Symantec EPM Office Hours July 2023

The Endpoint Management product management team will be holding office hours on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, at 11:00AM ET/8:00AM PT. During this session, the team will be presenting the upcoming roadmap for the IT Management Suite (ITMS) and covering some additional product and support announcements. We look forward to connecting with you. Please register here.

New Symantec ITMS Windows MDM Videos available

Image by Tumisu from Pixabay Learn how to manage Windows devices without an agent, using Modern Device Management Protocols built into the operating system. To access the newly created videos on Broadcom IMS Academy click here. Make sure to select "Essential Security Products" as Category and click Apply The ITMS Modern Device Management consists of … Weiterlesen New Symantec ITMS Windows MDM Videos available

Did you know how to use Proactive Remediation Scripts in Altiris ITMS Version 8.7

During my research on the Outlook Vulnerability CVE-2023-23397 my co-worker and college Martin created a Powershell script to update the vulnerable M365 versions with an Altiris Task to a version that wasn´t affected. A few hours later I discovered a proactive remediation script developed by Nicola Suter which does the same (same result). What is … Weiterlesen Did you know how to use Proactive Remediation Scripts in Altiris ITMS Version 8.7

The MDM journey continues in ITMS 8.7 with support for Windows 10 and Windows 11

Last year I wrote an article about a new ability that allows us to manage MacOS Devices through MDM. With the ITMS 8.7 release Symantec extends this cababilities to manage Windows 10 and Windows 11 through MDM. This new cababilities allows us to manage Devices through MDM only or in combination with the Symantec Management … Weiterlesen The MDM journey continues in ITMS 8.7 with support for Windows 10 and Windows 11

Simplified OS Deployment using OSDCloud with Symantec ITMS 8.6 RU2 release and higher

In this Blogpost I will show you how easy it is now (with the 8.6 RU2/RU3 release) to consume things like OSDCloud without modifying the boot.wim File. If you are running 8.6 RU2 or higher, do not use my old Blogpost on OSDCloud because here is a very simple and supported method to leverage the … Weiterlesen Simplified OS Deployment using OSDCloud with Symantec ITMS 8.6 RU2 release and higher

Jobs or Tasks get queued when TLS and SSL Hardening used on SMP and Task Servers

We found that if SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0 as well as TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols are disabled for hardening reasons, running Jobs / Tasks are getting queued and do not start immediately when scheduling them using quick run or schedule. Most of the hardening scripts for SSL and TLS disable SSL 2.0, SSL … Weiterlesen Jobs or Tasks get queued when TLS and SSL Hardening used on SMP and Task Servers

Feature Request: Windows Package Manager (WinGet) Connector for ITMS

The Windows Package Manager (also known as WinGet) is a free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It consists of a command-line utility and a set of services for installing applications.[3][4] Independent software vendors can use it as a distribution channel for their software packages. [Source: Wikipedia]. The … Weiterlesen Feature Request: Windows Package Manager (WinGet) Connector for ITMS

What´s new in ITMS 8.6 RU3

Another great Symantec ITMS release on August 10th 2022 In this release a Technical Preview of MDM for Windows 10 and 11 is included. The plan is to extend the MDM capabilities in ITMS to cover Windows 10 and 11 as part of the first release of ITMS in 2023. The Windows MDM capabilities are … Weiterlesen What´s new in ITMS 8.6 RU3

What´s New in ITMS 8.6 RU2

Altiris 8.6 RU2 released on January 26, 2022 The following new features are introduced Initial Release of modern device management for macOS: please take a look at my Blogarticle "Is Symantec entering the Mobile Device Management / Mobile Application Management space again?" - most of this is still valid. I hope that the MDM management capabilities … Weiterlesen What´s New in ITMS 8.6 RU2