Symantec ALTIRIS IT MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 MR2

Altiris™IT Management Suite

7.0 MR2 Release Notes

Altiris™IT Management Suite 7.0 MR2 Release Notes

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IT Management Suite 7.0

MR2 Release Notes

This document includes the following topics:

■Introduction

■Installation and Upgrade

■Fixed Issues in this Release

Introduction

IT Management Suite from Symantec is the industry’s most comprehensive and

integrated suite for reducing the cost and complexity of owning and managing

corporate IT assets including desktops, laptops, thin clients, servers, and

heterogeneous platforms including Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac to promote

effective service delivery.

IT Management Suite is a collection of solutions and components that run on the

Symantec Management Platform.

For more information about the solutions and components, see the IT Management

Suite 7.0 Release Notes (knowledge base article 51492).

Installation and Upgrade

New Installation

You can install this product by using the Symantec Installation Manager. If you

do a new install of ITMS or any of the components, the MR2 version is installed.

For more information, see Installing the Symantec Management Platform products

(knowledge base article 45732).

Upgrade

You can upgrade this product from ITMS 7.0 by using the Symantec Installation

Manager.

In the Symantec Installation Manager, on the Product Updates page, you see the

available MRs for all of the components of ITMS. Installing MRs is optional. You

can choose to install one or more MRs. If you select the ITMS product, all

component MRs are installed.

Note, that upgrading from ITMS 6.x to ITMS 7.0 MR2 is not supported.

Upgrading the Symantec Management Agent on managed computers

After installing MR2, you must make sure that all managed computers have the

latest version of the Symantec Management Agent.You do this by enabling the

policy to upgrade the Symantec Management Agent.

To upgrade the Symantec Management Agent on managed computers

1In the Symantec Management Console, do one of the following:

■On the Actions menu, click Agents/Plug-ins >Rollout Agents/Plug-ins.

■On the Settings menu, click All Settings. In the left pane, click

Agents/Plug-ins.

2In the left pane, click Altiris Agent.

3Click Windows.

4Click the Altiris Agent for Windows - Upgrade policy.

5On the plug-in upgrade page, turn on the policy.

At the upper right of the page, click the colored circle, and then click On.

6Click Save changes.

7Repeat for the UNIX/Linux/Mac agent.

Fixed Issues in this Release

The following chapters list the new features of this release, things to know about

in this release, and previous issues that were fixed in this release.

IT Management Suite 7.0 MR2 Release Notes

Fixed Issues in this Release

Asset Management Solution

Build number 7.0.1359

The following are the issues that were fixed in the MR2 of Asset Management

Solution.

Table 1-1 Fixed issues in Asset Management Solution

Internal IDIssue

2015801Software Licenses list does not display a software product if the end

date of its license is in the past.

2035968Companies that have no name, are displayed as a slim line in the

companies report.

2054047When you try to add an existing line item from a purchase order that

has more than 20 line items, you get an error message “TheDatacould

not be loaded”.

1949840The Resource Link that is created for a Resource Type remains after

deleting the Resource Type, but clicking it gives errors.

1961763Some legacy software licensing reports fail to run.

2093031Edited Asset Status of a resource is not saved.

2076683When a computer is created manually and has the ownership set, and

then a computer checks in with basic inventory and full inventory,

and then both of these computers are merged, the Asset User Owner

association is lost when the clean ownership task is ran after the

merge.

2077152Ownership details dataclass is not updated correctly if the owners

(users) with same name are merged.

Deployment Solution

Build number 7.1.629

The following are the issues that were fixed in the MR2 of Deployment Solution.

Table 1-2 Fixed issues in Deployment Solution

Internal IDIssue

1833046When a Preboot Configurations policy is cloned, the name for the

clone is not properly displayed.

9IT Management Suite 7.0 MR2 Release Notes

Fixed Issues in this Release

Table 1-2 Fixed issues in Deployment Solution (continued)

Internal IDIssue

1885110Deployment Task Handler install policy does not check whether the

Site Servers have both Package Server Service and Task Server Service

installed.

1905379In the Sysprep Imaging Configuration dialog box, the text for the

item Modified is clipped.

1914466When selecting Sysprep Configuration files, localized text is not

displayed--it is English only.

1951071PECTAgent.ini refers to an incorrect port, which prevents image

creation.

1954244, 2046881PrebootConfigurations page and PXEServerConfiguration page do

not have context sensitive help.

1967333In the Import OS Files dialog box, the Add Files option does not work

in German and in Italian.

2017328When the system restarts after the Prepare for Image capture task

has run, the time zone information dialog box appears and stops

responding.

2025056, 2080920PECTAgent fails to load.

2027332The Applied to filter of the Deployment Site Server Components -

Install policy targets any Site Server without Site Server Components

installed.

2027390When in a hierarchy, the Preboot Configuration policy page did not

store targets correctly.

2029214When Hierarchy is enabled, the PXE Preboot Configurations policy is

incorrectly replicated down-stream and can break down-stream

policies.

2036756Query for NSSERVERNAME token is incorrect.

2039921A Copy File task with the execute command that is scheduled to run

on a client computer, copies the file successfully but fails to execute.

2046881Some pages were not displaying online help when pressing F1.

2047965After running the Install Windows OS task with inventory data for

Win 2003 operating system, the client computer starts successfully

but fails to join the domain.

IT Management Suite 7.0 MR2 Release Notes

Fixed Issues in this Release

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