We released a new version of our Faronics AV for Core, DFE, and Deep Freeze Cloud over the past couple of weeks. In addition to bug fixes, we've addressed a very important issue that is worth noting; 

This update addresses an issue where the Anti-Virus definitions will cease to update on December 31, 2019. Please ensure you update to the latest available version.

Faronics has been made aware that some customers running Windows Defender and Deep Freeze are experiencing issues with Windows Defender blocking portions of the Deep Freeze product. This can present as a number of different issues including maintenance tasks not running and the client machines not reporting or being controllable through the Enterprise Console.

If you are experiencing this issue please reach out to the support team to log a case with us. 

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Faronics is aware of an issue impacting our Cloud Sync service in the Deep Freeze Cloud platform. Our operations and development teams are working on this issue and will be getting a fix in place as soon as possible. This issue is limited to the customers attempting to authenticate with Google Drive.

At this time they have not shared a ETA for a resolution but we will update everybody as we get more information back.

Faronics is happy to announce the release of Deep Freeze Enterprise 8.6. This release includes a number of fixes and improvements all listed here in the release notes;

https://www.faronics.com/document-library/document/deep-freeze-enterprise-release-notes

One thing to note is that we are officially dropping support for Windows XP, and for Windows Server 2003

We are happy to announce the release of Deep Freeze Mac 7.2, this release has a number of enhancements including support for macOS Catalina.

Along with support for Catalina we also have the following additions to the product;

• Maintenance Schedules - create maintenance schedules where you can perform Apple software updates, run a script or any other maintenance required. Optionally warn users prior to a maintenance period, lock the keyboard and mouse and