Highlights of the Symantec IT Management Suite 8.8.1 release include:
- Symantec Management Agent
- Support for Windows 11 25H2
- Support for macOS 26 (Tahoe)
- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7, 10 and 10.1
- Support for Oracle Linux 9.7. 10 and 10.1
- Support for SUSE 16 (except Deployment Solution and Patch Management Solution)
- Real time retrieval of credentials from Azure Key Vault (Entra) secret when executing several tasks using specific user accounts
- Get Agent Troubleshooting Data task retrieves log files from CEM connected devices without requirement to open network port 445 for SMB traffic
- Symantec Management Platform
- Support for SQL Server 2025 (which enables IT Analytics component of ITMS to use Power BI Report Server)
- New ephemeral CEM client certificates enabling agent to automatically generate CEM client certificates as needed
- Four new REST API methods provide increased flexibility for importing data to (and exporting data from) ITMS CMDB
- Data Connector can now call external APIs, enabling end-to-end solution for importing data to (and exporting data from) ITMS CMDB
- Key ITMS solutions and components support management of devices in IPv6 only environments
- Maintenance Window Startup Power Action enables system to be restarted before opening maintenance window if pending restart detected
- Web socket support for communication between Notification Server and Site Servers
- Microsoft Entra support for Workflow Process Manager, enabling implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication
- Microsoft Entra authentication support for multiple tenants without defined trust relationships
- Report Viewer modernization providing the ability to filter by data in individual columns, sort data by multiple columns, create multi-level groupings based on column headings, ability to save results in PDF format, and flexible and sophisticated graphing and charting capabilities
- Role security policies enable simultaneous editing of privileges associated with multiple security roles
- Ability to prevent the independent running of tasks while allowing them to be executed from within jobs
- Default values for Repeat Task Schedules eliminated (schedules previously defaulted to be executed every minute)
- Ability to create lists of custom defined values for task tokens
- Symantec Installation Manager no longer supports 30-day built-in evaluation (license key now required to install ITMS); future releases of ITMS will require new version of Symantec Installation Manager to be downloaded from Broadcom Support Portal
- Inventory
- Basic Inventory capabilities expanded to collect Computer Description
- Standard Inventory capabilities expanded to collect ODBC Data Source information from Windows devices
- Standard inventory capabilities expanded to collect BitLocker data
- Standard Inventory capabilities expanded to collect names of USB-connected Plug and Play devices
- Standard Inventory capabilities expanded to collect data regarding features installed on Windows Server computers
- Software Management
- New view showing apps imported from Microsoft Store
- Ability to import apps from Microsoft Store that are not available in the United States and ability to filter the list of available apps by country
- Expanded list of operators for Windows Version applicability and detection rules
- Patch Management
- Use of Windows Update Agent integration to install device drivers
- Windows Patch Management Support for eight additional vendors/apps (added in Windows patch management data feed)
Please see the ITMS 8.8.1 Release Notes for more information.
Endpoint Management 