{"id":2464,"date":"2023-09-05T11:06:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2024-08-17T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T12:57:19","slug":"patch-management-for-smbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"Patch Management for SMBs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good news everyone!   Patch management can keep us safe from the majority of BadWare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news is that most patch management systems cost more than the chaos they prevent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So lets look at our no to low cost option in 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winget is a tool built into Windows 10+ that can apply OS updates and a growing list of 3rd party software. <br>-Office is notably missing from the list of 3rd parties<br>-no central control<br>-scheduling needs to be setup manually<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WinGet<strong>UI<\/strong> builds upon the CLI product, making it user friendly for us non-techies<br>-runs in the tray and notifies the user when updates are available<br>-not service based so users without Admin privilege can&#8217;t update software<br>-still no central management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your PC is missing Winget try running the following command via an Admin Powershell prompt<br>Install-Module -Name Microsoft.WinGet.Client   <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have had mixed success on servers but try the following command<br>Install-Module -Name Microsoft.WinGet.Client -force<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meziantou.net\/keeping-your-software-up-to-date-using-winget-and-powershell.htm\">https:\/\/www.meziantou.net\/keeping-your-software-up-to-date-using-winget-and-powershell.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winget when run under the system context, doesn&#8217;t know the path to the winget.exe<br>more info and possible solutions here<br><a href=\"https:\/\/call4cloud.nl\/2021\/05\/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-winget\/\">https:\/\/call4cloud.nl\/2021\/05\/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-winget\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news everyone! Patch management can keep us safe from the majority of BadWare. The bad news is that most patch management systems cost more than the chaos they prevent&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-windows10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}