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.
[email protected] Thanks, Victor On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you have any tips or tricks for using LANDesk? Do you use the current > version 9.0 SP2? > > Leslie > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Victor Anaya > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:09 PM > To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server? > > > > 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". > > > > Regards, > > Victor A. > > > > From: Bugbear <[email protected]> > To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, January 25, 2011 2:47:16 PM > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server? > > LANDesk < Unfortunately yes > > 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. > > Just my 2 cents > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Craig Freyman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Anyone use LANDesk Patch Manager? > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jeremy Pommerening <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > --- On Mon, 1/24/11, Steven Sumichrast <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Steven Sumichrast <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server? > To: "PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, January 24, 2011, 12:46 PM > > > > 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. > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jack Daniel <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Craig Freyman <[email protected]> > > 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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pauldotcom mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > ______________________________________ > > Jack Daniel, Reluctant CISSP > > http://twitter.com/jack_daniel > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackadaniel > > http://blog.uncommonsensesecurity.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Pauldotcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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