What’s New in LANDesk® Management Suite 8.7
Enterprise Efficiency and Scalability
- Centrally manage tasks by automatically distributing tasks to each system’s local core server.
- Reduce repetition by replicating public queries, packages and delivery methods across enterprise servers.
- Manage tasks and packages with grouping capabilities within console logs.
- Access intelligent, location-aware Dynamic Preferred Server for enterprise package distribution that offers functional load balancing and fault tolerance.
- Access inventory service performance that’s up to 30% more efficient than other options and can utilize between one and eight threads.
- Offload data collection and insertion to a non-core server for increased efficiency.
- Access support for Oracle Database 10g and Microsoft SQL 2005 among others.
Extended LANDesk® Management Gateway Connections
- Gather data from up to 4,000 active connections.
Enhanced Software Distribution Capabilities
- Access intelligent, location-aware software distribution capabilities with the LANDesk® Dynamic Preferred Server.
- Perform run from source software distribution with native support for deploying the Microsoft Office application following Microsoft’s recommended process.
- View Linux file/library dependencies as defined by the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) package to better understand your overall environment and plan prerequisite package needs.
- Define prerequisite LANDesk® packages to automatically install dependent packages and automatically meet your configuration policies.
Extended OS Deployment and Profile Migration
- More efficiently perform OS deployment and organize OS configurations with the included efficient OS deployment tool.
- Access support for both Windows PE and Linux PE for imaging performance up to three times faster than DOS-based imaging.
- Purchase your Windows PE licenses directly from LANDesk.
Enhanced Remote Control
- Access new role-based administration granularity to have one central location for control of your remote control permissions and remote control that’s based on the console user rather than the individual device.
- Use new integrated security features to access all the benefits of certificate-based security at significantly faster performance.
Extended Inventory Management
- Access LANDesk’s extended device discovery for a scalable discovery process for real-time subnet-level tracking of unmanaged networked devices even if those devices have a firewall enabled.
- Access inventory service performance that’s up to 30% more efficient than other options and includes the option to utilize between one and eight threads.
- Offload data collection and insertion to a server other than the core for increased efficiency.
Embedded Device Management
- Enjoy complete inventory management and asset discovery, monitoring and change control alerting for handheld, embedded and wireless devices.
- Support for the Newest Intel Advanced Management Technology (AMT)
- Access Intel AMT Agent Presence that monitors to ensure agents are still present and active and System Defense that scans for viruses and worms and isolates or restricts infected machines.
Enterprise Control
- Agent watcher restarts a downed agent, restores a renamed agent to its original state and alerts your IT team if an end user removes or tampers with the agent—so IT stays in control and end users can’t wreak havoc..
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