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McAfee VirusScan 8.5i Patch 7

Patch 7 for McAfee VirusScan 8.5i has been released.

McAfee® Rogue System Detection 2.0 for ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO) v4.0 has been released!

McAfee announcee the release of Rogue System Detection (RSD) 2.0 today.

RSD provides real-time detection of rogue systems by means of a sensor placed on at least one system within each network broadcast segment (typically a subnet). By rapidly identifying rogue systems, administrators are empowered to significantly improve system security compliance and eliminate the potential vulnerabilities posed by rogue, non-compliant systems.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4 patch 2

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4 patch 2 is scheduled to be available on June 2.  Read the known issues prior to installing.  This update resolves 22 bugs in addition to those fixed by patch 1.

17th May Celebration in Seattle

The Norwegian Constitution Day is the National Day of Norway and is an official national holiday each year. Among Norwegians, the day is referred to simply as syttende mai (meaning May Seventeenth), Nasjonaldagen (The National Day) or Grunnlovsdagen (The Constitution Day). -Wikipedia

In Seattle there will be a celebration in Ballard. The 17th May Celebration in Seattle includes a Parade, Kid's Games, Norwegian Fjord Horses, Lunch, Dinner, and more.

Bring the kids and have a fun day!

Symantec Ghost Solutin Suite 2.5

Symantec announced Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 was released on May 4. New features include:

• Bundled WinPE 2.0 PreOS
• Both the console, and the standard tools include WinPE 2.0 in addition to PC-DOS. This greatly improves hardware compatibility.
• DeployAnywhere
• The new hardware-independent imaging feature allows a single image to be deployed to diverse hardware, and obtain the necessary drivers from a centrally managed driver database.
• Hot Imaging
• Images may be created hot, using Volume Snapshot in Windows and Logical Volume Manager in Linux.
• Secure Computer Decommission
• The Console has a task to perform the secure erase of a computer for decommissioning, or prior to re-imaging.
• Support for VMDK and V21/PQI Images
• VMDK virtual disk, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (V2I) and Symantec Deploy Center (PQI) images can be deployed directly from the Console and from Ghost.
• Better Sysprep Support
• Console contains a Sysprep Answer File Editor as well as being able to edit the raw file.
• Bundled Linux PreOS
• Linux Thinstation distro is bundled as and unmanaged PreOS.
• Native Linux versions of Tools
• Linux versions of Ghost, Gdisk, Ghconfig, Ghregedit, Omnifs.

You can read more about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite at Ghost.com

VMWare Thinstall beta

VMWare acquired Thinstall not too long ago and has a new beta available today.  The beta is named Thinstall Project North Star and add two new features:

• Application Link: allows administrators to dynamically link Thinstall packages to one another, making it possible to create separate packages for interdependent components (such as Java or .NET) and use them across multiple Thinstall packages.

• Application Sync: allows customers to execute updates to virtual applications through a secure Internet connection, increasing application portability while reducing security and patch risks to offline and out-of-network machines.

Is application virtualization going to replace the current method of deploying and managing apps in the enterprise?  I wonder where Apple will find itself in this new paradigm...