Uninstall Bigfix

[Arabella Kochanski]

Afteruninstalling the BigFix client, you will see no obvious sign that anything has happened. If you want to verify that BigFix is removed, navigate to Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor. Check that BESClientUI does not appear in the list of processes.

This has an added benefit if you plan to re-install the client again later using the MSI installer. The MSI installer will abort if it finds ANY portion of the BES Client already installed, or a left over piece from a previous installation.

@washnware If you have a BigFix Server on Wondows OS machine, you can use the graphical interface to uninstall the client as reported into the documentation at the following link :

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@washnware As reported from the BESRemove If you remove the client you losts server configuration.

In this case it is better to open the ticket to the assistance to avoid the server corruption and/or lost your environment configuration.

It seems that there are many users who have difficulty uninstalling programs like BigFix from their systems. Some experience issues during uninstallation, whereas other encounter problems after the program is removed.

The School of Medicine is dedicated to encrypting all Stanford-owned computers used by Stanford employees who work at the school, and to encrypting all Stanford-owned or personally-owned computers and mobile devices used by Stanford employees and affiliates who use High Risk data and/or use their device on the Stanford network.

The BigFix security management tool is a small software program that enables the enterprise management of software updates and provides a central mechanism for auditing compliance with School of Medicine policies. This is critical, since a wide variety of the data used at the School of Medicine carries legal requirements for rigorous protections, and the lack of definitive proof that such protections are in place can have severe consequences. In the case of Protected Health Information, for example, HIPAA requires that proof of encryption be provided in the event a computer is lost or stolen. BigFix can provide such proof.

To support the need for auditing and rigorous data management, School of Medicine policy requires the installation of BigFix on all laptop, desktop computers and VM machines that may be used to store or access High Risk data. This includes both Stanford-owned and personally-owned computers.

BigFix must be installed on all laptops and desktops used by individuals who may access High Risk data; this includes Stanford-owned and personally-owned computers. Whether you use a Stanford- or personally-owned machine to access the hospitals' EPIC systems, it is subject to the University minimum security standards and must fully meet all security requirements. BigFix, however, should not be installed on computers owned by SHC or LPCH. See: BigFix Installation guide

BigFix, which is automatically included in the Stanford SWDE tool, is not required for devices used by individuals with NO access to High Risk data. The University requirement for devices used by these people is that they must be verifiably encrypted and another tool, VLRE, will be an alternative to SWDE that enables verification of encryption but includes more manual processes managed directly by the end user rather than provided centrally.

2. There may be times when the BigFix icon may not appear on your computer though the software is installed. In these cases you can also verify installation by looking in your computer's Applications folder.

The BigFix device dashboard provides you with up-to-date information on a specific computer's compliance status, including BigFix registration and backup and encrpyption completion. For information on the compliance status of all of your devices, see the AMIE tool: amie.stanford.edu

You can open the BigFix device dashboard by clicking the BigFix icon on your machine. NOTE: When you first install BigFix, the BigFix icon will take an hour or two to appear (of your computer being up and online).

BigFix is used to report basic system information such as the operating system version, amount of memory, software applications installed and security patches applied. We have also added some SoM-specific properties around backup status, encryption status, and information that you have provided though BigFix-generated surveys.

If you have an older computer which CANNOT be replaced (i.e.: it operates specialized research equipment or software, which can only be run from an older computer), then request a Compliance Exception. If your exception request is granted, you must then implement the resulting recommended security requirements to protect your critical processes and data.

If you attest Yes to having access to High Risk data, any personally-owned device used for Stanford work must be specifically SWDE-encrypted, which includes BigFix for acceptable encryption verification.

Once BigFix has been installed, your computer will become part of the set of devices managed by the School of Medicine's IT staff and will report on your backup status if you are using the School of Medicine CrashPlan instance. It does not, however manage your backup. You manage your own preferences in CrashPlan's configuration and can choose what personal information is or is not included in this backup.

Yes. BigFix is licensed for use by Stanford affiliates, and it permits Stanford IT staff to centrally-manage your computer. When your Stanford affiliation ends, it would be appropriate to uninstall BigFix.

The Uninstall Wizard is a quick way to create a BigFix Uninstall task with the minimal amount of information about the software to be uninstalled.We only need two pieces of information from the Windows Registry in order to generate an uninstall task.

We ran into an issue when we went to remotely install office 2019 on our Windows 10 machines, there is a program called Microsoft Access database engine 2007. We were looking to see if anyone has already had a silent uninstall for this issue.

There are options to control which sitemaps are enabled, which Post Types and archive pages (like taxonomy terms and author pages) are included, how Priority and Lastmod are calculated and a possibility to set additional robots.txt rules from within the WordPress admin.

The main advantage of this plugin over other XML Sitemap plugins is simplicity. No need to change file or folder permissions, move files or spend time tweaking difficult plugin options.

Data actively transmitted to search engines is your sitemap location and time of publication. This happens upon each post publication when at least one of the Ping options on Settings > Writing is enabled. In this case, the selected search engines are alerted of the location and updated state of your sitemap.

Done! Check your sparkling new XML Sitemap by visiting yourblogurl.tld/sitemap.xml (adapted to your domain name of course) with a browser or any online XML Sitemap validator. You might also want to check if the sitemap is listed in your yourblogurl.tld/robots.txt file.

Installed alongside WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages, XML Sitemap Feed will not create a sitemap.xml nor change robots.txt for any tag blogs. This is done deliberately because they would be full of links outside the tags blogs own domain and subsequently ignored (or worse: penalised) by Google.

On multisite, the uninstall.php can loop through all sites in the network to perform the uninstalltion process for each site. However, this does not scale for large networks so it only does a per-site uninstallation when define('XMLSF_MULTISITE_UNINSTALL', true); is explicitly set in wp-config.php.

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NOTE: If you have a server without rewrite rules, use your blog without fancy URLs (meaning, you have WordPress Permalinks set to the old default value) or have it installed in a subdirectory, then read Do I need to change my robots.txt for more instructions.

If you use a static robots.txt file in your website root, you will need to open it in a text editor. If there is already a line with Sitemap: you can just leave it like it is. But if there is no sitemap referrence there, add it (adapted to your site url) to make search engines find your XML Sitemap.

Or if you have WP installed in a subdirectory, on a server without rewrite_rules or if you do not use fancy URLs in your Permalink structure settings. In these cases, WordPress will need a little help in getting ready for XML Sitemap indexing. Read on in the WordPress section for more.

That depends on where the index.php and .htaccess of your installation reside. If they are in the root while the rest of the WP files are installed in a subdir, so the site is accessible from your domain root, you do not have to do anything. It should work out of the box.

But if the index.php is together with your wp-config.php and all other WP files in a subdir, meaning your blog is only accessible via that subdir, you need to manage your own robots.txt file in your domain root. It has to be in the root (!) and needs a line starting with Sitemap: followed by the full URL to the sitemap feed provided by XML Sitemap Feed plugin. Like:

You can also choose to notify major search engines of your new XML sitemap manually. Start with getting a Google Search Console account and submit your sitemap for the first time from there to enable tracking of sitemap downloads by Google! or head over to XML-Sitemaps.com and enter your sites sitemap URL.

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