BigFix Administration - Be an 'Expert'!

Install BigFix server 9.5.13 on Windows 2012 R2 in a lab using the installation generator, then configure license, master file, and prerequisites like dotnet 3.5 and SQL 2014.

Continue the BigFix server installation, configure web reports on port 8083, create console login, run the diagnostic tool to verify components, install the client, and explore web and default reports.

Learn to subscribe additional Bigfix sites, accept a 30-day license, and enable sites to access extra fixed analysis, dashboards, and patches via web reports.

Learn how BigFix relevance, an object oriented query language, determines applicability of fixed slates and deployment targets by hardware, software, files, registry, and key values.

Learn how BigFix ActionScript performs targeted device modifications using relevance, with script types like AppleScript, shell, PowerShell, and Bash, and test them with the debugger.

BigFix success criteria define when a fix or a task reaches a successful status after deployment, using relevance, action script, and optional custom relevance.

Explore how BigFix sites organize content through master action, external, custom, and operator sites, each with its own computer subscriptions and gather processes, for targeted patches.

Explore the fixlet debugger in BigFix, test relevancies with the Q&A tab, and switch to command line or full mode to run and evaluate queries efficiently.

Learn to create a fixlet in BigFix, configure relevance and ActionScript, install Seven Zip via MSI, manage registry checks, and handle pending restarts and deployment logs.

Create a Firefox fixlet in BigFix to perform a silent MSI install, verify with uninstall registry and display version, and deploy via lab site using prefetch with sha1 and sha256.

Explore Bigfix administration concepts, compare fixed lists and tasks, and learn how relevance and action scripts drive patch deployment while understanding content delivery, gather, relays, and the fix debugger.

Explore fixlets and tasks in BigFix, mastering relevance, requirements, and success criteria. Learn to create actions with run and run hidden, batch or PowerShell scripts, baselines, and content server basics.

Explore how baselines orchestrate multiple fixlets and actions in BigFix, using relevance to declare applicability and success criteria, and test with the Fixlet Debugger.

BigFix uses sites as boundaries to restrict content evaluation to specific areas, including master action, external, custom, and operator sites, and uses gather to synchronize external content and site versions.

Explore retrieved properties and analysis in BigFix administration, showing how to fetch data from systems via the retrieve properties bar, manage properties with relevance, and restrict evaluation.

Explore relevance and ActionScript as success criteria, implement baselines for consistent patches, and use retrieve properties to analyze systems across master, external, custom, and operator sites.

Learn how BigFix defines computer groups, create manual groups by selecting devices, and build automatic groups using relevances and retrieve properties, including site-specific evaluation and automatic enrollment.

Enable session relevance and activate the debug option with ctrl+alt+shift+d to evaluate contents; use the presentation debugger to view results, filter computer groups in web reports.

Learn to build a custom fixlet in BigFix to deploy seven zip version 19.0 via a Compliance Management site, using prefetch, sha1/sha256, and action scripts.

Create a fixlet to deploy a PowerShell script by wrapping it in an action script, writing a .ps1 file, and executing with a bypassed execution policy.

Explore action parameters in BigFix by navigating target and execution tabs, selecting devices, applying dynamic relevance, and scheduling with constraints, retry, and reapply options.

Explore Bigfix action parameters, including targets via select devices, dynamically targeting by property, and enter device names, and learn to configure execution constraints, behavior, retries, reapply, downloads, and user scope.

Explore how BigFix action parameters manage messages, offers, deadlines, and restarts for endpoint patching, including display prompts and user acceptance, with runtime adjustable applicability and presets.

Lock specific actions with action locks to prevent restarts and messages during deployment. Apply this setting to fixed runs, tasks, or baselines to keep options grayed out.

BigFix wizards guide you through deploying software like seven zip with a step-by-step wizard, automatically generating fixlets, prefetching files, and OS-specific relevance and action scripts.

Create a single BigFix baseline for all servers, including production and non-production groups, select patches by CVSS severity, add to monthly baseline, and enable restart and client performance fixes.