I agree. That would be a pain. It seems like perhaps we could have a new
version of the agent that removes that feature until the added OS rules
are applied to the CAM/CAS.
So far we're running at 21.3% Windows XP MCE
Simon
Homer Manila wrote:
> I'm not seeing that fix as "simple", unfortunately, but that could just
> be me. :) Back-revving users' clients back to an older version seems a
> bit involved, as it will require, at least what it seems to me, a lot
> more user intervention than I'd like, what with the user having to
> uninstall the newer client first. We had no idea there was this caveat
> when we upgraded to 4.0.2 last week and forced users to download the
> newest client(at least I didn't see it in the list of open caveats), and
> now with students about to pile in TOMORROW, development of directions
> to install the older client, testing, or even creating new requirements
> for the unenforced OSes, has now become an impossibility. Any
> suggestions? What are people doing to re-force users to use the older
> client, but have already pushed out the newest one?
>
> I'm going to open a TAC right now to see if I can get some more Cisco
> eyes on this.
>
> --Homer Manila
> Network Security Administrator
> Office of Information Technology
> American University
> 202-885-2209
>
>
>
> Joyce, Todd N wrote:
>> The simple fix today is to run the 4.0.0.1 client if you are running
>> 4.0.2. CAM/CAS. The only thing you will lose is the feature to run the
>> clients from the download page.
>>
>> All the old rules should still work on the different versions of windows
>> XP.
>>
>> I have tested this against Windows XP tablet edition only.
>>
>> Make sure that you set the CAM to NOT download the latest agent updates
>> through autoupdate.
>> todd
>>
>> Todd Joyce
>> Network Services
>> Radford University - The Smart Choice
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>> (540) 831-7777
>>
>> Keep your boots and ChapStick and ice hotels.
>> Give me shorts and sandals and a thirty-blocker.
>>
>> Temperance Brennan - Monday Mourning
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Perfigo SecureSmart and CleanMachines Discussion List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon Bell
>> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:30 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: ETA on Added OS Detection
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Today (Friday Aug 11) is the infamous move-in weekend for us. I know
>> it's early for us, but I'm a little alarmed at how many XP Media Center
>> Edition PCs are out there. Over the summer I only saw 10-15%. As of this
>> email, we've only had about 280 new users login, however of those users,
>> 68 of them have had Windows XP MCE. That's almost 25% of my users... not
>> being checked for AV/Crits. If this trend continues I'll have almost 675
>> users running who knows that AV/Crits roaming the network.
>>
>> When can we expect a fix for this?
>>
>> Simon
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