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Columbus is taking time to save the configuration settings

Symptoms: The domain in the OS Deployment > Smart Deploy >Configure>change hardware settings, or change jobs a bit, normally the save takes about 50 seconds, so if we need to tweak 20 computers, it takes a long time. Solution: We have analyzed the...

raslam Flexera Dec 10, 2019

Associated Products Defect Report Error Message How To Product & Release Info Question

Columbus Database is growing rapidly

Symptoms:The database of Columbus servers is growing rapidly and taking all the space at harddisk. For example the Largest Tables are (Columbus_log.ldf + EndPoint_log.ldf).Diagnosis:The issue is related to the SQL Server, not Columbus. The SQL se...

raslam Flexera Dec 10, 2019

Associated Products Defect Report Error Message How To Product & Release Info Question

ColumbusClientUninstall.exe won't uninstall the Columbus Management Client

Symptoms: When manually executing ColumbusClientUninstall.exe no actions are performed, no information written to the Brainware.log and no feedback is given back to the user. Solution: This tool is not intended to be executed manually. Instead, pe...

chaug_1055 Flexera Nov 05, 2019

Columbus How To Uninstall

Fix broken/mistrusted MS Catalogue CAB [Solved]

Description Columbus provides two different types of updates - Microsoft updates [1] and third-party updates [2] that represent everything else. Both types of updates are provided through two different catalogs downloaded by Columbus on the server a...

RDanailov Flexera Oct 23, 2019

Columbus 7.x Endpoint Protection Error Message How To Microsoft Update Question Security Updates Update Management

Bulk-remove older Windows 10 builds from OS Deployment [C7.5+]

Question: Can a person remove already assigned old OS images linked to individual hosts during PXE boot without having to go removing their assignments and templates host by host? Answer: Yes, you can do this using these steps: Note the OS Releas...

RDanailov Flexera Oct 23, 2019

Columbus 7.5 How To Question