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Eliminate Compliance Fatigue with SupTool #SCCM #Azure #MVPHour
For many of my clients, the work of ensuring the health and compliance of the devices in their...
Read MoreThe Patch Solution – Part 6 #PowerShell #ThePatchSolution #MVPHour
Now that we know about the great advantages that The Patch solution provides, understand the main goals of The Patch Solution, it’s time to look at how it’s configured. Keep on reading to see how easy it is to set up and get going.
Read More#PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 5
Having an email in your inbox outlining which machines in your organization that are going to be patched in the next day or two is every service owner/managers dream. So simple and proactive. The email also outlines when the machines are going to be patched and displays how many outstanding updates there are. This is a summary of what will happen in the days to come. Keep reading to see how you can dive into seeing the details of what is about to happen in your organization.
Read MorePowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 4
The previous posts on The Patch Solution have outlined the though process and goals to a patching strategy. Now it’s time to start taking that strategy and putting it into practice. Now that we have defined some of our goals (See
The Patch Solution – Part 3 post), we can start looking at how we reach those goals. In my opinion, one of the easiest goals to attain is reporting. This gives you an attainable goal which is completely measurable and trackable. Simply run a report, see where you’re at, update a few machines, run a report and see where you got to. The solutions that we try and come up with at TriCon Elite is all about being free and giving back to the community. We like to strive for secure and simple. For The Patch Solution, we opted to use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
Read MorePowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 3
So far in this blog series (See previous post: PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 2),...
Read MorePowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 2
In the previous part of this blog series (PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 1) we introduced The Patch Solution. Simple, elegant, but yet empowering! In this post, I want to talk about some of the issues I’ve seen and heard about around patching. After you understand this, you’ll have a deeper understanding of The Patch Solution.
Read MorePowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 1
Over the last few years, we here at TriCon Elite have been using what we call “The Patch Solution”. Boring name, but it also fits its purpose. Who loves deploying patches and reporting? There are many ways to patch your Windows Servers, but our slim, simple, PowerShell solution was created to solve a few key areas, for free. It has been released to the community for quite some time, but keep reading on why you should use it too!
Read MoreOverview of Patch Solution
When I decided to write PatchSolution it was to solve some very specific issues with a customer that I was working with. I am really pleased to now be able to start documenting this and sharing with the community. When looking...
Read MorePatchSolution is now available via CodePlex
I am so pleased to announce that thanks to the amazing work of Allan Rafuse we have released “PatchSolution” We have decided to make to this available for how much… Guess it…. $$$$ … Free!! Why you ask? Well...
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