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The introductory article on patch management can be found here.
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Around the beginning of August 2014, all college-owned computers will be migrated from the old K1000 5.4 to the new K1000 version 5.5, possibly receiving a newer version of the Dell KACE Agent. For a few months, 64-bit Windows computers on a KBOX patch schedule might receive application patches from a different, temporary, K1000 process, one based on K1000 scripts, not on KBOX patching. This does not affect computers running Mac OS X, only Windows x64. What you see during patching will look different, and may work a bit differently than before, but it will run at exactly the same time as the patch schedule you subscribed to (the deploy step). The applications that will be included in this process are marked with § in the list below. It is very likely that any Web browsers running at that time will be terminated without warning. ITS plans to have a better, permanent, solution in place by the end of the calendar year, if Dell KACE fixes some bugs. Here is a restricted, more technical, explanation of the temporary patching process, meant for ITS staff and student workers. |
KBOX Patch Management
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The KBOX is only for Carleton-owned computers. |
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- Adobe AIR
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Reader§
- Adobe Flash Player (on Windows, ActiveX and plugin)§
- Adobe Shockwave Player
- Some Adobe CS3-CS6 patches
- Audacity Apple iCloud (Windows, coming)
- Citrix Receiver and XenApp
- Foxit Reader (Windows, coming)
- Google Chrome Apple iTunes (Windows)
- Apple QuickTime (Windows)
- Apple Safari web browser (Windows)
- ImgBurn Audacity (Windows, coming)Apple iCloud
- Citrix Receiver
- FileZilla Client (Windows, coming)
- Apple iTunes Google Chrome (Windows)Apple QuickTime
- Google Earth (Windows)
- Apple Safari web browser Inkscape (Windows)
- Microsoft Silverlight and Remote Desktop (Mac)
- Microsoft Office (Mac)
- Mozilla Firefox (consumer version)§
- Mozilla Firefox ESR§
- Notepad++ (Windows, coming)
- Oracle Java (Java Runtime Engine, or JRE)§
- TeamViewer (Windows, coming)
- VideoLAN VLC media player (Windows)
- VMWare Fusion, Player, Workstation
- WinZip and 7-Zip (Windows)
- WireShark and WinPCap (Windows, coming)
(§ are frequently exploited, and so are considered critical)
When are patches delivered by the K1000?
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