[BESAdmin-Announcements] Mobile Device Management - Version 2.0 Release
Announcements for BES Administrators
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Fri Jan 18 15:44:26 PST 2013
IBM has released version 2.0 of IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Device
Management (MDM).
New Major Features:
- Enhanced Multi-Tenancy Support – MDM now supports multi-tenancy for iOS
and Android devices with the addition of "enrollment" tags.
- Deny Email Access for Exchange – You can now deny email access to
devices who are non-compliant in MS Exchange.
- Expanded Lotus Traveler Security Policy Support – Lotus Traveler
Security Policies now support a wider range of Android security policies
using Lotus Traveler 8.5.3.
- Enhanced iOS Security Options - iOS Management Extender now supports
enhanced authentication of iOS Clients.
- Reworked Domain Tree Navigation - Reorganized the Mobile Device
Management Domain to provide easier and more intuitive navigation.
Fixed Issues:
- Android devices now must be enrolled using the Enrollment Server.
- Android devices now do their first gather much more quickly (should now
respond much more quickly on enrollment).
- Fixed a few potential app crashes for the iOS App.
- Fixed issue configuring Authenticated Enrollment that used passwords
with the "%" character.
- Fixed problem configuring LDAP with Chinese characters
- Sensitive information (like passwords) are now obfuscated in Exchange
and Traveler Extender configuration files.
- Added support for SSIDs with spaces in the Android Wifi Wizard.
- Added support for EAP-TTLS Android Wifi Profiles.
- Fixed faulty relevance in Android Security Policy Wizard.
- Fixed problem where Android Security Policies temporarily report
"failed".
- Fixed problem creating iOS Profiles for Exchange ActiveSync using
certain characters (such as "\").
- "Android_relay" setting will now always be configured correctly in the
Setup and Configuration Wizard.
- Now supports nonstandard TEM ports in the Setup and Configuration
Wizard.
- Fixed potential problem creating concurrent actions in the Self Service
Portal.
- Timestamps in the SSP should now be displayed in the browsers local
time.
- Command status should now automatically update in the SSP.
- Fixed device location not working in SSP for certain latitudes.
- Cleaned up Fixlet Category, Source and Source Severity metadata fields.
- Added more OS identifiers to Exchange Management, replacing previous
"unknown" OSes.
- Fixed problem where expired devices (devices that haven’t reported in
several days) could not report back in.
- Fixed various typos and descriptions.
Required Actions:
1. To upgrade your SSP, first upgrade your TSP (Fixlet 200: Upgrade
Trusted Service Provider) before upgrading your SSP (Fixlet 184: Upgrade
Self Service Portal)
2. Upgrade your iOS and Enrollment Extender using Fixlet 94: Upgrade
Management Extender for Enrollment and Apple iOS.
3. Upgrade your Android Device Notification Service using Fixlet 199:
Upgrade Android Device Notifier Service (GCM) on Server.
4. Upgrade your proxy agents on any applicable management extender
using Fixlet 191: Upgrade Proxy Agents.
Published site version:
Mobile Device Management, version 54
Application Engineering Team
Tivoli Endpoint Manager
IBM Tivoli Software
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