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Case Study: A State & Local Government addresses 3rd party patching with Patch Manager

“After SMS, we did not have an efficient or effective method of packaging and deploying third party updates.”

Challenges

Complexity in addressing compliance and audit requirements
Used Microsoft WSUS with no support for patching 3rd party software

Use Case

The State & Local Government’s IT environment comprises of:

50-250 workstations (including notebooks), and
<50 servers

Pushes out 21 – 50 patches per month with Patch Manager.

Results

Patch Manager helps:
- To test and deploy patches without affecting business/IT productivity
- Define and execute patch strategies for different user groups or computer groups
Saves 41-80 hours of patch workload each month with Patch Manager.

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