Deploying Updates | Trend Micro Service Central

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Trend Micro update is an upgrade and update deployment module for Trend Micro antivirus software. It simplifies the maintenance of Trend Micro software and reduces the total cost of your network’s antivirus security. Because of the number of viruses that are developed monthly, a successful virus policy depends on the use of virus pattern files and scan engine files, that can deal with the latest threats. See Configuring Updates.

Note

Trend Micro releases new versions of these downloadable update files on a regular basis.

ServerProtect update features include:

Update component selection: Trend Micro provides a rich set of anti virus utilities in ServerProtect 5.8 for updating, including newly-added Spyware pattern and other virus patterns, Damage Cleanup Engine and a Damage Cleanup Template, as well as Anti-rootkit driver.
Unattended scheduled update: You can create scheduled update tasks to update all Normal Servers while you are asleep.
Flexible file download: You can designate an Information Server to download updates from the Trend Micro update site, then have other servers obtain the updated files from it.
Centralized update deployment: You can deploy updates to servers on your network from the Management Console.
Firewall and proxy server compatibility: ServerProtect works with the majority of existing firewalls and proxy servers.
Update activity logging: ServerProtect records all update activity in a log file for future reference.
Update Roll-back option: If you encounter a problem while deploying an update, you can only roll-back the component which is most recently updated. Note that the rollback operation can only be carried out on virus patterns and Virus Scan Engine.

Updating ServerProtect is a two-step process:

Download updates from the Trend Micro update server. See Downloading Updates.
Deploy the downloaded updates to other Normal Servers on the network. See Deploying Updates.

This highly efficient approach saves download time and minimizes network bandwidth usage.

Tip

You can automate the deployment of updates for Normal Servers by creating a scheduled update task. See Creating Tasks.