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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