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Patch Tuesday, without the fire drill

November 5, 2026

Most small teams patch in one wave and hope. A three-ring rollout costs one extra day and removes most of the rollback work. Here is the schedule we recommend for fleets under 200 devices.

Why we stopped counting devices by hostname

November 3, 2026

Renamed machines and reimages turn a clean inventory into a pile of ghosts. Hashing the hardware identifier fixed it, and surfaced a license problem we had been under-reporting for a year.

Backups on the same agent as inventory

November 1, 2026

Two installers meant two upgrade paths and two sets of failures. Consolidating backup into the endpoint agent cut our install time roughly in half, at the cost of a larger binary.