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What's New in LANDesk Management Suite® v8.8?

Version 8.8 of the LANDesk® Management and Security Solutions, plus version 4.1 of LANDesk® Process Manager, offer many new and exciting features and enhancements.

LANDesk® Management Suite 8.8 

Software License Monitoring
  • Ability to deny by Active Directory or LANDesk Group with options to deny by product or file
Software Distribution
  • Streamlined user interface
  • Easier policy deployment for multiple packages, updates and re-application of policies
  • Automated policy removal
  • HTTP authentication for Windows clients
LANDesk® Management Gateway Appliance
  • A hardware appliance with new features, including an easy configuration interface, auto updates and patches, and system backup and recovery
Local Scheduler
  • Additional flexibility for setting up tasks, including true randomiser and new OS event filters
Intel AMT 2.0 Support
  • New AMT-enabled management functionality
  • Full support in Win32 Console
Provisioning
  • More than 100 provisioning templates, 70 of which are Dell-specific
  • Provision ESX hosts and enhanced Vista support
  • Additional action handlers such as making a directory, joining a domain, and more
Alerting
  • New enterprise-scalable alerting architecture and user interface
Remote Control
  • Viewer is now available as a Mac application, so you can remote control from your choice of platform
Mac OS X
  • Inventory improvements leverage Apple System Profiler
Return on Investment Report
  • Demonstrate the value of LANDesk products by capturing data on five LANDesk actions
  • Configurable cost savings per action shown in graphical reports
Legacy Agent
  • Continued support for legacy platforms such as 9x and NT4machines
  • Available by contacting LANDesk Customer Care

LANDesk® Security Suite 8.8 

Data Leakage Protection
  • New Wireless Access Point Discovery allows you to secure the network by discovering unapproved wireless access points (WAPs)
  • USB Encryption and Read/Write Control of USB/CD/DVD protects corporate data from changing hands advertently or inadvertently
Firewall Management
  • Manage the security configuration of the Windows (including Vista) firewall from one console
  • Improved XP firewall management
Network Access Control
  • New 802.1x remediation protects the organisation from virus outbreaks and unauthorised access
  • Require policy compliance such as up-to-date virus pattern files and patches before a device connects
Application Blacklisting
  • New application blocker configurations control applications used by different individuals or groups to improve productivity and security

LANDesk® Patch Manager 8.8 

Patch Process Management and Enforcement
  • LANDesk® Process Manager's Parallel Patch Process now included to automate the deployment of patches
  • Local scheduler enhancements offer additional flexibility to patch deployment
Alerting New enterprise-scalable alerting architecture and user interface Return on Investment Report
  • Demonstrate the value of LANDesk® products by capturing data on five LANDesk actions
  • Configurable cost savings per action shown in graphical reports
LANDesk® Host Intrusion Prevention and LANDesk® Antivirus 8.8 Application Control and Whitelisting
  • Whitelisting of applications approved to run on the device
  • "Loose" and "tight" configurations
Buffer Overflow Protection
  • Protect against exploits that take advantage of programs waiting on a user's input
  • Protect from both stack- and heap-based attacks
International Support
  • Now localised and supported in 20 languages
Antivirus
  • Improved performance and reduced footprint
  • Manage antivirus from the same console and with the same agent

LANDesk® Process Manager 4.1

Patch Process Management and Enforcement
  • LANDesk® Process Manager's Parallel Patch Process now included to automate the deployment of patches
DSView 3.X Integration
  • Enhanced audit trail for DSView users
  • Automation for the data center, which takes advantage of both LANDesk and the DSView API from Avocent
Simplified UI
  • "Wizard-like" configuration routines and multiple ways to configure attributes
  • Improved error corrections
Content Development
  • Easy updates to process library
  • New workflows published for DSView integration, including power cycle devices and session management through KVM

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