Dell KACEの導入により、他の複数の製品が不要になったため、1年間で100,000ドルのコストを削減できます。
Brian Hudson氏、ISインフラストラクチャ部門A/マネージャ
Dept.of Agriculture & Food WA

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Microsoft Office patches that close Microsoft applications during the deployment

2013年4月24日

Microsoft Office patches that close Microsoft applications during the deployment

 The following patches will close the Microsoft Application during the deployment of the patch:

Microsoft recommends stopping all affected services and closing all applications that may use the affected files before installing the update.  

If the required files are being used, the application may automatically close. Auto-recovery can be used to restore open documents.


MS13-036 Security Bulletin Re-released from Microsoft

2013年4月24日

Today Microsoft released a new update to replace KB2823324, which was originally made available through MS13-036. As they previously discussed, they stopped distributing this update when they learned some customers were having issues. The new update, KB2840149, still addresses the Moderate security issue described in MS13-036, and should not cause these issues. If you have automatic updates enabled, you won’t need to take any actions. For those manually updating, they encourage you to apply this update at your earliest convenience

Source:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2013/04/23/new-update-available-for-ms13-036.aspx

In addition to the above re-release for the patch, Lumension has also released a removal script (categorized as a Software Installer) for this as well titled:

System Management - Removal Only: MS13-036 Security Update for Windows (KB2823324)

You do not need to uninstall the expired 2823324 update before applying the 2840149 update; however, Microsoft strongly recommends it. 

If you do not remove the expired update, you will retain a listing for 2823324 under installed updates so you can use the new System Management patch.


Dell KACE K3000 Mobile Management

2013年4月17日

Looking to manage mobile devices? Contemplating BYOD programs? Look no further. 

We are happy to announce the availability of the Dell KACE K3000 Mobile Management Appliance that extends proven KACE systems management capabilities to support iOS and Android based tablets and smartphones. 

We are running a special 90 day limited promotion for our existing kustomers - buy before June 11th and get 20% off on appliance and nodes! For more information about the K3000 go to bit.ly/K3000Info.


Announcing the availability of version 3.5 of the K2000!

2013年4月17日

On March 8th we released the latest upgrade of the K2000, version 3.5!  This major upgrade provides your K2000 with increased performance as well as support for the very latest including Mac OSX 10.8 and Windows 8.  We've taken your input this past year and have made some major updates including:

 

  • Fully integrating the native imaging toolkit, so that your Microsoft WIM and Apple DMG images can take full advantage of the K2000, as well as enabling you to be able to manage all your images from the K2000 console,
  • Fully-configurable offboard storage to expand your K2000's and remote sites' available space for image storage,
  • Link aggregation option to expand your appliance's bandwidth, 
  • UEFI support to allow for capture and deployment of the latest hardware,
  • Improved automated driver feed and library support,
  • And much more!

Please take your time to review the release notes first and then you can download the update!


Having a machine label with a Linux machine will not start a patching schedule

2013年4月17日

Symptoms

  • You are attempting to run a patch schedule and the phase stays in the "not scheduled" state.
  • Doing a detect and deploy to all machine and all patches
  • Your server version is on 5.4.70402 or higher

Cause

If your environment has Linux clients, and your patch schedule contains Linux machines, patching will not work. 

We have a patch that will allow you to still do detect and/or deploy schedule that contains linux clients without this problem.

NOTE:

Linux clients are not supported via patching so those clients will still not perform a detect and/or deploy. 

Workaround

You must remove the linux clients from the patching schedule. 

Click Security > Patching > Detect and Deploy patches > click the name of your schedule > Limit Run to Machines With Selected Operating Systems > Ctrl+Click the operating systems you wish to target. 


Resolution

Apply this patch:

kbox_patch_5.4.76847_K1_12331_patch_schedule.kbin

NOTE: This patch only applies to version 5.4.76847.

If you are not on this version, please update to the above version. 

For more information, see K1000 Patching Support Q1 2012