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Windows Client – 1.4.1.4 – Fixes to Alerting for Windows Update and Reboot Events

Changes

– Changed Microsoft Office plugin to better handle multiple installations of Office (2016, 2019, Office 365)
– Windows Update will now send a one-time alert if it was previously enabled and is now disabled
– Updated the System MAC blacklist to prevent reporting systems on VPNs as being duplicates
– Changed Flash plugin to informational status when Flash is installed and clean status when there is no Flash found
– Changes made to process that determines last boot-up time for 2003 and XP

Bug Fixes

– Fixed issue with reporting McAfee Total Protection status during boot-up
– Fixed issue to resolve Reboot Events plugin incorrectly sending a reboot alert on certain systems

Release date is January 21, 2021

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Linux Client

Linux Agent Now Available for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

The Watchman Monitoring Linux agent now installs on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Packages for both amd64 and arm64 are in our apt repository, using the same install command you already use for 22.04 and 24.04.

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Monitoring Policies: Control Plugin Alerts Fleet-Wide

Today’s dashboard update adds Monitoring Policies: a named, reusable answer to the question “how should this plugin notify us?”, applied to as many computers as you like. No agent update is required. This is a server-side dashboard feature, and nothing changes until you apply a Policy. Every computer starts with no Policy, which behaves exactly…

Dashboard

Apple Business Manager Integration Improvements

Ten days ago we connected Watchman Monitoring to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. Today’s dashboard update is the follow-up pass: the lists now show you every Mac instead of a sample, and the tables sort. Both Mac lists are paginated instead of truncating The enriched list and the “no agent installed” list each showed…

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