We had Shavlik here and just moved over to Secunia and the difference is night and day. Shavlik works and does its job but as Todd said, with Secunia you are able to do so much more. Plus the reporting in Secunia is amazing, at any given time I can find what PC’s have what installed that is out of date / out of patch.
I highly recommend it. Thanks Jim From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jay Parekh Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 8:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] 3rd party patching with SCCM Also if you haven't heard, Flexera acquired Secunia this week. Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Miller, Todd<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: ‎9/‎17/‎2015 8:01 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] 3rd party patching with SCCM Reading back over that assessment of Secunia I wrote more than a year ago, I would like to add that they have done a good job of improving the quality of their patch process since I wrote that. Many of the small modifications I formerly had to make on my own are now available in Secunia's patch creation process itself - so I have been able to take most recent patches directly into SCCM from the Secunia process. Things like "leave the quicktime icon off the desktop" and "accept Adobe's EULA and turn off auto-updates for Flash" --That kind of stuff is now checkboxes in the patch creation process - so I don't have to tear out the default patch and replace it with a customized one hardly ever. I am still pleased with Secunia, but I don't have any experience with another vendor besides roll-your-own with SCUP. ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]] on behalf of Art Flores [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 3:49 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] 3rd party patching with SCCM Howdy Folks, We are looking at 3rd party patching, and I am aware of the following products, but I would like to read over a review with pros and cons of each, Gartner has information for client management tools, but nothing with a focus on 3rd party application patching with SCCM. Attached is an email I saved from Todd Miller, this is the kind of information I was hoping to find. Has anyone come across a recent link that does a good job of comparing them? From the emails on this list, it sounds like Secunia and PatchMyPC are the most popular, is anyone using SolarWinds? PatchMyPC Shavlik SolarWinds Secunia I did find this one link below, but it is kind of old. http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2013/01/22/3rd-party-patch-management-part-1-2/ Thanks. Art ________________________________ Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. ________________________________ MiTek Holdings, Inc., 2011-2014, All Rights Reserved ________________________________ This communication (including any attachments) contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying, or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it.
