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Desktop Central 7

Windows Desktop Management Software

Patch Management - How To's

1. How to automate the patch deployment process?

  1. Define the Scope of Management to include the computers that you wish to manage using Desktop Central
  2. Configure the proxy server settings to download the patches from Microsoft website.
  3. Schedule Vulnerability update interval to synchronize the details of the latest patches that are made available by Microsoft.
  4. Schedule the frequency to scan the computers in the network to access the vulnerability and to deploy the relevant patches to fix them. To fully automate the patch deployment process, you need to select the "Automatically download the missing patches and deploy" option from the scan operation mode.
  5. Configure the mail server settings to be notified on the task completion.

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2. How to view the details of the latest patches and the missing patches in the computers?

  1. Define the Scope of Management to include the computers that you wish to manage using Desktop Central
  2. Configure the proxy server settings to download the patches from Microsoft website.
  3. Schedule Vulnerability update interval to synchronize the details of the latest patches that are made available by Microsoft. You can also manually synchronize the data by clicking the Sync Now link available under the Vulnerability DB Update Details of the Patch Mgmt home page.
  4. Scan the computers to identify the missing patches from Patch Mgmt --> Scan Systems page.
  5. To view the latest patches, select Patch Mgmt --> Latest Patches.
  6. To view the missing patches, select Patch Mgmt --> Missing Patches.

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3. How to detect the vulnerable systems in the network?

  1. Define the Scope of Management to include the computers that you wish to manage using Desktop Central
  2. Configure the proxy server settings to download the patches from Microsoft website.
  3. Schedule Vulnerability update interval to synchronize the details of the latest patches that are made available by Microsoft. You can also manually synchronize the data by clicking the Sync Now link available under the Vulnerability DB Update Details of the Patch Mgmt home page.
  4. Scan the computers to identify the missing patches from Patch Mgmt --> Scan Systems page.
  5. To view the health status of all the manages computers, select Patch Mgmt --> All Managed Systems.

Questions

4. How to install a security update manually?

  1. First step is to get the details of missing patches in the computers being managed as explained here.
  2. Now, you can either deploy all the missing patches in a specific system or a specific patch of all the affected systems.
  3. To install the missing patches in a specific system, select Patch Mgmt --> Highly Vulnerable/ Vulnerable Systems. This will list the details of the vulnerable systems with the details of the Applicable, Installed, and Missing patches.
  4. Click the Missing patches count to view the details of the patches. Select the patches that you wish to install and click Install Patch. This will automatically create an Install Patch configuration with all the necessary details filled. Click Deploy to install the patches.
  5. Similarly, for installing a specific patch to all the affected systems, select Patch Mgmt --> Missing Patches and then click the Missing count of a specific patch and deploy.

Questions

5. How to manually download the patches and give as input to Install Patch configuration?

  1. Download the required patches and rename the patches to <PatchID-PatchName> format.
  2. Copy the downloaded patches to the machine running Desktop Central in <Install_dir>/DesktopCentral_Server/webapps/DesktopCentral/store directory. If this directory is not there create and copy the patches.
  3. Define an Install Patch configuration and deploy the patches to the required machines.

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