[BESAdmin-Announcements] Mobile Device Management - Version 2.0 Release

Announcements for BES Administrators besadmin-announcements at bigmail.bigfix.com
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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