var q windows2008patchlevelAutomated patch management for Windows Windows updates. Automated Patch Management for Windows. The popular patch management software aim at overcoming the vulnerabilities that create security weakness, corrupt critical system data or cause system unavailability. Such software vulnerabilities can be a nightmare for network managers. IT Administrators often find it tough to put together a solution without understanding how vulnerable their systems are. They look out for a patch deployment software that not only does patch deployment but also scans for network vulnerabilities, identifies missing security patches and hotfixes, applies them immediately and mitigates risk. Desktop Centrals agent based solution handles every aspect of Windows, Mac, Linux and third party application patch management. This includes system discovery identifying the required Windows updates, Mac Updates and Third Party Applications detail deploying relevant patches, hotfixes, security updates, and patch reports to make network administrators job simple. Network Managers can opt for this completely automated patch management software solution and dont have to worry about patching Windows systems ever. Desktop Centrals Patch Management solution works for both Windows Active Directory and Workgroup based networks. View retired Exam 70647, Pro Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator, information. I run a remotely hosted virtual Server with Windows 2008 Server for a client. Initially, it had 10 GB of space. During the course of a few weeks during which. You can now manage both Microsoft and Non Microsoft Patches using a single Patch Management application. Download free e book Six best practices for escaping ransomware. Refer to Securing Windows Desktops to see how you can enhance desktop security using Desktop Central. Hosted Patch Database at Manage. Engine site to assess the vulnerability status of the network. Completely automated Patch Management Solution for both physical and virtual assets. Solution from detecting the missing patcheshotfix to deploying the patches. Patch based deployment Deploy a patch to all the systems applicable. System based patch deployment Deploy all the missing patches and hotfixes for a system. Provision to test and approve patches prior to bulk deployment. Automatic handling of patch interdependencies and patch sequencing. Exhaustive reports on system vulnerabilities, patches, OS, etc. Periodic updates on the patch deployment status. Support for both Microsoft and Non Microsoft Patches. Support for anti virus definition updates for Microsoft Forefront Client Security software. Automatic System Discovery. The Desktop Central solution performs automatic discovery of Windows systems using Active Directory. Administrators can choose the systems that have to be managed using Desktop Central. The Desktop Central agents installed in the managed systems perform the actions initiated from Desktop Central server. This agent is responsible for vulnerability assessment scan and patch deployment. Online Vulnerability Database. The online vulnerability database is a portal in the Manage. Engine site. This hosts the latest vulnerability database that has been published after a thorough analysis. The site lists all available Windows updates. The Desktop Central server located at the customer site, downloads patches from this database. It  provides information required for patch scanning and installation. The Desktop Central Server located at the enterprise customer site scans the systems in the enterprise network, checks for missing and available Windows patches against the comprehensive vulnerability database, downloads and deploys missing Microsoft patches and service packs, generates reports to effectively manage the patch management process of the enterprise. Vulnerability Assessment Scan. Desktop Central scans all the systems for missing Windows patches in the operating systems as well as applications. It reports the level of vulnerability after the scan. These missing Windows patches are identified from the local vulnerability database, which is periodically synchronized with Manage. Engines external online vulnerability database. Approval of Patches. Most often the patches are deployed in a test environment before they are rolled out to the entire network. This makes the deployment error free and stable. When you have a team of system administrators, you can ensure that the patches tested by the team is directly approved for deployment, providing admins more time for other critical tasks. Patch Deployment. Desktop Central deploys the patches based on missing Microsoft patches or system vulnerabilities. When deployed, the agent applies the relevant security updates and Windows patches. The status of patch deployment is then updated the status in Desktop Central. The installation process can be scheduled from patch settings option. Patch Reports. Patch reports are available for system vulnerability level, missing Windows patches, applicable Windows patches, and task status. The reports can be exported to PDF or CSV formats. Severity Based Patch Management. Desktop Central enables administrators to create and configure severity levels for the missing patches,eliminating the need to evaluate system health and vulnerability status based on a common list of missing patches. This helps deploy patches based on severity and ensures accuracy in identifying missing patches. Automated Patch Management Solution. Automate your patch management process using Desktop Centrals automated patch deployment feature. You can now automatically deploy missing patches on the computers in your network. The tasks you can automate using the automated patch deployment feature include Scanning computers periodically to identify missing patches. Identifying and downloading the missing patches from the vendors websites. Downloading required patches and creating tasks related to patch deployment. Downloading required patches automatically and installing them on to specific computers. Automation of all the patch deployment levels mentioned above can be specified for a specific set of client systems. You can choose to have different levels of automation for different sets of client systems. The process of deploying patches automatically depends on the level of automation you choose. Microsoft Forefront Client Security Definition Updates. Anti Virus definition updates is quite crucial for enterprises that run Microsoft Forefront Client Security software to protect their networks from the attack of trojans and viruses. With malicious code on the rise, Network Administrators need to keep an eye on these frequent definition updates to avoid any possible mishaps. However, you can simplify the process using Desktop Centrals Patch Management options. Use automated patch deployment to frequently scan the systems for virus definition updates specify the action to be performed on successful completion of the scanning. Supported OS and Applications. Windows 7 Enterprise, Professional, UltimateWindows 8. Windows 8. 1. Windows 1. Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, UltimateWindows Server 2. R2Datacenter, Enterprise StandardWindows Server 2. Standard, Enterprise Web Server EditionsWindows Server 2. Standard, Web Small Business Server. EditionsWindows Server 2. Windows XP Professional. Microsoft Office 2. Microsoft Office 2. Mac 1. 0. 6. Mac 1. Mac 1. 0. 8. Mac 1. Mac 1. 0. 1. 0Internet Explorer. Windows Media Player. NET Framework. MSXMLDirect. X view complete listFree Patch Management Software. Manage Windows patches using the free edition of Desktop Central. Refer to Patch Management and Patch. Management Life Cycle for more details. Windows 2. 00. 8 Win. SXS directory growing uncontrollably, blocking server. I run a remotely hosted virtual Server with Windows 2. Server for a client. Initially, it had 1. GB of space. During the course of a few weeks during which nothing was done on the machine except normal work using a web basedt icket system, Windows began to fill up its infamous winsxs directory so much that in the end, the hard disk was full and we had to order another 5 GB. Now, three weeks later, these 5 GB have been consumed by winsxs as well, and again I cant work on the machine. Winsxs is now 8 GB big, the rest of the windows directory 5 GB. I have found various sources on the web that describe the same problem. Apparently, Windows 2. DLLs it downloads in the normal updating process. Just deleting stuff there is described as mortally dangerous as it contains vital components. I have not found any kind of tool or instructions to identify and remove those files that are no longer needed. What can I do Is this normal behaviour and if it is, how do other servers with equally limited space manage Is there something I can turn off or onOf the pre defined server roles, only File services or whatever its called in english, its a swiss server is activated. In addition, I have installed Apache, my. SQL, and Subversion. Automatic updates are activated. Edit The problem persists. Note I am aware that the Win. SXS directory consist mainly of symlinks and that users often panic looking at its size. Still, Out of 1. 5 GB of space, I have 1. MB used by programs and data, and nothing left. Im glad I can even access the damn machine. I have already freed up 1 GB of data, which was filled by the windows Windows within 2. Its like in a horror movie. What I have tried Installing SP2 which comes with compcln. There is no vsp. 1clean. SP1 has already been merged into the system. In fact, there exists no file named cln. There are no shadow copies. Shadow copies are not active. As far as I can tell, there are no system restore points active. The only server role activated is file server. The standard cleanup function right click on C drive is offering me a baffling 2 MB in trash contents and temporary internet files. Using one of the cleanup winsxs scripts around is not an option for me, they all look too shady. I cant find anything directly from Microsoft addressing this issue.