Windows & MacOS

Hi All, Any Admins out there have users using Visual Studio 2022 connecting to Github Repos while on EPM? Did you guys have to do anything different to get it to work? 

A few things not mentioned in the release notes of the latest EPM Client:It might have been a mix of QuickStart Policy "flaws" or a EPM Client "bug" still unknown to me.However, I have seen a few customers out there that I have been working with who have had benefit from this.If you are running the EPM Client above 24.5.361 you can ignore this.From around EPM Client 21.x 22.x, a change happened in the EPM Client that made it look at the content of our application groups differently. It caused the EPM Client to miss reporting vital data of applications when launching. For example, a PowerShell script (*.PS1) would show reporting for powershell.exe and a command line containing the script_name.ps1. This prevents us from creating a rule for the PowerShell script that the EPM Client supports, as the metadata is for PowerShell and not the PowerShell script. This was also true for *.bat, *.com, *.vbs, and *.msi files, all of which would report the main process exe file associated with the la

The following articles were published last week. New Knowledge Base Articles: KB0021821 - PMR Database error - The database collation cannot be changed if a schema-bound object depends on it KB0021822 - Local passwords not rotating after upgrade to Endpoint Privilege Management for Mac 24.5.3 KB0021825 - Is it possible to filter by local AD workgroups in WPE? KB0021826 - EPM Cloud JIT Admin Access information and walkthrough

Hi Team, We are unable to run the CaptureConfig tool without entering administrative credentials.When launching the tool on the user's system, it opens successfully; however, upon execution, an EPM message prompt appears, and requesting the entry of admin credentials.To clarify, the user does have administrative privileges, yet the tool still requires admin credentials to run.  

Hi team,Is it possible to change the default  SQL port to a customized port in the BeyondInsight configuration tool.  

Hi Team, The EPM agent was installed manually on the endpoints using the Jamf file. The EPM console has now been upgraded to the latest Build Version 24.7, but the agents installed on the endpoints are still on the older version. If we want to upgrade the agents on all endpoints using the package manager, do we need to remove the existing agents installed manually through the Jamf file, or will the package manager upgrade and replace them automatically when we push the new package to the endpoints? Product: Endpoint Privilege management -Mac

I am curious if anyone else in the community has attempted to leverage PowerShell to bulk create xml files for application group items based on results from exporting analytics?I have recently began working towards setting up my organization with a test policy to provide more restrictive settings and exceptions and currently trying to do these in bulk through web policy editor is not very fun. I know there are likely enhancements coming in this regard, but without a tentative release date I have a mountain of work ahead of myself as the sole individual administering the application for an organization.This got me thinking more along the lines of bulk creation to import the settings into the PMC policy leveraging PowerShell and CSV exports from analytics.  Reason I bring this up, I have over 150k unique applications from 26k publishers that will eventually be in the policy in various high, medium, low, block process, with leveraging JIT as a means for unknown applications pumped through

The following articles were published last week. New Knowledge Base Articles: KB0021792 - Wrong application type displayed in EPM reports

I am interested to learn how other customers are elevating cmd.exe / PowerShell.exe to allow developers to install/test applications.

Hi,Unable to install and run the CaptureConfig Tool on the macOS endpoint. To Clarify :Added the Privilege Management application group to the policy, and the CaptureConfig app definition has been created within that group, but we still cannot install the CaptureConfig Tool on the macOS endpoint.The Capture Config tool was downloaded from PMC console. To clarify, the PMC console has been upgraded to the latest build version(24.7) and we are currently downloading the latest version of the Capture Config tool.(24.7.0.1) However, the agent still shows an old version of EPM(23.7.1.1) As observed this issue is on the mac OS version 15.0 who has upgraded OS with Sonoma to sequin The version of macOS installed on this endpoint is: macOS 15.0 

The following articles were published last week. New Knowledge Base Articles: KB0021743 - EPM-M tray icon missing after install KB0021759 - EPM Cloud error - Sorry the credentials you supplied cannot be used to login KB0021765 - EPM-W test connection error - An error occurred while making the HTTP request to https://... KB0021766 - EPM-W test connection error - There was no endpoint listening at https://... KB0021767 - EPM-W test connection error - Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS with authority KB0021772 - EPM-W test connection error - An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to https://... KB0021773 - EPM-W test connection error - The remote server returned an error: 503 Server Unavailable KB0021775 - EPM-W test connection error - The requested service, 'https://' could not be activated... KB0021776 - EPM-W test connection error - '100' is an unex

 Hi All,We got below MS edge WebView runtime related error message on one of the Windows 11 machines. It was right after a reboot which was possibly caused by another device driver. We rebooted the machine multiple times again to see if it reappears. We are working with support on this but I wanted to check if anyone else has seen this type of error .The error code seems to be indicating signature verification failure, which should not be the case. There are similar errors with other DLLs on various forums and solutions indicate an issue with either the DLL/app or MS Edge and WebView. I have general idea that pghook.dll will be injected in app processes for EPM to functionEPM agent version 24.3.349 

I was running over the documentation and could not find how to enabled the JIT Admin request, so here a short GIF of how to enable. 

EPM Windows introduced EndpointUtility.exe in versions 22.3 and higher.The utility tool helps in a variety of ways including log gathering, troubleshooting or forcing a policy update on an endpoint. This can be run both locally, or remotely.To successfully run EndpointUtility.exe pending the action, the tool should be run elevated from a CMD line. A rule can simply be added to the “(Default) Privilege Management Tools” application group within Web Policy Editor. Further details on criteria can be found in the below KB article.The more common arguments for EndpointUtility are for log gathering, performing a connection test or forcing a policy update. PGCapture:Local: C:\Program Files\Avecto\Privilege Guard Client\EndpointUtility.exe /cc <Path to folder> <Desired file name>*Remotely: Enter-PSSession -ComputerName <machine name> -Credential DOMAIN\usernameC:\Program Files\Avecto\Privilege Guard Client\EndpointUtility.exe /cc <Path to folder> <Desired file name&g

We have a network folder location that contains some applications used by a mixture of non-privileged users . Some of these install source files have .MSI while some have .EXE. When my users run it, they get filtered into the catch all app group instead of the app definition I created. I just used \\networkshare\folder1\* with no publishers, drive is network and App requires elevation (UAC). I know this is not very secure but that is the only way I know that would allow my users to run the install themselves without asking help from our deskside support. This application group by the way sits above the priority list before the catch all and is also using rule filter for those specific users only. My problem is that it does not get triggered from that definition. Has somebody got any similar definition in place that I can follow that works?

Hello All, I am curious to know how other users are going about rolling out EPM to Mac OS users who are currently admins. As an example, lets say we roll it out to 100 users with Quick start policy. Suddenly 10+ users want to install HomeBrew . I can tell them just input your password “n” number of times for now , while I work with Mac Sysadmin team to distribute the script via JAMF (not sure if they would want to have QA team test it which will add another couple weeks to it). How other EPM admins are managing it ? What if it happens with multiple new applications around same time - 5 different apps and 50+ users want it installed, like right now. Couple of things I am doing: - Get inventory of all apps across the devices that will get EPM and make sure these apps will work smoothly  - Looks for KBs to tweak the policy - Thinking of starting with discovery mode/monitoring - this will cover existing apps/settings etc that need elevated rights - thinking of 30-60 days - and then move to

Hi Team,How to upgrade Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows from version 24.6.716 to the new version 24.7.

The following articles were published last week. New Knowledge Base Articles: KB0021527 - Does Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows support ARM? KB0021682 - Package Manager unable to install EPM Client or Adapter due to time out KB0021760 - EPM-W test connection error - The remote server returned an error: 403 Forbidden KB0021763 - JIT application access with EPM-M limitation KB0021765 - EPM-W test connection error - An error occurred while making the HTTP request to https://... KB0021766 - EPM-W test connection error - There was no endpoint listening at https://... KB0021767 - EPM-W test connection error - Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS with authority KB0021772 - EPM-W test connection error - An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to https://... KB0021773 - EPM-W test connection error - The remote server returned an error: 503 Server Unavail

Hi , while doing some testing it looks like end users can easily bypass EPM agent at least on windows by using other privilege delegation tools such as Make Me Admin (which is available on Github). If it is not blocked , a user can simply become a temporary admin using Make Me Admin  and then stop the avecto service to bypass EPM protections. is there a way EPM can monitor and block addition of users to local administrator group ? (This is the method used by Make Me Admin tool) . 

Lightweight vs Comprehensive Review General Guideline Step 1: Collect the Last Review Step 2: Validate if the policy or policy assignment has changed since the last review Step 3: Validate changes in policy Step 4: Validate hygiene Step 5: Validate analytics data Step 6: Check Release Notes for QuickStart changes Step 7: Plan for remediation Additional Resources How to Conduct a Lightweight Policy ReviewContinuing on from nixi’s How to Conduct a Comprehensive Policy Review, this week we’re looking at suggestions on conducting a lightweight policy review. Lightweight policy reviews help maintain environment hygiene and ensure that updates—whether from BeyondTrust’s QuickStart recommendations or changes in the software—are accurately reflected in the policy. Lightweight vs Comprehensive ReviewFirst things first, let’s make sure a lightweight review is the best option versus the comprehensive review.The lightweight review should be sufficient if:There haven’t been large changes to organiz

Just raised a feature request for a JIT-feature. that would be per application group instead of individual app launches. https://beyondtrust-public.ideas.aha.io/ideas/T2EPM-I-1922Imagine having an entire application group for a PEN tester, or a need for the Sysinternal Suite for x amount of time, instead of per application.Let me know your thoughts and go vote.Thanks.

Just asking the community if they have come up with new or interesting ways to incorporate ChatGPT/AI with EPM? I’d love to see how it could be utilized.

Hello Team,How to set up  and configure UVM appliance in HA for Endpoint Privilege Management.

The following articles were published last week. New Knowledge Base Articles: KB0021710 - Remote PowerShell and EPM-W authentication message behavior KB0021723 - HP PC Hardware Diagnostics prompts with UAC after EPM-W message KB0021726 - Endpoint Privilege Management vs PowerBroker terminology glossary

Hey all,We’ve been looking for a way to effectively audit what privileges are used by a user or application with an elevated token from EPM in order to better scope our custom tokens.  We have enabled privilege monitoring within our policies, but it doesn’t look like that generates information (or maybe it does, but it’s not aggregated anywhere). The closest we’ve gotten is looking at the audit logs in ‘C:\ProgramData\Avecto\Privilege Guard Audit Logs\’.  This directory houses XML files which seem to contain some information about what happened when using an elevated token. Here are two samples:<AuditLog>    <Application Type="exe" FileName="c:\windows\system32\dllhost.exe" CmdLine="C:\WINDOWS\system32\DllHost.exe /Processid:{1F2E5C40-9550-11CE-99D2-00AA006E086C}" Description="COM Surrogate" FileHash="C521025C55687C1F29B1F3A3C69B3D152CE84981" Certificate="Microsoft Windows" />    <AuditRecords>        <AuditRecord Time="07/11/24 17:10:43" Type="EnablePrivilege" Pri