June 2010 edition of patch Tuesday. These 10 bulletins address 34 vulnerabilities.

As this patch Tuesday contains 10 security bulletin, our patch assessment team has planned to support the security bulletin in 3 phases. The support of security bulletin in desktop central update in each phase is listed below.

Ist Phase : MS10-032 , MS10-034, MS10-035, MS10-037, MS10-038 ( Planned for update by 9th June 17:00 GMT )

IInd Phase : MS10-033, MS10-036 ( Planned for update by 10th June )

IIIrd Phase : MS10-040, MS10-041

Note :

Microsoft SharePoint product is not supported by Desktop Central. Hence the security bulletin MS10-039 will not be supported as off now.

-Rajesh

** Central Repository Server Updated on 10th June 06:30 GMT

As per the plan, we have completed the Ist phase successfully and updated. This update includes the security bulletin MS10-036 which we have planned for second phase.

The security bulletin MS10-033 is under testing. It will get updated at the earliest. Once it is updated, we will take up the third phase.

** Central Repository Server Updated on 10th June 17:30 GMT

As said above, the security bulletin MS10-033 is updated and is available to the DC customers. Now we are working on third phase.

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