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<span style="color:#002060">The BigFix team is pleased to announce the release of version 9.5 Patch 10 (9.5.10.79) of the BigFix Platform.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#002060">The main features included in this release are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Client Deploy Tool (CDT) Key file option and custom installation path<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">When installing the BigFix clients from the Client Deploy Tool (CDT) Wizard, you can access the target computers through the SSH key authentication. You can also specify for the Windows target computers
a custom installation path, if you do not want to use the default installation path</span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TLS-encrypted SMTP connection for Web Reports<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">When setting up an email address from Web Reports, you can upgrade the SMTP connection to TLS</span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Windows authentication leveraged in command line utilities<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">You can now use your Windows credentials to authenticate to BigFix utilities such as the PropagateFiles.exe tool and the IEM CLI</span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Windows performance, efficiency, and maintenance improvements<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The FillDB configuration has been modified to permit more efficient database bulk insert and update operations. Given FillDB is responsible for pushing client reports into the database, this results in
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The Microsoft SQL Server configuration has been updated to provide improved concurrency and scalability options for BigFix</span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The BigFix provided Microsoft SQL Server index management scripts have been rewritten to ensure indexes are better managed, with improved fault tolerance while consuming fewer system resources and reducing
application impact. This has a positive impact on the long term performance, scalability, and stability of BigFix</span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Other Enhancements<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Added full support for IBM BigFix Agent on MacOS 10.14</span>
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<span style="color:#002060">Note that, on MacOS Mojave version 10.14 or later, some default security settings restrict access to certain folders in the user's library which in turn might affect custom content</span></p>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Added support for IBM BigFix Agent on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 PPC on Power 9 (P8 compatibility mode) and SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 PPC on Power 9 (P9 mode)</span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">APAR and defect fixes</span>
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<span style="color:#002060">See further details in the 9.5.10 Release Notes at: <a id="LPlnk654659" href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/90553c0b-42eb-4df0-9556-d3c2e0ac4c52/page/IBM%20BigFix%209.5.10%20Release%20Notes">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/90553c0b-42eb-4df0-9556-d3c2e0ac4c52/page/IBM%20BigFix%209.5.10%20Release%20Notes</a></span></div>
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<span style="color:#002060">See the full technical changelist at: <a href="https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-95.txt">
https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-95.txt</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#002060">Pre-Upgrade Considerations:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">All BigFix Platform components are being released in this patch</span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ensure to STOP the WebUI and any other active application connecting to the BigFix database BEFORE starting the upgrade<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A manual Server upgrade is required if you upgrade from a version earlier than 9.5.5. Refer to the 9.5.5 release notes for more information<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A Pre-Upgrade check Fixlet is available. The Fixlet performs a set of checks to verify if the IBM BigFix Server can be successfully upgraded to 9.5.10. A log file is created in the IBM BigFix Server directory
containing details about the executed steps</span></li></ul>
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<span style="color:#002060">Useful links:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#002060">IBM BigFix downloads and release information: <a href="http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/9.5/patch10">
http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/9.5/patch10</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#002060">Upgrade documentation in IBM Knowledge Center:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#002060">BigFix Server on Linux: <a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html">
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="color:#002060">BigFix Server on Windows: <a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html">
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color:#002060">Discuss this on the forum: <o:p><a id="LPlnk724243" href="https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-9-5-patch-10-is-now-available/27423">https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-9-5-patch-10-is-now-available/27423</a></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color:#002060">-- BigFix Platform Engineering Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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