[BESAdmin-Announcements] [Pre-Announce] Tivoli Endpoint Manager Platform 8.1 and 8.2 End of Support

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

We have added lot of features and enhancements in 9.x platform releases. We
are pre-announcing end of support for 8.1 and 8.2. Here are the list of key
features you would get if you upgrade to 9.x.

64-bit server components: Windows Server Components (Server, Console, Web
Reports, FillDB, and BESAdmin) are now 64-bit Windows applications. This
improves performance for large IEM deployments

Expanded OS support: Debian 6, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Windows Server 2012, RHEL
7

Enhanced Security: Disable SHA-1 signatures in favor of SHA-256, Support
for TLS 1.2 and root certificate key strength increased from 1024 to 4096
bits

Common Criteria security certification:  Increased server audit logging and
configurable attributes for Console and Web reports

New agent inspectors: SSID for WiFi inspector, SQLite inspectors, JSON
inspectors, SHA-2 inspectors, TCP/UDP port inspectors (supported on Windows
7+, Windows Server 2008+), Inspectors for tracking long Fixlet evaluation
times, SHA-2 inspectors

Granularity of Access Control: This allows NMO users to manage actions

Improved relay resiliency: Relay recoverability from errors and data
corruption has been added

Additional notes:
9.0 changelist
9.1 changelist
9.2 changelist
Fixlets for upgrading to the latest platform version are available in the
BES Support site
Manual upgrade instructions are available at:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Upgrading
Upgrade Fixlets for previous versions of IBM Endpoint Manager are available
at: http://support.bigfix.com/bes/install/beswindowsarchive.html




Regards,
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    Ashwin Manekar
    Product Manager, Endpoint Manager and Mobility Solutions
    IBM, Emeryville, CA

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