What's New in LANDesk Management Suite v9.0?

Manage and control heterogeneous environments from a single console with anytime, anywhere support—including OS deployment, software distribution, inventory management, and software license management—for systems inside and outside your corporate network.

Software Asset Management

• Reduce the likelihood of audits and lower license costs with integrated software asset management that provides ROI reports and reliable normalization and inventory data.

Simplified Management Infrastructure

IT environments are becoming increasingly complex with the rising numbers of mobile devices, contract workers, and telecommuting employees. LANDesk® Management Suite helps you maintain control of both PCs and Macs with scalable, flexible solutions that can manage more core servers and synchronize them easily and quickly. It simplifies the process of assigning rights to console users and helps you ensure that they get the proper rights.

Further, the solution’s dynamic reporting capabilities help you understand underlying data to ensure you make the best possible decisions. We even provide easy-to-use reporting templates that help you get started. In addition, LANDesk Management Suite makes it easy to set up policies that manage power consumption to help your enterprise save money and reduce its carbon footprint.

Window 7 Migration

• Many organizations avoided moving to Windows Vista, but with the advent of Windows 7 we see many companies wanting to plan and execute the migration to this new operating system.

• LANDesk Management Suite enables you to prepare Windows 7 system readiness reports, implement the migration using OS provisioning, and maintain those new systems with outstanding antivirus and security solutions.

Enterprise Efficiency and Scalability

• NEW Core synchronization—Lets you manage configurations and tasks for all of your cores from one place
• NEW Enterprise reporting—Now providing a more powerful and flexible reporting tool that is capable of displaying the data you care about in the way you need to see it
• Rollup core—Lets you collect and view data from all of your cores, providing a centralized view of your enterprise
• Management gateway technology—Gives you complete anytime, anywhere management access to users outside your corporate firewall and at geographically distributed sites
• Granular role-based administration—Makes console user management easy, secure, and flexible
• LANDesk Dynamic Preferred Server—Enables you to distribute packages with functional load balancing and fault tolerance
• Off-core inventory service—Increases efficiency by distributing inventory processing across multiple servers
• Agent watcher—Lets you restart downed agents, restore them to their original state, and alert IT staff if a user removes or tampers with one
• Enterprise alerting—Helps you maintain control and keep the most important information in one easy-to-view section

Software Licensing

• NEW All-new interface—Lets you see and manage data in ways that meet your singular needs: IT administrators can view the network from a product perspective, license administrators can view it from a license perspective, and managers can take an organizational or group perspective
• NEW Dynamic products—Simplify asset management with version wildcarding that lets you merge multiple product versions into a single, dynamic product
• NEW Return on investment (ROI) reports—Give you the information you need to manage licenses more wisely and reduce license costs. Additional reports help decrease the likelihood of being audited—as well as avoid being stuck with major fees in the event you are
• Software usage monitoring—Tells you who’s using what and how often so you can prioritize license allocation
• Comprehensive license monitoring—Detects software license use with application usage, license reporting, and compliance reporting
• Hyperaware scanning—Helps you find known and unknown applications, as well as define and track previously unknown applications

Software Distribution

• NEW Return code mapping—Defines return codes to improve application installation accuracy
• NEW MSI native support—Enables you to copy and paste MSI command line calls
• NEW Simplified work flow—Makes for easier, faster scheduling of package installations
• NEW Simplified bandwidth controls—Help you quickly, easily set bandwidth options
• Intelligent, location-aware distribution—Helps you customize configurations appropriately
• Task-based modeling—Separates package building and delivery methods to improve efficiency
• LANDesk Targeted Multicast™—Lets you distribute large packages to multiple users with minimal bandwidth and without dedicated hardware or router reconfigurations
• LANDesk® Peer Download™—Allows you to access packages already delivered to a subnet
• Prerequisite checking and package chaining—Installs prerequisite packages and enables you to automatically install multiple packages in a single operation
• Task scheduler—Integrates with directory-service and asset-inventory databases to help you easily select targets
• Package-agnostic distribution—Deploys any package type and provides access to multi-file MSI support
• Self-service portal—Reduces help-desk incidents, empowers users to initiate approved installations, and enables faster troubleshooting via detailed histories
• Policy-based distribution—Deploys multiple software packages in a single policy and ensures the packages are available for future updating and reapplication if necessary

Remote Control

• Console-based control over role-based rights—Centralizes management duties and boosts productivity
• Application-layer agent—Improves performance and prevents conflicts
• Remote management—Enables you to perform maintenance anytime with remote wake, remote reboot, and remote application launch abilities
• Integrated chat, bidirectional file transfer, and automatic session logging—Help you rapidly resolve problems and create reports and full audit trails
• Browser-based support—Lets you resolve issues anywhere on the network from any computer with a browser
• Platform flexibility—Lets you use the platform of your choice—Mac or PC—to remotely manage any system without having to jump from console to console

Inventory Management

• Comprehensive inventory database—Lets you filter inventory data through a system with information on thousands of products and manufacturers to obtain more accurate product and file recognition with normalized data that can be leveraged by LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager
• Scalable discovery—Facilitates real-time, subnet-level tracking of unmanaged networked devices, even if those devices have a firewall enabled
• Detailed asset views—Provide asset tag, serial number, embedded pointing device, fixed-drive, and CD-ROM information
• Reporting dashboard—Helps you publish reports to a file share in HTML, PDF, DOC, RTF, or XLS formats
• Up to eight threads—Significantly improves inventory service performance
• Bandwidth efficiency—Enables automatic unmanaged device discovery (UDD), agentless inventory, and delta inventory scans with compression

LANDesk Power Manager

• Comprehensive inventory database—Lets you filter inventory data through a system with information on thousands of products and manufacturers to obtain more accurate product and file recognition with normalized data that can be leveraged by LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager
• Scalable discovery—Facilitates real-time, subnet-level tracking of unmanaged networked devices, even if those devices have a firewall enabled
• Detailed asset views—Provide asset tag, serial number, embedded pointing device, fixed-drive, and CD-ROM information
• Reporting dashboard—Helps you publish reports to a file share in HTML, PDF, DOC, RTF, or XLS formats
• Up to eight threads—Significantly improves inventory service performance
• Bandwidth efficiency—Enables automatic unmanaged device discovery (UDD), agentless inventory, and delta inventory scans with compression

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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