ITMS 8.7.3 General Availability

[Mike Grueber]

On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services.  As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that IT Management Suite 8.7.3 is now available. 

Highlights of the Symantec IT Management Suite 8.7.3 release include:

• Symantec Management Agent
  • Support for token-based authentication
  • Standalone package to streamline installation of agent plug-ins
  • IsRebootPending COM object property to programmatically determine reboot status
  • Support for Windows 11 24H2 and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise 24H2
  • Support for Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024, Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise Subscription LTSC 2024   
  • Support for macOS 15 (Sequoia)
  • Support for SUSE 15 SP5
  • Support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

• Symantec Management Platform
  • Central view of package server health and automation policy notification of low disk space on package servers
  • Console and automation policy notification of expiring Microsoft Entra secrets
  • Map Microsoft Entra groups/roles to Notification Server roles when creating an import rule rather than after import
  • Option to limit Active Directory import of devices within OU groups to managed devices, enabling OU groups to be used as targets and filters
  • Cloned instances of Symantec Administrator role able to revoke certificates
  • New privilege to control ASDK access, enabling users to access functionality in console but limiting their ability to access corresponding functionality in the ASDK
  • Token-based authentication for ASDK and Internet Gateway reporting, enabling customers to eliminate use of Agent Connectivity Credentials (ACC) account 

• Symantec Management Console
  • Option to limit users to one active session
  • Option to disable drag and drop functionality within console
  • Enhanced reports user experience
  • Specify destination folder when cloning item in enhanced console views rather than automatically creating cloned item in source folder

• Patch Management
  • Support for CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog Date Added and Date Due to prioritize distribution of patches
  • Integration with Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console to download update packages and metadata
  • End users able to minimize legacy Installation Notification and Installation Progress dialogs

• Inventory
  • Improved detection of software installed per user
  • Improved reporting of dynamic user session services data
  • Support for SMBIOS 3.7, enabling improved detection and reporting of memory type, processor family and chassis package type, as well as Trusted Platform Module (TPM) data
  • Standalone Inventory support for PowerShell

• Deployment
  • Linux imaging support for NVMe drives
  • ASDK support for loading Offline Domain Join DAT files
  • Define default parameters for creating and deploying Ghost images
  • Partition Disk task able to resize GPT partition when using EFI

• Software Management
  • Support for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps
  • Option to initially display Software Category tiles to end users in Software Portal rather than tiles for each individual application grouped by category
  • Streamlined publication to Software Portal
  • Enhanced Software Portal security
  • Bulk update of Software Portal requests

• Modern Device Management
  • Support for Windows Update payloads
  • Support for additional macOS properties to manage end users' ability to disable or delete system extensions

Please see the ITMS 8.7.3 Release Notes for more information.

[Michael Lieder]

Thanks, Mike! I see in the notes they say they fixed the bug where you can't select a worksheet name when importing Excel, but I'm still getting it after upgrading my test environment to 8.7.3. Any ideas?

[Michael Lieder]

Nevermind, I figured it out. Turns out the Access Database Engine somehow didn't get installed. Sorry for the false alarm!

[deemacgee]

I understand Windows Server 2012 R2 support officially ended with the 8.7 release, but is there any way to force an upgrade from 8.6 RU3? Our primary server won't be taken to a newer OS (for multiple reasons) before we discontinue ITMS in our environment, but we'd still like to keep the platform current until then.

Does an upgrade path exist - even unofficially?

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