[BESAdmin-Announcements] BES 7.0 Released!

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Hi everybody,

 

We are pleased to announce that BES 7.0 is now available! 

 

BES 7.0 adds many new features including the new Distributed Server
Architecture (DSA), Bigfix Agent "Offers", role-based BES Console
permissions, improved performance, dynamic bandwidth throttling,
improved APIs, and much more. Information about the new features in BES
7.0 are available at
http://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/changes-7.0.html and a more
detailed changelist is available at
http://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-7.0.txt.

 

Upgrade Process:

Here are a few commonly asked questions about the upgrade process. The
upgrade process should be quick and easy, but please pay careful
attention to the notes to avoid any problems:

- Most BES customers with a current license are entitled to the upgrade
at no cost (check with your sales representative if you have any
licensing questions).

 

- Upgrades can be done using the Fixlet messages in the BES Support site
(there is a different Fixlet message for each BES component upgrade). 

 

- You can also upgrade any or all the components manually using the
instructions at http://support.bigfix.com/bes/install/upgradebes.html.

 

- Rather than release the Fixlet messages to upgrade to all customers at
once, the upgrade Fixlets will be become relevant for different
companies over the couple of weeks. If you don't see the upgrade Fixlet
message relevant now, you can wait until they become relevant (at some
point soon) OR you can manually upgrade your BES Server and BES Console
and the upgrade Fixlet messages for other components will become
relevant shortly afterwards. 

 

- The safest way to upgrade the BES components is in a "top-down"
fashion. The recommended order is: 

    - Upgrade the BES Server and BES Consoles at the same time.

    - Upgrade the BES Server before the upgrading the BES Relays.

    - Upgrade the BES Relays before upgrading the BES Clients.

 

- Earlier BES Clients and BES Relays are reverse compatible with the
newer BES Relays and BES Server so you do not need to upgrade all the
components at the same time as long as you upgrade in the order noted
above (however, some features will not be available until all the
components are upgraded).

 

- The BES Client upgrade Fixlet message will only become relevant after
the BES Server and BES Relays are upgraded (it can take up to 6 hours
for the BES Client upgrade Fixlet message to become relevant after the
BES Server/Relays are upgraded).

 

 

If you have any questions, please contact your support technician or
join the discussions at http://forum.bigfix.com. Please also note that
with the release of BES 7.0, we will no longer support BES 5.0 and
earlier versions (BES 5.1 is still supported).

 

We encourage all BES users to upgrade whenever possible to take
advantage of the new features and improvements.

 

Thanks,

BigFix Product Team

 

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