Re: Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server?

[Victor Anaya <anaya.victor () yahoo com>]

We are using v8.8 SP4 and are planning on upgrading next year. As far as tips or tricks it depends on what you are 
looking to do. I like the LANDesk community, it has answers for most of my questions. LANDesk also has a quarterly user 
group that can be valuable to meet other LANDesk users. They also have a small training session and from time to time 
will bring users to talk about how they used LANDesk on their jobs. Feel free to contact me directly with any 
questions. 

Anaya.victor () yahoo com

Thanks,
Victor 

On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Leslie <enlight2k () hotmail com> wrote:

> Do you have any tips or tricks for using LANDesk?  Do you use the current version 9.0 SP2?
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> Leslie
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> From: pauldotcom-bounces () mail pauldotcom com [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces () mail pauldotcom com] On Behalf Of 
> Victor Anaya
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:09 PM
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> We've been using LANDesk for about 8 years now and we love it. At the beginning we had major issues with the database 
> and other deployment issues, but now we know that most of our deployment problems were due to lack of product 
> knowledge. As we learned the product and acquired more experience with the product, we were able to take advantage of 
> its advanced features like "custom vulnerabilities".
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> Regards,
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> Victor A.
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> From: Bugbear <gbugbear () gmail com>
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> Sent: Tue, January 25, 2011 2:47:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server?
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> LANDesk < Unfortunately yes
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> Have had some major issues with it. Type of issues where you reinstalling agent and rebooting 100's of PC's
>
> When it works it works great, problem is every service pack seems to break as much as it fixes. Not what they use to 
> be, but the company has changed hands a couple of times over the past few years.
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> Just my 2 cents
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> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com> wrote:
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> Anyone use LANDesk Patch Manager?
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> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jeremy Pommerening <theaudioman () yahoo com> wrote:
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> I'm using BigFix after trying Lumension and hating it.  BigFix rocks!  At least for the moment.  IBM swallowed them 
> up so expect that it will get worse but for now it's fantastic.  You can use BES Relays for the slow links basically 
> designating a workstation at each site as the patching server for a group of computers.
>
> Jeremy Pommerening
> CISSP,GCFA,GPEN,GAWN,GCFW,
> MCSE Win2K, MCSE NT4
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> --- On Mon, 1/24/11, Steven Sumichrast <s_s () sbcglobal net> wrote:
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> From: Steven Sumichrast <s_s () sbcglobal net>
> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server?
> To: "PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List" <pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com>
> Date: Monday, January 24, 2011, 12:46 PM
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> We are using Lumension PatchLink for Linux/Windows.  I've only had to
> deal with it now for a few months, but I think the general consensus
> is we're not too thrilled with it (from a compliance standpoint).  It
> does an ok job, but we think there are probably better solutions out
> there.
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> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jack Daniel <jackadaniel () gmail com> wrote:
> > I was always a big fan of Shavlik, but it depends on your environment.
> >  Shavlik does a great job on the Windows side, but I don't think they
> > have moved into other platforms.  They do support a huge number of
> > third party apps, and they have a 14 day (I think) trial so you can
> > play with it.
> >
> > BigFix seems to be very popular with larger and more mixed
> > environments- but I've never used them myself.  Someone here must
> > have, though...
> >
> > Jack
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> >
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com> wrote:
> > > What is your favorite third party enterprise patching server? I'll need some
> > > sort of distributed model because of slow WAN links and multiple locations.
> > > I'm curious to see what you all use and why you like it.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Craig
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