Product Description: PolicyMaker Software Update is a true policy-based model for patching computers. The product seamlessly integrates patch management with native Windows management technologies and SUS/WSUS patch metadata and patches. PolicyMaker Software Update is a member of the award winning PolicyMaker family of Group Policy Extension products. Each software update is in fact a policy setting within Group Policy. By incorporating management tasks into the Windows Group Policy system, PolicyMaker products allow for standardization on a single methodology. This significantly reduces acquisition cost, training time and management infrastructure while increasing reliability and maintainability over scripting and utilities.
Performance: PolicyMaker Software Update leverages the native Group Policy framework and as such scales easily from the smallest to the largest Active Directory network.
Concurrent Managed Desktops/Users: No Limit
Number of Policies: No Limit
Number of Filters for targeting GPOs: 25
Key Features & Benefits:
Group Policy Baselining - Each update is a true Group Policy setting. The Group Policy Object holds your selections and represents your baseline required configuration removing the need for the process of scan-and-patch.
Bandwidth Throttling - Client downloads use BITS to limit network congestion and ensure quality of service - SSL and all ports supported.
Reliable Update Data - Patch metadata directly derived from vendor sources, including SUS.
Multi-Source Research Data - Vendor bulletins are cross-referenced with the Common Vulnerability and Exposures directory and related bulletin references are provided in the console. Detailed descriptions are provided, as is information on superseded patches and dependencies.
Third-Party/Custom Updates - Deploy custom-defined packages from any vendor
Patch Rollback - Patches that support rollback may be removed as a matter of policy.
Robust Deployment Manager - The deployment manager is a WMI event consumer that manages a queue of update information, stored as WMI data.
Highlights: PolicyMaker Software Update seamlessly integrates patch management with native Windows management technologies. PolicyMaker Software Update is a pure Group Policy-based patch management system. Each update is a policy setting within Group Policy, making targeting computers and users for software updates flexible and easy. The product integrates with native Windows management technologies and SUS/WSUS patch metadata and patches. By incorporating these existing built-in Microsoft management frameworks, as well as others such as Distributed File System, Network Load Balancing, and bandwidth throttling, PolicyMaker Software Update allows you to leverage your existing investments without loading down your network with proprietary components that require more management and security precautions. Additionally, this significantly reduces acquisition cost and training time while increasing reliability and maintainability.
End-Users: While PolicyMaker Software Update provides benefits to any organization using Microsoft’s Active Directory, it is especially beneficial to organizations looking to standardize desktop configuration and management. Customers tend to be mid-market or large enterprises and come from all industries. Customers range in size from 25 users to over 100,000 users. The primary end-users within these organizations are the Chief Security Officers and their senior security personnel.
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