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[caption id="attachment_635" align="alignnone" width="640"] Now = already EOL, Soon = within the next 6 months, Later = by the end of the year[/caption] Windows 235 now: 87 Win 7, 17 Win2008, the rest are Win10 up to 20H1/2004, and a...

As part of the Endpoint Management Cleanup project, OIT Device Engineering has published the list of Jamf Pro Extension Attributes for review: https://wiki.duke.edu/display/dukeendpoints/Jamf+Pro+Extension+Attribute+Audit+-+March+2022 As of March 2022, this is the COMPLETE list of Jamf Pro Extension Attributes along with the...

From Apple Systems Engineer Dave Andersen: Thanks again to all of you for your participation in last week's Apple IT Update sessions. I appreciate the opportunity to visit with the Duke end point management team. As mentioned, below please find...

It has come to our attention that macOS 11.0 apparently has a bug in the new Network Extensions framework that is causing kernel panics in applications that use this feature, including CrowdStrike Falcon and Cisco AnyConnect, among others. The bug...

All, While the presence of Windows 10 Pro variants on campus is low, it’s not zero. With that said, the various non-Enterprise flavors of Windows 10 1809 are going End-of-Life *next week* on November 10, 2020 (1). This is already...

The security certificate currently in use by the Dukeblue wireless network expires on May 30, 2020. A new Duke-signed certificate will be put in its place on May 20, 2020. Computers must have a Duke root certificate authority added to...

As mentioned in the last Endpoint Management Meeting, an officially licensed version of Malwarebytes is now available for use. The Malwarebytes Incident Response product is a different experience than the freely-downloadable home-use product, but we are already scanning and cleaning...

With only one week until Microsoft releases patches that are *not* freely available to Windows 7/2008/R2 devices, there are still plenty of managed devices running these operating systems at Duke. As seen by Planisphere in the last 24 hours, there...

(tl;dr: Windows 7/2008/R2 quarantines delayed to February 11, 2020. Pre-existing EOL OS quarantines to start July 31, 2020. We still have a lot of work ahead.) Instead of the previously announced date of January 30, 2020, quarantines of Windows 7/2008/R2...

Due to many recent e-mails and discussions, we would like to address some questions and confusion about endpoint quarantines and the upcoming end-of-support date for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. Quarantines for lack of endpoint...