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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Content in the ESU Patching Add-on for Windows 7 site has been added:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">ESU Key Management: Synchronize Client Setting to WMI - Windows 7 SP1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">ESU Key Management: Opt-in to "Minimize WMI Usage" feature in ESU - Windows 7 SP1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">ESU Key Management: Opt-out from "Minimize WMI Usage" feature in ESU - Windows 7 SP1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Content in the ESU Patching Add-on for Windows 7 site has been modified:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Relevance for all ESU patch fixlets (and their corresponding Unentitled fixlets) has been updated to check for the appropriate ESU key year (Year 1, Year 2, etc), and
to use the ESU key list stored in _BESClient_WinESU_Keys if the endpoint has been opted-in to use the Minimize WMI client setting _BESClient_WinESU_MinimizeWMI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Reason for Update:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">* Preparation for Year 2 of Microsoft's ESU program which begins in February.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">* The WMI queries used to identify installed ESU keys to determine eligibility for ESU patches can cause higher than expected CPU utilization in certain cases. The client
setting to minimize WMI usage allows customers to "opt-in" to using a client setting to store a list of installed ESU keys so that the WMI queries can be run less often. A section will be added to the online documentation at https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/9.5/patch/Patch/Patch_ESU/c_introduction.html
before the upcoming Patch Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">BEHAVIOR OF THE SITE IS UNCHANGED UNLESS ENDPOINTS ARE OPTED-IN TO USE THE NEW FEATURE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Actions to Take:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Sync any baselines you may have created with the modified content.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Published site version:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">ESU Patching Add-on for Windows 7, version 34<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Additional links:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Application Engineering Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">BigFix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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