Custom Definitions

LANDesk custom definitions that can be imported into any LDMS or Security Suite solution.

auto_gateway installer — by jack — last modified 2008-12-22 11:49

Install Management Gateway mode automation

Broken CBA8 — by jack — last modified 2009-04-29 17:06

Detect and repair failed agents. You'll need to build an advance agent and point the patch definition to it (resetting MD5).

CD-Broker definition — by sevich — last modified 2008-04-24 09:08

see http://community.landesk.com/support/docs/DOC-2397

Detect Simple File Sharing — by jack — last modified 2008-06-23 13:23

Detect only rule to look for Simple File Sharing flag in the registry --

Disable AutoRun — by jack — last modified 2008-10-09 09:15

Prevent Windows XP from auto-running worms, malware, and evilness on portable media. Remember the days of dirty floppies?

Disable XP System Restore — by bigdaddy — last modified 2006-12-01 11:48

Turn off the XP System Restore feature

Force Wallpaper to Specific Image — by Jack Coates — last modified 2007-10-29 11:35

This will create a custom definition that will force the wallpaper to be a specific image without Active Directory.

ldms_client installer — by jack — last modified 2008-04-24 11:29

Installs the ldms_client inventory extender

Number of Times Office has Invoked the Heal Property — by Denny Cannon — last modified 2007-10-29 11:42

This was used as a custom definition to see how many times machines were invoking the heal property on Office. There was a case where something that was installed was forcing office to believe that it needed to heal. By capturing the machines that were invoking the heal property, a query to be created to see what similarities existed between the machines.

Prevent XPSP3 from killing your HPs with AMDs — by jack — last modified 2008-09-24 13:42

HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario Desktop PCs - Computer Restarts after Displaying Stop Error 0x0000007E (After Updating with Service Pack 3 for Windows XP)

Remove Java Update Scheduler from Startup — by jack — last modified 2008-10-08 15:52

Prevent Java Update from running

Restrict Access to the Control Panel — by jack — last modified 2007-09-06 14:58

Restrict Access to the Control Panel

RunOnce Registry Key Monitor — by Denny Cannon — last modified 2007-10-29 11:24

A custom definition that will monitor the RunOnce key on all windows systems. This can be used as part of a frequent scanner or just as part of the regular daily vulnerbility scan to ensure things aren't being installed and setup as a pending job after a reboot occurs. Using this will not clean up this registry, but rather just allow the administrator to monitor things that show up in this registry key on user's machines.

Set Discard Time for SDCache — by Denny Cannon — last modified 2007-10-29 11:17

A custom definition that will set the discard time for all packages sent to the sdcache folder on each client. This is used to set package discard times from something other than the defaul and for packages that weren't distributed via multicast.

Softmon Realtime Spyware Scanning OFF/ON — by Jesse McCoppin — last modified 2008-10-30 16:10

Custom Vulnerability definitions to enable or disable Softmon's "Realtime Spyware Scanning" ----- I use this instead of the built-in Security Threat definition because I want to separately control spyware scanning for fast and slow computers. -------------- Simply changes the HKLM\Software\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\WinClient\SoftwareMonitoring 'watchForSpyware' between 0 and 1