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Patch for Windows User's Guide
BigFix Patch for Windows™ provides Fixlets for Microsoft™ security and non-security patches. Dashboards, wizards, and reports aid you in managing updates for various endpoint devices.
Overview
Patch for Windows™ creates Fixlets for the patches that Microsoft™ issues. The BigFix agent checks the registry, systems language, and other factors to determine if the patches are not installed or if an installed patch is corrupt. Notes® placed in the Fixlet® descriptions help Console Operators work around potential issues.
Other languages supported
BigFix has Fixlets sites for the different Windows language versions that it supports. If you are using the Evaluation version, you can download the Masthead of particular language sites.

Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Windows™ provides Fixlets for Microsoft™ security and non-security patches. Dashboards, wizards, and reports aid you in managing updates for various endpoint devices.
  - Overview
    Patch for Windows™ creates Fixlets for the patches that Microsoft™ issues. The BigFix agent checks the registry, systems language, and other factors to determine if the patches are not installed or if an installed patch is corrupt. Notes® placed in the Fixlet® descriptions help Console Operators work around potential issues.
    - System requirements
      BigFix supports security and non-security updates for Microsoft and third-party operating systems and applications.
    - Other languages supported
      BigFix has Fixlets sites for the different Windows language versions that it supports. If you are using the Evaluation version, you can download the Masthead of particular language sites.
    - Site subscription
      Sites are collections of Fixlet messages that are created internally by you, by HCL, or by vendors.
    - Fixlet fields
  - Patch for Windows
    You can manage Fixlets using dashboards, reports, and wizards. You can deploy, fix, and uninstall Fixlets. You can also view the breakdown of Fixlets available or needed in your deployment.
  - Installing and updating Click-to-Run products
    Install and update content for Microsoft Click-to-Run products through BigFix Patches for Windows.
  - Navigating Windows Application Update Patches in the BigFix console
    From the console, you can select the Action for the appropriate Fixlets that you want to deploy. The Action propagates across your deployment and applies patches based on the settings that you make in the Fixlet work area and the Take Action dialog.
  - Using the custom repository setting feature
  - Frequently asked questions
    Learn the answers to frequently asked questions.
- Patch for AIX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for AIX® provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all AIX endpoints.
- Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux endpoints.
- Patch for CentOS Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for CentOS Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all CentOs endpoints.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all SUSE Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Ubuntu provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Ubuntu endpoints.
- Patch for Oracle Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patches for Oracle Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Oracle Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Solaris User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints.
- Patch for HP-UX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for HP-UX provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all HP-UX endpoints.
- Patch for Mac OS X User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for Mac OS X provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Mac OS X endpoints.
- Patch for Debian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Debian provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Debian endpoints.
- Patch for VMware ESXi User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for VMware ESXi provides you unified, near real-time visibility to manage patches to all VMware ESXi endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Raspbian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Raspbian provides Fixlets that you use to manage the latest updates and service packs that Raspberry Pi releases. These Fixlets are available through the Patches for Raspbian sites.
- Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide

Other languages supported

BigFix has Fixlets sites for the different Windows language versions that it supports. If you are using the Evaluation version, you can download the Masthead of particular language sites.

In addition to English, Patch Management for Windows supports other international versions of Windows. Each language has its own Fixlet site. These languages include:

Table 1. Other languages supported by the Patch Management for Windows and Patch Management for Windows Application site
Other languages supported
Other languages supported by the Patches for Windows site	Other languages supported by the Windows Application Updates site
Brazilian Portuguese	Brazilian Portuguese
Czech	British English (Only for Mozilla Firefox)
Chinese (Simplified)	Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)	Chinese (Traditional)
Danish	Czech
Dutch	French
Finnish	German
French	Hungarian
German	Italian
Greek	Japanese
Hebrew	Korean
Hungarian	Polish
Italian	Russian
Japanese	Spanish
Korean	-
Norwegian	-
Polish	-
Russian	-
Spanish	-
Swedish	-
Turkish	-

When you purchase a Production version of BigFix for these languages, you automatically receive the corresponding version of Patch Management. Otherwise, if you are working with an Evaluation version of the program, you can download the appropriate Masthead for these sites from the HCL support website at http://support.hcltechsw.com.

Note: It is highly suggested that users install applications that have the same language version as their operating system.