[BESAdmin-Announcements] OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging 3.3 Release

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

The IBM Endpoint Manager OS Deployment team is pleased to announce the 
release of OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging 3.3.


This release has the following features:

* Support of Microsoft Windows 8.1 for capturing, imaging, and bare metal 
deployment
* Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) enhanced security support for deployment 
objects
* Enhanced support of Microsoft deployment tools (Microsoft Deployment 
Toolkit, Windows PE)
* Bare Metal and re-imaging usability and customization improvements


Actions to take: 

This release is an update of the existing site. No immediate actions are 
required and the current product will continue to function normally. Some 
changes were made to existing features and to the User Interface. 
To take advantage of the new functionality, create a new 3.3 MDT Bundle by 
using Fixlet 46 in the site. To use the new features, update your Bare 
Metal Servers to Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment 7.1.1 
Fixpack 14. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment can be 
downloaded from FixCentral. In airgapped  or proxy environments,  you may 
need to cache files on the IBM Endpoint Manager Server and/or the console.


Additional Resources: 

Link to  Users Guide:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/form/api/wiki/90553c0b-42eb-4df0-9556-d3c2e0ac4c52/page/f510379c-851f-4917-9e6b-114d2a929e78/attachment/1c99d1e1-fe45-4f0c-9b38-64373e16170e/media/OSD_Users_Guide.pdf

Link to wiki:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/OS%20Deployment

Instructions for airgapped can be found at the following location: 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21616689 


Published site version: 
OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging, version 35


Application Engineering Team 
IBM Endpoint Manager 


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