When Shavlik began conversations with Spiceworks regarding partnering and integrating our technology into their community I was asked by Marketing to familiarize myself with their community and what it has to offer. The functionality they offer free of charge is great. Their Dashboard has many interesting widgets. Even one for Shavlik showing patch releases and Product Blog postings. They have some interesting Inventory features and HelpDesk options built into the site as well.
What I have found most valuable on Spiceworks is the rest of the Community. It really started with my spice level. Participation in Spiceworks is rated …
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Shavlik is pleased to announce that NetChk Protect 7.8 is now available for download. There has been a tremendous buzz in our community and beyond regarding some of the features we are releasing in NetChk Protect 7.8. The biggest is the feature set around VMware. If you are a VMware user and rely on VUM this will be something you would want to take a look at. VUM is moving away from Guest OS and application patching. That means you will need something to replace this functionality.
VM Enhancements
Patching VMware templates
Disable networking while deploying to offline virtual machines
Optional pre-deployment and …
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Starting in May 2011, Shavlik will begin to enforce our existing end-of-life (EOL) policies for Shavlik NetChk Protect by disabling the ability to update the XML data on legacy/EOL’d versions of the product. This means the product versions affected will no longer receive data updates and will be locked at the XML data set that it received last. The reason for this new process is to clean up old versions of the product that are no longer supported and thereby reduce support issues for our customers and reduce turn-around time for support cases. …
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Yesterday evening our Development, Data, and IT teams finalized preparations for the launch of NetChk Protect 7.8. I’m excited to say that this morning we sent notifications to nearly 200 Shavlik Customers inviting them to join the Early Access Release for NetChk Protect 7.8. General Availability will be announced on March 15th, at which time all Shavlik Customers will have access to the new build.
There are many new features coming in this release, but most notable are the new virtulization features around VMware Hosted Machines. We have had very positive feedback from customers participating in the Beta and getting sneak peek demonstrations of …
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If you have not already heard, Shavlik has released a new version of IT.Shavlik that includes our latest engine
enhancements. (For all you NetChk Protect users you are getting the new engine in NetChk Protect 7.8.)
This includes archive file support. Along with support for more products we are finally going to wave
goodbye to painful support issues introduced by Apple installers back in Apple iTunes 9 and Apple QuickTime
7.6.4. For more details on the issue you can read up on a previous post regarding the changes Apple made to
their installers. I am going to walk you …
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If you are interested in any of the new features contact us at Beta@Shavlik.com to join the Beta and try it out before anyone else!
Chris Goettl
Product Owner
Shavlik Technologies
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NetChk Protect 7.8 is nearing Beta. We have a good list of participants started already, but there is room for more. Requests will be on a first come first serverd basis. If you would like to participate please contact us at Beta@Shavlik.com. This release boasts many new features, but there are a couple in particular that I know people are interested in.
Agent SP Deployment: Now you can approve SPs and allow the agent to deploy them in a more automated fashion.
VM features: Template support, snapshotting, state aware scan and deployment to on and offline VMs.
Archive File Support: This will …
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Microsoft announced today a change in the way they will be handling vulnerability disclosures with the Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) program. This is a very interesting article.
Microsoft is coming out and saying the way vendors and security researchers are handling vulnerability disclosures is just not working and is in need of a major overhaul. I wholeheartedly agree with this. There has been too much finger pointing between vendors and security researchers. Microsoft couldn’t have said it better:
Responsibility is still imperative, but it is a shared responsibility across the community of security researchers, security product providers and other software …
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We just released a new version of IT.Shavlik.com as it has moved from beta to General Availability.
In this release, we have made some key enhancements to this offering:
Fix IT: You now have the ability to patch
Power Savings Calculator: A nifty little tool to show you how much energy and money you can save by powering off computers nights and weekends
Improved Application Performance
IT.Shavlik.com is free to try for up to 10 machines. Head on over to IT.Shavlik.com and give it a try.
- Jason Miller
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It has been quite a while since I have blogged and I am finally getting some free time to get back to it. Today, we announced our new SCUPdates offering. We will be providing third party software updates (non-Microsoft) data files for the System Center Updates Publisher for SCCM. SCCM users will now be able to easily patch non-Microsoft products without having to create their own updates.
The SCUPdates offering is a data file. There are no Shavlik products that need to be installed on your servers or workstations. If you are a SCCM user, you can keep your same environment …
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