Hey Everybody,
Just a quick update on the latest XML release for VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus as you will notice some new items have been released. As many of you know, vCenter Protect Essentials Plus 8.0 offers a new feature called ITScripts. This integration with Microsoft Powershell delivers powerful scripting capabilities through vCenter Protect Essentials Plus. In the XML release yesterday we did release three new script into the VMware Script Catalog.
A little about XML Announcements for those who may not be familiar. vCenter Protect Essentials Plus has regular data releases to update patch data. Typically you will …
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It is patch week once again, but before the patch announcements and Patch Tuesday webinar start to fill your week I wanted to let you know what a couple hundred of our customers have already found out. VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus 8.0 (formerly Shavlik NetChk Protect) is now available. For those of you who have not seen the new features of the latest release they are focused on making day to day IT Management easier.
Check out the ITScripts feature and integration with RDP which provide some handy and quick solutions for any …
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VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus 8.0 (formerly Shavlik NetChk Protect) has been released to Early Access. This means you can now download and install the production version directly from the download link (click here). We have had a very exciting beta and the feedback at the VMworld US and Europe shows was very positive. General Availability through our download site and additional supporting documentation and materials will be coming next week.
Feature Highlights:
Credentials Manager
ITScripts
Power Status Scan
Multi Admin support
And many more…
Also, next week we will be hosting a webinar introducing VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus. This webinar covers …
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Recently we held a poll regarding the use of scripting in managing your IT environment. Nearly 90% of respondents are using scripting today and the majority are writing and maintaining their own scripts as well as downloading and reusing existing scripts. So it comes as no surprise that the ITScripts feature in our upcoming 8.0 release is the most popular reason for users joining the beta. Beta testers currently have access to seven scripts which include:
Scripts to disable pesky update pop-ups for vendors like Apple and Adobe.
Scripts to better support our own tech support needs like collecting console and target …
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Hey All,
Well it has been an busy, but exciting week here. We are now officially VMware Employees! Whiles some of the names may change, it’s business as usual for NetChk Protect. In fact, we’re heads down developing the next version.
Let me tease you with some of the new features coming in our next release:
First, the new Operations page will allow you to launch straight into scheduling and executing operations.
New Context menus you can access from the Machine View and Scan View when you right click on a machine. From here you will be able to right click and RDP …
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One thing that I am continually surprised to hear are arguments that patching just Microsoft’s products is good enough. In my seven years at Shavlik that is typically the hurdle we face when we deal with prospects that use Microsoft’s solutions for patch management (WSUS, SMS, SCCM, etc.). Today, instead of telling you 3rd party products are a concern, why don’t we show you. On top of that, let’s do it for free with our new Shavlik Security Advisor Scan tool.
Shavlik Security Advisor is a new offering from Shavlik using our industry leading Patch Assessment engine to agentlessly assess your environment. …
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NetChk Protect 7.8 Patch 1 is now available and can be downloaded from our downloads page. Or you can download it directly by clicking here. The Patch will be released via Shavlik XML as a Patch for NetChk Protect 7.8 in the next couple of weeks, making it available to automatically scan for and deploy from the console.
The following issues have been resolved in this patch release:
Resolved issue with custom patch editor after saving news xml, where user became unable to access custom patch editor
Enhanced disable AP feature. If the …
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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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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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