To: GS IT All
Subject: October 2022 ePatching for Windows – Deadline 10/26/2022
IMPORTANT – Ongoing BigFix Issues: The DOI BigFix Team is continuing to work with the vendor HCL on resolving reliability issues with authentication into the BigFix Console and Web Reports. The Department considers the issue as “ongoing” until we are told otherwise.
Except for offices with Approved Exceptions …
The September 2022 “Ask the ISO” Call featured an OSD Deep Dive presentation, given by Tom Van Heel, the lead developer for OSD and MECM content in USGS.
Links to the slide deck and a recording of the training session are now available on the Central Join Operating System Deployment (OSD) – REVISED – USGS Technical Support Teams …
The purpose of this page is to document the Enterprise Deployments that are not covered in the ePatching Weekly and Monthly Deployment tables. This page is still under development and may not yet represent a complete picture of enterprise maintained deployments in the environment.
The Log4Shell (Log4j) situation is rapidly evolving. The purpose of this page is to provide a jump-off point to resources, with an emphasis on Bureau-wide remediation activities. Questions should be directed to GS Security Assurance.
Log4j Version 1.x Vulnerabilities: EVSS has new Nessus plugins that identify Log4j version 1.x instances as vulnerable. (Plugin IDs: 156860, 156032, 156103, 156240). …
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DOI has provisioned an internet-facing management server for clients that only have an internet connection and are not on VPN. This service will allow clients to process deployments for Windows updates and Enterprise application deployments while not on VPN. All DOI and USGS Enterprise applications have been distributed to the new server.
The DOI, in working to support USGS and other Bureaus, has agreed that the Semi-Annual Channel will be the single supported update channel of Office 365 as it is the default update channel for Office 365 ProPlus.
Currently, Office 365 has been installed in several different ways which would require different update channels. A change has been …
These instructions only apply to sites using MECM.
The DOI and USGS MECM teams develop applications that can optionally be deployed by MECM administrators at their sites. These applications reside on the primary site server and can be distributed and deployed to local sites. The following instructions explain how to distribute an application to a MECM distribution point and create …
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