Delayed by a day, this second update of February includes the following enhancements to the Patch Publisher: Language Aware Installation The Language Aware Installation option is enabled for selection in the Package Contents of the Create Update Package Wizard. This option will be helpful in a hybrid environment that has devices with more than one language. There will be no need for you to remember which language patch needs to be deployed to which device, just selecting the Language Aware Installation option will automatically check the language of the currently installed version of a product, for which the patch is being deployed, on a device and install the same language patch. Additional Script Types Support for additional script types in the Package Contents of the Create Update Package Wizard.  You can now view and edit the installation script of a patch in the PowerShell Script and the VBScript. This gives you the flexibility to select the script type that you are comfortable with to make your desired changes to the installation script of a patch that you have chosen to publish to an endpoint management system. Import File Paths File paths are added to a patch as applicability criteria that get evaluated on the endpoints to know if the patch is applicable to be installed on that endpoint or not. The Applicability Criteria – Paths panel of the Create Update Package Wizard, automatically populates a list of file paths for a patch based on the scan results to add as applicability criteria. However, if you wish to add more paths beyond this list, you can now click on the Import Paths button to import a CSV that contains a list of file paths that you wish to add to a patch. To see the full release notes, click here. ... View more

The first SVM update of the year 2023 is live now. This update marks SVM’s entrance into the Mac Patching, plus other enhancements below: Publish Mac Packages to Microsoft Intune This update introduces the support for enabling patching of your Mac devices with Intune. This beta version allows you to publish.PKG format of Mac packages in the Vendor Patch Module view of the Patch Publisher to Microsoft Intune. This is the first of many enhancements planned for supporting Mac patching in SVM.   Flexera Package System (SPS) View Enhancements The following enhancements are added to the SPS view of the SVM Patch Publisher in this update: You can now search for SPS patches either by Product or CVE. The additional Find box allows you to search for the matching entries by plain text across the entire grid. The criticality of a Secunia Advisory is now color-coded to indicate the severity of the advisory. The Secunia Advisories (SAID) can now be clicked to see a pop-up with the advisory details like CVE, CVSS Score, affected software, etc. The Detected column now displays the number of minutes/hours/days/months of how long ago the vulnerabilities were detected in a scan.  Add Multiple Email Addresses While Suggesting Software You can now add multiple email addresses when suggesting software to be added to SVM. You may optionally include additional team members to the request when suggesting software. Upon completion of your request, an email confirmation will be sent to all email addresses specified, which can improve internal communications by reducing time spent alerting other stakeholders as to the status of software suggestion requests. Updated Process for Software Suggestions In our ongoing efforts to improve response times and increase the value of your investment, we have implemented a new backend process for managing incoming software suggestions. This is part of the continuous improvements we have been making to the software suggestion functionality over the last couple of quarters. The new process significantly improves the way we track the software suggestions thus helping us manage the requests more efficiently. Building on this work, we intend to expose estimated response times based on actual activity and backlog load to set realistic expectations for software suggestions in the future. As a reminder, software suggestion guidelines may be found here. Support for RHEL 9 scanning The SVM Single Host Agent v7.6.0.24 (scan agent) now supports scanning of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 Operating System.   To see the full release notes, click here.   ... View more

SVM On-prem R8 v7.6.1.23 is now available for download. This new version of the on-prem edition is compatible with the latest version of the Patch Publisher v7.6.843. All the recent updates made to the SVM Cloud and Patch Publisher will now be available to our SVM on-prem customers through this update. Among others, here are the important enhancements included in this new version: A new Patch Deployment Status view under the Manage Patches menu in the Patch Publisher to display the status and other details of the patches published to an endpoint management system Subscribe patches for automation in the Patch Publisher A new Patch Publisher Connections view in the web-based admin console to view and delete all the Patch Publisher connections to the SVM server Download the latest on-prem compatible Patch Publisher version from the new Download Patch Publisher view in the web console An enhanced Status column in the Software Suggestions view to display the current status of your software suggestions For the download instructions, click here. To see the full release notes, click here. ... View more

AdminStudio 2022 R2 brings lots of great MSIX support enhancements and takes a big step toward helping you maximize your investment in Azure. Now You Can Host Your AdminStudio Application Catalog on Azure SQL In an effort to help our customers leverage their investment in cloud infrastructure, you can now create and host the AdminStudio application catalog on Azure SQL. MSIX Editor Enhancements MSIX has been steadily gaining popularity as it overcomes more and more of its initial limitations. AdminStudio continues to enhance support for MSIX to enable you to smoothly migrate to MSIX from your legacy installers. While MSIX brings some new concepts and complexities, we feel it is the role of AdminStudio to make things easier to use. To that end, we are pleased to announce the following enhancements in this release of AdminStudio: Support for new PSF Fixups While some scenarios where runtime errors may occur when running as a converted MSIX package, the Package Support Framework (PSF) fixups provide a way to resolve some of the most common such failures. In this release of AdminStudio, we have simplified support for many by providing a simple and intuitive user interface to help you easily apply fixups to an MSIX package. The new fixups include:   File Not Found Fixup File Not Found fixup is applied to an application when a file is not found by the application at runtime. This fixup requires the working directory of the file, that will be automatically populated in this fixup’s configuration. Registry Fixup There are two types of Registry Fixups: Modify Access and Fake Delete. Some applications may request more permissions than they need while interacting with the Windows registry. Such requests may sometimes be denied for an application running in an MSIX container thus failing the subsequent registry actions. The Modify Access Registry Fixup allows you to modify the requested access level to a lower level to return success which otherwise would have failed. The Fake Delete Registry Fixup returns a fake success to a registry delete request made by an application to make it believe that the registry was deleted. Environment Variable Fixup The Environment Variables Fixup allows you to specify an application-specific scope environment variable to be read or modified by application in an MSIX package. Executable Arguments Fixup MSIX packages inherently do not support passing of arguments to an executable (.exe) while launching an application shortcut. To pass arguments to an executable you may apply an Executable Arguments fixup to the application. PSF Fixups Suggestions Because applications running from an MSIX package run in a virtual container, it can be prone to  runtime failures. Some failures may crash the application while some others may silently fail in the background resulting in an undesired behavior or errors. PSF fixups can resolve some of these commonly seen runtime failures, but implementing them can be challenging as you as a packager, struggle to answer the following questions: How do you know what runtime failures were encountered by an MSIX packages? which fixup must be applied to fix these runtime failures? This enhancement will help you find answers to these questions easily. The tracing capability in the MSIX Editor has been enhanced to monitor the trace logs and identify runtime failures so it can suggest fixups to resolve the failures. After tracing, recommended fixups to resolve runtime failure can be seen in the new Recommended Fixups view. Simply choose those you’d like and click “Apply Recommended Fixups” to have such added to your MSIX package. This ability to recommend fixups has been implemented for both the File Redirection and Registry fixups. Create Non-EXE applications in MSIX Applications in MSIX are akin to shortcuts in MSI. MSIX has a limitation that prevents you from creating an application that points to a non-exe file. However, in AdminStudio’s updated MSIX Editor you can create such applications (shortcuts). With this enhancement, MSIX can now support creating shortcuts for .bat, .txt, .cmd .HTML, and .docx files. Edit Visual Assets The Visual Assets view of the MSIX Editor is now editable. Visual Assets comprise of different tile sizes, application icons, package logos, splash screens and badge logo images. MSIX installed applications present themselves on a Windows machine through these visual assets, for example as tiles and/or application icon on the start menu. The Visual Assets view enables you to view, edit and generate a new set of visual assets for an MSIX package. Automate Package Feed Module Trial packages Package Feed Module gives you access to downloads, tested and validated silent command-line switches, and customization options for more than 4,000 third-party installers. Since being introduced, we have included a handful of free installers you can use for free. In this enhancement, the trial packages have been added to the Backlog tab in AdminStudio so you may subscribe to these trial packages for automation. Now you can fully experience the power of package automation in AdminStudio for the applications listed below. Chrome for Business Adobe Reader DC Notepad++ 7-Zip UltraEdit    To see full release notes, click here. ... View more

An update to SVR is released today with the following minor enhancements and a few bug fixes: Improved Advisory Search Addition of CVSS Overall Score to the email notifications To see the full release notes, please click here. ... View more

SVM Patch Publisher keeps getting better with new and enhanced capabilities. In this update of SVM, you will see the following enhancements to the SVM Patch Publisher and SVM Cloud: Subscribe Patches for Automation In the SVM Patch Publisher, you can now subscribe SPS and VPM Patches to automatically publish to a specified endpoint management system when a new version of a patch becomes available. You could choose either to always publish a new version or configure your requirements for a new version to meet for automatic publishing. Patch Deployment Status A new Patch Deployment Status view is introduced under the Manage Patches menu in the SVM Patch Publisher to display the status and other details of the patches published to an endpoint management system. Download SVM Patch Publisher A new view in the SVM Cloud web console to help you easily download the latest version of SVM Patch Publisher. To see the full release notes, please click here. ... View more

SVM On-prem R7 v7.6.1.22 is now available for download. Several valuable enhancements are added to the SVM Patch Publisher and the SVM Cloud edition in the last few updates, some of those include: A new option to suggest software in SVM Patch Publisher A Software Suggestions view in the SVM web interface that gives visibility into the status of all your software suggestion requests Inventory-based vulnerability assessment Publish patches to multiple endpoint management systems Integration with AdminStudio This new version of the SVM On-prem edition is compatible with the latest SVM Patch Publisher v7.4.797 and includes all these enhancements, bug fixes, and important security updates. For the download instructions, click here. To see the full release notes, click here. ... View more

This second update in the month of September brings to you the following valuable enhancements: Publish patches to multiple endpoint management systems: Up until now, you were able to publish SPS and VPM patches to a single endpoint management system, for example, Microsoft ConfigMgr, VMware Workspace ONE, etc configured in the SVM Patch Publisher using the Create Update Package Wizard. This update enables you to select multiple connections configured for each endpoint management system or a tenant, in the case of a cloud solution like Intune, and publish patches to all the selected connections at the same time. If your environment has more than one endpoint management system targeting different geographical locations, devices or migrating from one to the other, this capability will help you select all your systems and publish patches at once saving you time and repetitive work. QuickPatch and subscribing patches for automation also provide the ability to select connections to publish patches. Scan cloud storage solutions without triggering downloads: You can now scan files on the cloud storage solutions like OneDrive, Dropbox, etc without downloading the files on the device. The Windows and Mac scan agents will not trigger the download of files during scanning. Such files will not be seen in the scan result as those files will not be physically available on the device. To see the full release notes, please click here. ... View more

This new update to SVR adds the following enhancements: New Status column on the Software Suggestion page: A new Status column on the Software Suggestion page displays the status of your software suggestion requests. A status of Completed indicates the suggested software is added to SVR. Enhanced Product API: The Product API (/api/products/) will now return a new data column vt_id and supports a new data filter vt_id. The vt_id is an internal unique identifier assigned to each product in SVR. This value is now also shown in the user interface as "ID" in response to customer demand as shown below.     To see the full release notes, please click here.   ... View more