Microsoft Corporation
SUPERVISED REIMAGING OF VULNERABLE COMPUTING DEVICES WITH PRIORITIZATION, AUTO HEALING, AND PATTERN DETECTION

Abstract:

Technologies are disclosed for supervised reimaging of vulnerable computing devices with prioritization, auto healing, and pattern detection. A system for re-imaging computing devices includes a scheduler that implements a workflow for reimaging computing devices using software agents. The system also includes a supervisor that monitors state data to determine if the reimaging workflow has failed for any computing devices and for initiating an auto heal job for remediating failure of the re-imaging workflow. The system also includes a vulnerability manager that can perform various operations with respect to computing devices for which a reimaging workflow has failed a predetermined number of times. The vulnerability manager might also, or alternately, identify failure patterns (e.g. multiple instances of a reimaging workflow failing for the same reason) and initiate various actions based upon the identified patterns.