Dameware service stopped...

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I manage a large number of windows machines on several different networks at
different locations. I've got hardware VPN access setup to all of them. One
of the tools I use to do a lot of my work is "Dameware".

The issue I'm running into here is windows defender picks dameware up as
some kind of trojan or something and doesn't allow the dameware service to
start correctly. I'm looking for some type of solution I could use remotely
to make defender allow the dameware service to start.

Going around to each physical machine and doing something manually is not
really a logical solution for me. The handy part about dameware is all you
need is an ip, username, and password of a machine to get it installed and
running.

If there isn't a remote solution how would I go about doing this manually on
each machine? Implying, configuring defender to allow dameware. I could
program some software hack that will automate the user input if I have to and
do my own deployment of that. Thats a hack job though I hope to find
something better.

-Kyle
 
Have you ever heard the statement, "You do not put beta software on a
production machine - a machine you can not afford to be without"?

If a future update craps out Windows Defender, you will have dozens
(hundreds?) of machines that you may have to spend many hours upon repairing
or rebuilding.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
The question was more for the near feature such as when defender is released.
Currently its only on a couple machines ... machines I feel it alright to be
on.

Any other advice?


-Kyle
 
Richard said:
Have you ever heard the statement, "You do not put beta software on a
production machine - a machine you can not afford to be without"?
Click to expand...


LOL .... they will try though.
 
Microsoft has announced that there will be an ADM template for Windows
Defender by release time.

However, I've seen a Microsoft post that states that this will be more along
the lines of troubleshooting information, rather than full management.

For a fully managed anti-spyware solution, this is Microsoft's offering:

http://www.microsoft.com/clientprotection



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Bill, thanks for your response. I hadn't heard about that product yet. I'm
not sure it'll exactly meet my needs though because part of my job would
include going onto peoples personal pcs (typically laptops) that they own
themselves. It wouldn't really be logical to assume we can hook them up with
the same software.
 
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