Program updates

Out of the box, GFI LANguard supports multilingual patch management for all Unicode compliant languages. Through multilingual patch management, you can download and deploy missing Microsoft product updates, discovered during a security scan, in a variety of different languages.

The security-scanning engine identifies missing Microsoft patches and service packs by referencing the ‘Microsoft Software Update files’. These files contain the latest (complete) list of product updates currently provided by Microsoft and are available in all languages supported by Microsoft products.

Use the GFI LANguard Program Update tool (in the Configuration tab), to download the latest Microsoft Software Update files in all languages currently in use on your network. This would allow the security-scanning engine to discover and report both English as well as non-English missing patches and service packs. Based on this information, you can then use the patch deployment engine to download and install the missing update files in their respective languages network wide.

The Automatically download the required Microsoft Language packs option enables you to automatically download language packs for a wide range of languages which includes (but is not limited to) English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Danish, Czech, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese/Brazilian, Russian, Swedish, Chinese, Chinese (Taiwan), Greek, and Turkish.

Information on how to manually download and deploy multilingual ‘Microsoft Update Files’ is provided further on in this chapter.

NOTE: Manual updates are required only if GFI LANguard is not configured to automatically download the required Microsoft Language packs.

6.10.1 GFI LANguard updates

The program updates tool, will allow the user to download and customize the GFI LANguard updates. The user can configure GFI LANguard, to auto download updates released by GFI to improve functionalities in GFI LANguard. These updates include also checking GFI web site for a newer build. Updates can be disabled by removing the mark from the checkbox in the Auto-download column.

6.10.2 Configure GFI LANguard Proxy settings

To manually configure proxy server settings for internet updates:

1. Click on Edit proxy settings… under common tasks

Screenshot 73 – Configuring proxy server settings

3. Select Override automatic proxy detection, and, chose one of the following options:

•	Connect directly to the Internet – Select this option when a direct internet connection is available.

•	Connect via a proxy server – Select this option when internet access is through a proxy server.

o	Update the Server name and port number using this format <server>:<port>

o	If applicable, select Proxy server requires authentication and update the User name and Password respectively.

6.10.3 Enable/Disable GFI LANguard auto updates on startup

GFI LANguard can check for the availability of software updates at every program startup. To disable/enable this feature

1. Click on the Edit program updates options…

2. In the builds updates section, select/unselect the Check for updates at application startup option accordingly.

3. Click OK to finalize your configuration.

6.10.4 Enable GFI scheduled updates

GFI LANguard scheduled updates are enabled by default. To disable/enable this feature

1. Click on the Edit program updates options…

2. Optionally: In the builds updates section, unselect the Check for updates at application startup option.

3. Click Enable scheduled updates.

4. Specify auto-updates frequency

6.10.5 Starting program updates manually

To manually start GFI LANguard program updates:

1. Click on Check for Updates…

Screenshot 74 - The Check for Updates wizard: Stage 1

2. Specify the location from where the required update files will be downloaded.

3. Optionally: Change the default download path, select Download all update files… to this path option will allow the user to provide an alternate download path to store all GFI LANguard updates.

4. Click Next to proceed with the update.

Screenshot 75 - The Check for updates Wizard: Stage 2

5. Select the updates to be downloaded and click Next.

6. Click Start to initiate the update process.

6.10.6 Product Updates Activity

GFI LANguard 9.0 maintains a comprehensive log of all updates activity. This information can be reviewed by open Dashboard tab ► Scheduled Operations ► Product Updates Activity node. This enables you to keep track of which updates were completed successfully or not.