Users Guide
● An error now alerts the administrator that special characters are not allowed in ddpuser, ddpconsole, or ddpsupport
passwords. Special characters in these passwords may cause authentication issues with VE services. [DDPS-3357]
● The Inventory Received field on the Endpoint Detail page of the Remote Management Console is now populated upon
activation of an endpoint. [DDPS-3982]
● Notification emails are now sent as expected when All Notification Types are selected when configuring Notification
Management in the Remote Management Console. [DDPS-4003, DDPS-4038]
● The SED Authentication Method Policy Compliance Reporter report is now present after a VE update from the update
server. [DDPS-4014]
● An issue that resulted in an internal error when clicking Device Recovery Keys on an Endpoint Detail page in the Remote
Management Console is resolved. [DDPS-4222]
New Features and Functionality v9.4
● The Remote Management Console now features enhanced configurable Dashboard and Email Notifications, to update
administrators about threat events, certificate expirations, license availability, configuration changes, product updates, and
knowledge base articles.
● Advanced Threat Prevention customers can now take advantage of these capabilities, available in the Remote Management
Console:
● Certificates can now be imported and added to the Safe list.
● Security Information Event Management (SIEM) software can be integrated to capture Advanced Threat events.
● Enhanced data about threats and devices on which they are identified is now available.
● The File Folder Encryption policy category in the Remote Management Console has been renamed to Policy-Based
Encryption.
● The Alerts Management menu item in the Remote Management Console has been renamed to Notification Management.
● Proxy Mode installations are no longer supported on 32-bit operating systems.
Resolved Technical Advisories v9.4
● The policy values in the BitLocker Manager Policy report are now correctly populated, and managed devices no longer
display on duplicate rows. [DDPS-2810, DDPS-3427]
● DDP Enterprise Server - VE now supports multiple entitlements associated with a single service tag. [DDPS-2949]
● Added 7/2017 - The Administrator Roles topic in AdminHelp no longer indicates that the System Administrator can commit
policies, recover data, and recover endpoints, and the Security Administrator can delegate administrator rights, although
these administrators do not have these permissions, and now correctly indicates that Account administrators can delegate
administrator rights. [DDPS-3004, DDPS-3005, DDPS-3006]
● The valid key format is now downloaded from Virtual Edition in Enterprise Edition for Mac recovery files, and an issue that
resulted in the Server delivering blank FileVault recovery keys is resolved. [DDPS-3139, DDPS-3873]
● A forensic key bundle download using the Administrative Download Utility (CMGAd) and the Administrative Unlock Utility
(CMGAu) now succeed. [DDPS-3244]
● Domains with names that include spaces or special characters can now be added in the Remote Management Console.
[DDPS-3329]
●
Domain Alias Names are now resolved as expected in the Remote Management Console, and login with an invalid Domain
Alias no longer succeeds. [DDPS-3330, DDPSUS-767]
● The Compliance Reporter Advanced Threat Prevention Events report now includes the Type field, which displays the threat
type. [DDPS-3331]
● Dropbox for Business remote wipe function is available in the Remote Management Console. [DDPS-3333]
● Administrators can now update Domain Settings in the Remote Management Console after their user credentials are
changed in Active Directory and when the Active Directory server or service is unavailable. A "Failed to Retrieve Domain" or
"'code':10180" message no longer displays. [DDPS-3336, DDPS-3337, DDPS-3338]
● Entering any combination of upper- and lower-case characters in Compliance Reporter settings now returns expected
results. [DDPS-3369]
● VE 9.3.0.40 and later includes a security update addressing a Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2015-1805). Customers and
field teams should take the latest VE update and all VE updates or sustaining releases as a best practice. [DDPS-3383]
● An issue that led to Remote Management Console timeouts when searching for endpoints is resolved. [DDPS-3400]
● Administrators with UPNs exceeding 32 characters can now effectively send SED commands to devices. [DDPS-3432]
● An issue that led to an internal error in the Remote Management Console is resolved. [DDPS-3454]
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