Compliance Solutions

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If, by using the data analysis results, you determine that there are software compliance issues in your organization, you can typically resolve them by applying software patches or by upgrading the noncompliant software. You can use the SMS software distribution feature to apply these solutions. In some cases, you might need to uninstall software that cannot be brought into compliance.

To resolve product compliance issues by using software distribution

  1. Create a collection of the clients that require an update by using the compliance query that you used to detect compliance issues.

  2. Gather the updates that will resolve the compliance issues. Many software vendors place product updates on the Web. You can download these updates and distribute them to SMS clients.

  3. Use software distribution to distribute the updates to the collection that you created.

After identifying and resolving compliance issues in your organization, it is important to ensure that users migrate to compliant applications instead of continuing to use noncompliant software. You can use software metering to monitor the use of software applications that you know are noncompliant. For more information about using software metering, see Chapter 8, "Software Metering."

After resolving the compliance issues of products that are used by SMS clients, rerun the queries and reports that you created to ensure that all issues are resolved for all clients.

For more information, see the following chapters:

  • For information about collections and queries, see Chapter 4, "Managing Collections and Queries."

  • For information about software distribution, see Chapter 5, "Distributing Software."

  • For information about creating reports, see Chapter 11, "Creating Reports."

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