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</p><p style="margin-top:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">The BigFix Team is pleased to announce a new release of BigFix Virtual Endpoint Manager.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">The main reasons to upgrade to this release are as follows:</p><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px;clear:both;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none"><li><p>Soft deprecation of the Management Extender installation. (Installation fixlet <span class="gmail-hashtag-raw">#801</span> is permanently disabled).</p></li><li><p>Enable deallocate Azure instances in Virtual Endpoint Manager site, New fixlet ,<span class="gmail-hashtag-raw">#742</span> Microsoft Azure discovered resources deallocate</p></li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">Defect Articles Remediated:</p><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px;clear:both;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none"><li><p>KB0123675 : BigFix Server Automation: VEM Operation (Restart - soft) failing on correlated devices</p></li><li><p>KB0115908 : Patches for ESXi site not evaluating with vmware plugin</p></li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Additional information about this release</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">*Published site and components version:<br>Virtual Endpoint Manager - Site Version: 74</p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Soft Deprecation announcement for the management extender:</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">As you know, with recent Virtual Endpoint Manager and Patches for ESXi releases, it is now possible to exercise the related use cases leveraging the VMWare Plugin delivered with BigFix MultiCloud feature:</p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none"><a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/t/content-in-the-virtual-endpoint-manager-site-has-been-published-2024-04-03/48223" title="https://forum.bigfix.com/t/content-in-the-virtual-endpoint-manager-site-has-been-published-2024-04-03/48223" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://forum.bigfix.com/t/content-in-the-virtual-endpoint-manager-site-has-been-published-2024-04-03/48223</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">This makes the VMWare Management Extender no longer required.<br>The VMWare Plugin has several advantages with respect to the Extender, including better performance, higher scalability, and correlation of discovered VMs with related BigFix agents.<br>Because of this, we are now announcing the deprecation of the VMWare Management Extender that is delivered in the Virtual Endpoint Manager and Patches for ESXi sites.<br>This component installation will no longer be supported after Nov 20th, 2025<br>The installation fixlet will made disabled permanently, and rest of the related components will be removed after the end of support date next year.<br>Please note that for leveraging the VMWare plugin with Virtual Endpoint Manager and Patches for ESXi you need to be at BigFIx Platform version 10.0.12+ or 11.0.2+.<br>For upgrading your environment and leveraging the VMWare plugin, please refer to:<br><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_migration_to_vmwareplugin.html" title="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_migration_to_vmwareplugin.html" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_migration_to_vmwareplugin.html</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">For more information on the VMWare Plugin, please refer to:<br><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_cloudintroduction.html" title="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_cloudintroduction.html" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_cloudintroduction.html</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Useful links</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">*BigFix SA Virtualization Documentation:<br><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html" title="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html</a><br><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html" title="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">PatchesForESXI<br><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html" title="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html</a><br><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html" title="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">Virtual Endpoint Management<br><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html" title="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html</a><br><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html" title="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none"><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_Virtual_Endpoint_Man/c_offline_patching_workflow.html" title="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_Virtual_Endpoint_Man/c_offline_patching_workflow.html" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_Virtual_Endpoint_Man/c_offline_patching_workflow.html</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:none">– HCL BigFix – Lifecycle Team</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:1.714;font-family:"Atlassian Sans",ui-sans-serif,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(41,42,46);background-color:rgba(5,21,36,0.06)">

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