Operating System: Windows

MetaDefender IT Access enables administrators to conduct checks on Windows devices, ensuring they maintain up-to-date operating system versions and its updates.

Monitoring device without an approved operating system version

Administrators can configure MetaDefender IT Access policy to verify if device runs an "approved" specific version of the operating system.

To set this up, administrators need to:

• Navigate to Policy Management > Device Compliance > Operating System

• Check off Device is not running an approved operating system version.

• The operating system conditional will appear. There must be at least one condition for the policy to save with this requirement enabled.

• Using this condition to set the scope of the approved release version(s). Release versions might be defined differently than the OS name. For example, release version of Windows 7 is 6.1, and release version of macOS High Sierra is 10.12. Please find release information from the vendor website or contact the OS vendor directly to find that information.

  • For Windows, Administrators are able to add more advanced customization to their conditional by using the (+) . This allows the administrator to filter by edition and exclude specific builds.

• Save the policy when all changes are completed.

Detected operating system is not supported by manufacturer (EOL)

This setting will notify administrators of an operating system that is at end-of-life (EOL) deemed by the manufacturer. Ex: Windows XP and Windows Vista are versions of Windows that are no longer supported by Microsoft. They are labeled as EOL. If enabled, MetaDefender IT Access will consider an EOL device as an issue.

Update(s) have been available for X day(s) or more

MetaDefender IT Access will check client device's current Windows version and will compare it to versions that are available for updating from Microsoft. If there are updates that are available for the device and have been available past the threshold set, MetaDefender IT Access will consider this to be an issue.

This will let end users know it is time to run Windows Update to retrieve the latest update.

Device has not been rebooted in over X day(s)

MetaDefender IT Access will check to see the last time the client device was rebooted. If it surpasses this threshold, MetaDefender IT Access will consider it an issue.