Summary WSUS server has a maximum size limit and sometimes the update package may exceed the size limit if you try something drastic such as publishing the entire MS Office in a custom package through SVM. You shouldn't do that in general. This arti...
Question: You have published Software Vulnerability Manager patches to System Center Configuration Manager and the patches had installed nicely on corporate systems. The System Center server is showing the packages' installation statistics, but the ...
Summary This article provides extended overview of the steps required to perform a swap of your WSUS Self-Signing certificate, or your CA-private code-signing certificate at WSUS, when the old one has expired and you need a new one. Instructions 1...
Good news, everyone! The Mozilla Firefox packages are now far more amazing than ever before! It all started with the policies.json file, that Mozilla appears to be pushing on people now. It is a JSON file, which contains a bunch of settings for Fire...
Question: Users of the Software Vulnerability Manager have been asking how to create a CSV report of all scanned software products on the network, including their installation paths, vendor, criticality, etc. This article teaches you how to do this ...
Question How do you create reporting only on "Insecure" or "End-Of-Life" statuses in Software Vulnerability Manager? How could you utilize your custom filters across all reporting configurations for tracking only the security statuses you are intere...
Question: What are the correct requirements to integrate SVM to WSUS for publishing third-party patches? Answer: This section guides you through the connection properties and requirements of the connection and overall integration of the Software V...
Synopsis An Update Package in Software Vulnerability Manager is a security and/or critical update patch that is built based upon a scan result for a product that was identified as vulnerable by the software. In this KB article, we provide more concre...
Oracle has decided to implement their licensing restrictions on all their Java packages and it is now hiding Oracle Java JRE/JDK downloads behind their customer login page. As a result, Flexera is no longer able to provide Out-of-the-box pre-configur...
Summary While attempting to publish a package for Notepad++ within the Flexera Package System in SVM 2019, you receive an error "Missing critical product information for creating package. (Code 5)" To resolve this, remove Package Grouping feature wit...
Summary This article explains how SVM users can find the host IP's from the database console of the Software Vulnerability Manager solution by Flexera. Workaround Login to your SVM account and navigate to Reporting > Database Access > Database conso...
Summary Disabling scanning of certain locations may help you maintain a cleaner database avoiding scanning of locations where you know and you intend to keep old software program versions and executable files that are known to be risky, but the organ...
Summary This article explains the available options to configure scanning against SQL database maintained by the SCCM server and how to limit the amount of data being fetched by SVM from the server Synopsis New Software Vulnerability Management users...
Summary SVM Patching Plugin is installed with an elevated admin account but it fails to load when a web page is refreshed. It displays a '"An error occurred while loading the SVM Plugin" related to signature checksum. Symptoms SVM Patching Plugin is ...
Summary Sometime you might encounter a failing scan of a particular host which you might need to track back in time to determine if the failures are sporadic, or permanent indicating a technical problem at this host. This article provides a quick tip...
Summary This article explains how data from the Software Vulnerability Manager solution can be exported in a CSV file for further processing and even more customized reporting options such as feeding it into PowerBI or another similar tool. As you ca...
Summary The Software Vulnerability Manager allows the creation of regular unprivileged sub-user accounts which can be allowed to see only selected amount of hosts based on the available restrictive options available in the account configuration. Syn...
Summary You are under Patching menu in SVM2018 and you attempt to connect to your WSUS/SCCM instance using the connection dialog in SVM. The SVM display connection error 0x8007007e and error message "Unable to load DLL "SusNativeCommon.dll" :: The sp...
Symptoms WSUS / System Centre states Disconnected every time when logging in to check if there are any new updates available. Clicking through the steps to connect works. Cause The user has not signed into the Internet Explorer using the "Run As Admi...
Summary Can SVM connect to multiple WSUS/SCCM Servers? Yes, you can! Discussion The connection to the WSUS, or the SUP of an actively deployed SCCM server, is user-dependent. This means that the Software Vulnerability Manager will allow multiple user...
