Summary Reports in Software Vulnerability Manager are not getting generated and the status always stays "In Progress". Cause Almost always the problems is caused by a problem with the reporting cronjob. SVM On-Prem Edition users will be able to tro...
Summary Windows Server 2012 requires the publishing user to be a local administrator which causes a failure to sign error on users without this privilege. This article provides alternative methods to solve this problem. Symptoms You may find that som...
Summary This article shows how to configure quickly the password recovery settings for your Software Vulnerability Manager account. Unless it is a test sub-account, Flexera recommends this configuration to be done as early as possible in the process ...
Summary Use this article to move the contents of WSUS; usually needed for data migration or fixing a broken content store. Symptoms When the ..\UpdatesPackages folder of WSUS is moved without using the WsusUtil.exe tool e.g. when enabling SSL on WS...
With the use of the Software Vulnerability Manager over time, the number of packages created in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) can begin to take up valuable disc space on the server that is facilitating the WSUS role. Simply declining and dele...
Summary This article is a deeper-dive guide to troubleshooting problems with publishing Flexera SPS packages to Windows Server Update Services that can also be installed in configuration with System Center Configuration Manager as a "Software Update ...
Summary Starting with Windows 10 and higher Operating Systems, Microsoft decided to decrease a load of Windows by changing how the default log file of Windows Update should be written and reviewed. On the newer systems Microsoft requires you to issue...
Summary Why is the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score implied rating through the CVSS score system that high (or low) when compared to the criticality rating assigned by Secunia Research? Synopsis The Common Vulnerability Scoring System...
Summary When the WSUS Server and WSUS console are not on the same Patch Level and not on the same WSUS server version, an error message for version mismatch is displayed and publishing of packages fails. This is caused by a known incompatibility of d...
Summary Sometimes when deploying an Update Package aiming to patch your active Insecure/EOL programs, your WSUS/SCCM takes it further and applies your update as a brand new installation on machines that were not intended to install it. This article e...
Summary When publishing a package from the Software Vulnerability Manager, the following error appears: "Failed to publish package - Code: -2147024809 - Unable to find database configuration value" Symptoms The related issue is a Microsoft WSUS API i...
Summary This article describes the general steps that can be taken to troubleshoot a package that was published by the Software Vulnerability Manager and its Flexera Package System where the package was provided as silently installable out-of-the-box...
Summary While attempting publishing of a Software Vulnerability Manager security patch to your deployment server, The package publishing process consumes an excessive amount of time, fails, and returns an error Code: -2146232060. Symptoms Cause Thi...
Summary This article teaches you how to read and work with the public member functions and attributes provided in the Flexera Software Package System of the Software Vulnerability Manager. This information is essential to understand how to script you...
Summary This guide provides a solution if you receive an error message 0x800b0109 when deploying third-party updates created by the Flexera Software Vulnerability Manager. Symptoms You receive an error 0x800b0109 when installing any third party upda...
Summary When deploying an update package for Adobe Reader the package fails to install with error code 1638. Symptoms When an Adobe Reader update package is deployed the installation fails. Adobe Reader is not updated to the latest secure versionThe ...
Summary Certificate error with Software Vulnerability Manager dll files on Windows Server 2012 R2 files resulting in an inability to load the WSUS configuration interface. Symptoms The dll files cannot be loaded when accessing the SVM/Patching/Config...
Summary The Software Vulnerability Manager can scan the SQL database of active SCCM servers and acquire nicely the collected by the Software Inventory capability of CCM program data from each system. This program metadata is then being analyzed by SV...
Summary "CreateDirectory Failed" error is a generic error that may be caused by multiple scenarios. Such a scenario can be moving the default for WSUS \UpdateServicesPackages\ directory physically to another drive or server without using WsusUtil.exe...
Summary This article will help you resolve publishing errors with particular error code 2147942593. Symptoms This error usually appears when there is no signing certificate available on WSUS server certificate stores. Resolution Login to your WSUS s...
