Migration to new version of Symantec Patch Management datafeed

[Dmitri Gornev]

Symantec Patch Management solution will migrate to a new version of patch datafeed (7.4) after March 2024 Patch Tuesday and we encourage you to verify its functionality using Beta datafeed URL.

 

To participate in Beta:

 

In the Import Patch Data for Windows task, open the General section

Click Edit on the Import patch data from the custom location: line

Select the second radio button for Custom location and paste in this URL, https://www.solutionsam.com/imports/7_4/patch/windows/pmimport.cab

Leave the default of No Authorization and click OK

Click Save changes.

Depending on your version of OS and Patch Management solution you may get "The Alternative Location field appears to be invalid" error.

Just click "Save changes" again to retry - newer TLS version will be automatically attempted to access datafeed and the new import URL will be saved successfully.

The main focus of this exercise is the execution of the assessment and installation of updates (there are no changes to content imported on the server side). New datafeed includes changes to the assessment and deployment tools, the way how they integrate with each other and process the assessment results.

 

Please note that the following operating systems will no longer be supported with the new datafeed version:

 

Windows XP

Windows Vista

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003 R2

Windows Server 2008

 

We will provide additional notification when 7.4 datafeed will be promoted to production (it will re-use the same default URL https://www.solutionsam.com/imports/7_1/patch/windows/pmimport.cab).

Fallback 7.3 datafeed URL will be provided in parallel for a period of time.

We would like to thank you for your attention and feedback.