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 Please read on for details on Prism releases. In order to ensure the best results using Prism Asset
Manager, we encourage you to download and install the newest release.
If
you have not yet begun evaluating Prism, you may download
an evaluation version now by
clicking here
to download the upgrade please
clicking here
Current Customers: Version 10 requires
a version 10 serial number. If you do not have a valid serial number,
please
contact us
for your Version 10 serial number or to purchase an upgrade today.
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Feature
Modifications: |
An issue that
caused recurring Package Tasks to run repeatedly
when the target PC was unattended has been
fixed. |
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It is now possible
to save more than one serial number and owner on
License Unit properties. |
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It is now possible
for a Prism Package to correctly delete registry
keys on 64-bit operating systems. |
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Changes were made
to Prism’s rules.ini file to support more
Windows 7-specific locations. |
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Other minor
Console refresh issues and SQL errors have been
fixed. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online
for immediate download. Requires a version 10
serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who
are using Prism Suite, Prism Deploy, Prism Asset
Manager, versions 9 or 10 |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Server, Console, Editor, and
Client |
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Feature
Modifications: |
Sometimes an
“object reference” error occurred when going to
the Configuration Groups tab. This has been
fixed. |
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Sometimes an
“object reference” error occurred when clicking
on Distribution Locations on the Managed tab.
This has been fixed. |
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An issue was
addressed that could cause poor performance of
the Prism client on some 64-bit operating
systems |
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Administrators can now configure whether or not the Prism
client icon should be visible in the Windows system tray.
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Active
Directory computers on the Network tab can now be displayed
in a flat list rather than just within their Organizational
Unit. This prevents having to browse through many
Organizational Units when trying to direct-install the
client. |
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Performance
improvements have been made in opening and moving around in
the Console and when opening reports. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online
for immediate download. Requires a version 10
serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who
are running Prism Suite 10.0.0.369, Prism Deploy
10.0.0.369, Prism Asset Manager 10.0.0.369
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Module(s) Affected: |
Server, Console, Editor, and
Client |
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New
Features: |
License Usage feature
enables administrators to track how often installed applications are and
provides subsequent reports. |
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Network
Discovery feature allows for the discovery of all
network-connected devices, including computers, printers,
routers and switches, and provides subsequent reports. |
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Non-scannable
Assets feature allows administrators to track all types of
assets within the Prism Console, whether or not the assets
are on the network. For example, lists of non-networked
assets can be imported into the Console, or they can be
manually created in the Console. |
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Time-to-Live
feature automates the removal from the Channel of computers
that have not polled the Channel in a specified amount of
time, thus freeing up unused licenses |
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Channel
Maintenance feature allows administrators to schedule
regular clean up and optimization of their Channel database. |
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Feature
Modifications: |
An
application that is currently associated with a License Unit
can now be separated out to be managed and tracked as its
own License Unit. |
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Administrators can now configure whether or not the Prism
client icon should be visible in the Windows system tray. |
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Active
Directory computers on the Network tab can now be displayed
in a flat list rather than just within their Organizational
Unit. This prevents having to browse through many
Organizational Units when trying to direct-install the
client. |
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Performance
improvements have been made in opening and moving around in
the Console and when opening reports. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available
online for immediate download. Requires a version 10 serial
number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any
customers who are running Prism Asset Manager 8.0 and higher |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Server, Console, Editor, and
Client |
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Feature Modifications: |
Log File Viewer now supports
command line switch enabling the client log to be viewed
from the Console (via External Tools). |
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Improved handling of the Prism
Asset Manager database leads to performance improvements
within the Prism Console and SQL Server. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 9 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 9.0, Prism Asset Manager 9.0, or any Prism
Suite version prior to 9.0. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Server, Console, Editor, and
Client |
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Feature Modifications: |
All Prism components support 64
bit Windows environments. This includes the ability to
create packages on, and deploy packages to 64 bit computers. |
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Request polling allows
administrators to select a computer from the Prism Console
and request the NBT client poll the server independent of
its defined polling interval. |
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Ability to import asset data
from external sources such as Excel spreadsheets. |
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The default database has been
upgraded to SQL Server 2005. |
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Configuration Groups can
leverage Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). |
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Ability to import configuration
groups from other channels. |
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Ability to ignore specific
locations from an inventory scan |
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Performance improvements in the
console and reporting |
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Enhancements to Microsoft Office
suite handling. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 9 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 8.1, Prism Asset Manager 8.1, or any Prism
Suite version prior to 8.1 |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Server, Console, Editor, and
Client |
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Feature Modifications: |
New Boundary Client supports Windows Vista (32-bit).
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Prism Package Editor supports Windows Vista (32-bit). |
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Broadened support for numerous “Known Folders” on Windows Vista, XP and 2000 (such as Program Files, Quick Launch, User Profile Documents, Pictures, etc.).
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Packages created by an earlier version now display an upgrade prompt when opened in the Editor, allowing administrators to convert them to the new Vista-compatible format or save a copy in the legacy format. |
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Package Editor gracefully accommodates User Account Control (UAC) on Vista and avoids excessive UAC prompts. |
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New Boundary Client fully supports Fast User Switching on Vista and where applicable on Windows XP systems. |
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Improved handling of protected resources (Windows Resource Protection). |
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Prism Console now leverages .NET 2.0 framework. |
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Enhanced logging capabilities to support multiple user sessions on Vista and terminal servers. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate download. Requires a version 8 serial number.
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running Prism Deploy 7.1.1, Prism Asset Manager 7.1.1, or any Prism Suite version prior to 7.1.1.
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Module(s) Affected: |
Server, Console, Editor, and Client |
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Feature Modifications: |
Resolved issue with converting
unresolved files to license units |
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ExternalRulesConfig.INI is no
longer unintentionally overwritten during an upgrade of
Prism. |
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Resolved issues with hotkeys in
the French and German versions. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 7 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 7.1, Prism Asset Manager 7.1, or any version
prior to 7.1. This includes customers running version 7.0.4
and before. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Console, Server |
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Feature Modifications: |
Can now load multiple Consoles
and manage multiple Channels. |
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Cleaner feel to the Console: no
gridlines, scrolling rather than word wrapping. |
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Reports now remember their last
size and position. |
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Can now set a default for how
computers are identified within the Console (AD or NetBIOS).
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Improved multilingual support.
Can now open a database created in one language of Prism in
a Console of a different language. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 7 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 7.0.4, Prism Asset Manager 7.0.4., or any
version prior to 7.0.4. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Console, Server |
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Feature Modifications: |
Major performance improvements
that include more efficient processing of task assignments.
The degree of improvement will vary depending on the current
size and configuration of the channel. |
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Removal of the Prism Console
fading feature which improves the user experience when
running the Console over slow connections. |
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You can now use variables when
defining the location of the Prism Client files and
services. |
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The computer “Enabled” field now
displays correctly. |
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A display issue when viewing
Task Assignments has been corrected. The title bar now
displays the name of the selected item for which you are
viewing details. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 7 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 7.0.3, Prism Asset Manager 7.0.3., or any
version prior to 7.0.3. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Console, Server |
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Feature Modifications: |
All New Boundary Client files
and services can be installed to user-defined directories on
managed computers. |
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Improvements have been made to
the behavior of subscription files when running in user
login scripts or machine startup scripts. |
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Each installed Prism product can
be licensed for a different quantity of managed seats.
Improvements have been made to the management and assignment
of Prism product licenses in general. |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is
supported. In this release, it requires the pre-installation
of an upgraded DMO component. |
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Improvements and fixes have been
made to overall performance and console refresh behavior. In
the console, focus on selected objects is retained through a
refresh. |
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Prism has been localized to
support French language markets. |
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Application Summary reports no
longer show applications that have been deleted from
computers. |
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The Administrator Action Log now
logs changes made to a computer’s description. |
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The Channel now correctly
handles databases that are configured with case-sensitive
collation. |
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Login behavior to secured
Channels has been improved. The creation of new users
prevents entering illegal names. |
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Several issues with adding,
deleting, and renaming groups have been corrected.
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 7 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 7.0.2, Prism Asset Manager 7.0.2., or any
version prior to 7.0.2. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Console, Server, Editor, Client |
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Feature Modifications: |
It is now possible to correctly
save edits to configuration group rules. |
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A problem where computers with
long Active Directory names would not be managed in the
Channel has been fixed. |
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The organizational group
structure that is automatically created for Active
Directory-named computers now behaves the same as previous
versions of Prism. |
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Directly installing the client
to an Active Directory computer didn’t always identify the
computer as being managed by its Active Directory name. This
has been fixed. |
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A Task's scheduled time is now
visible in the Console. |
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Several problems with the
permissions that are given to Prism’s various user roles
have been fixed. |
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Editing Self-Installing Files (SIFs)
that were created with an older version of Prism did not
upgrade them properly. This has been fixed. |
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Prism has been localized to
support German language markets. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 7 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 7.0.1 or Prism Asset Manager 7.0.1 |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Console, Server, Editor, Client |
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Feature Modifications: |
Improvements have been made in
the Prism Server and Console when an uneven number of Prism
Deploy vs. Prism Asset Manager licenses is installed.
Switching between tabs in the Console is much faster.
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SQL error that appeared when
running Installed Hardware Summary or What’s Changed
Hardware reports has been fixed. |
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Wake on LAN functionality now
works correctly for recurring Tasks. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 7 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 7.0 or Prism Asset Manager 7.0 |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Console, Server, Editor, Client |
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What's New: |
Integration With Prism
Console
Prism Deploy 7 is now
administered through the new Prism Console which
incorporates new features such as network discovery,
customized views, client installation, and changing the
polling interval. All information about deployment tasks and
assignments can now be fully shared with other desktop
management functions. . |
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Task Organization
Administrators are now able to organize tasks into
groups and categories. |
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Assignment of Tasks
New view panes have been added that allow you to
more easily assign tasks by dragging and dropping tasks and
computers, and to more easily view all the assignments for
selected computers. |
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Printed Reports
In Prism Deploy, you can now customize your view of
tasks and assignments by adding, removing, resizing and
rearranging columns. Then you can produce a printed report
directly from this view. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 7 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 6.0.3 or earlier. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Deployment Console, Server |
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Feature Modifications: |
The Prism Deploy Console has
numerous performance and refresh improvements. |
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Report performance has been
improved, which results in faster report load times. |
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Improvements have been made to
the handling of the Prism account when doing a repair or
upgrade. |
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The Console will now show the
number of computers in a group without having to run a
report. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 6 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 6.0.2 or earlier. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Deployment Console, Server |
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Feature Modifications: |
Prism Deploy reports have been
improved:
** They now provide more detail about the results of Command
tasks.
** Several issues related to report filtering have been
addressed. |
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Prism Deploy now includes a
direct link to the New Boundary website for downloading
pre-created Configuration Group Rulesets. Use Rulesets to
create a set-and-forget managed environment. |
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Prism Deploy Packages now
correctly install shortcuts to systems running Windows XP
Service Pack 2 |
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Prism Deploy's installation has
been improved:
** Users now have more control over specifying the account
to be used by the Prism Server service.
** An issue that caused the download of Microsoft components
to fail has been fixed. |
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The Channel Manager now more
accurately reflects the connection status to the Prism
database. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 6 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 6.0.1 or earlier. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Deployment Console, Server,
Editor, Client |
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Feature Modifications: |
The Prism Deploy Console has
significant performance enhancements. |
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The Prism Deploy installation
has been improved. |
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The Prism Deploy Client
installation has been improved for easier use in terminal
server environments. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 6 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 6.0 or earlier. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
Deployment Console, Server,
Editor |
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What's New: |
New Infrastructure
Prism Deploy has a new SQL database as its repository for
storing information about the Channel. The SQL database
makes Prism Deploy version 6.0 extremely scalable, flexible
and powerful, and it enables companies to leverage their
existing technology investments. Prism Deploy 6.0 includes a
Channel Migration Tool to migrate pre-6.0 Channels to the
new SQL database. |
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Console Enhancements
The Prism Deploy 6.0 Console now gathers and displays
extensive information from managed clients, including
whether they are on- or offline, their last contact with the
Channel Server, their IP address, the name of the logged-in
user and more. |
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Security Roles
Prism Deploy version 6.0 allows you to create security roles
within the Console. For instance, a Help Desk administrator
may be able to create and assign Tasks, but may not be
allowed to add or remove Clients from the Channel. A manager
may be assigned the role of report reader only. Roles can be
customized and created to suit an IT organization's
structure. |
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Reports
Prism Deploy has an all-new report interface which includes
extensive filtering, report customization and export
options. Version 6.0 includes several new reports, including
Administrator Action Log, Computer Status Report and others. |
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Wake on LAN
Prism Deploy version 6.0 can now wake computers that are
powered down before deploying a Task, enabling after-hours
deployments.
Note: Target computers must have supporting hardware. Wake
on LAN is not supported on Windows 95. |
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Checkpoint Restart
Prism Deploy version 6.0 will now pick up where a deployment
left off, should the connection between the target and the
Task be dropped. Checkpoint restart ensures deployment
reliability, especially over less stable links, and enhances
support for remote users. |
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Package Authentication
Prism Deploy Packages can now be signed with a digital
certificate. Clients can be restricted to only install
Packages from a trusted source, for exceptionally secure
deployments. Packages can not be viewed or edited by
administrators who do not have access to the digital
certificate.
Note: The minimum
requirements for Client computers to support Package
Authentication are: Windows 98 and Internet Explorer version
5; NT computers must be running Service Pack 4 or above. |
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Component Installation
Prism Deploy 6.0 components can be installed on separate
systems, making Prism easy to install, configure and use.
The component installation enables greater flexibility to
separate packaging, deployment and reporting functions among
appropriate IT staffers. |
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Permissions Deployment
Prism Deploy version 6.0 can now capture file, folder and
registry permissions that may be required by certain
applications. This gives administrators the option of adding
the necessary permissions within a Prism Package and
distributing them along with the application.
Note: Permissions deployment
is only supported on computers running Windows 2000 and
above. |
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Quick Start Templates
The new Quick Start Channel, included as an option when
installing Prism Deploy 6.0, provides powerful templates for
illustrating Smart Update™ technology. Smart Update helps
users take advantage of automatic targeting and maintenance
of computers based on their configuration. |
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Feature Modifications: |
Rollback files now adjust for
daylight savings time changes when determining if a file or
folder should be rolled back.
Prism Packages and
self-installing files (SIFs) being deployed through batch
files and other processes outside of the deployment Console
now wait until they have finished applying before moving on
to the next command in the batch file or script. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 6.0 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 5.1 or earlier. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
All (Editor, Deployment Console,
Server, Client, Services, Conflict Checker) |
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Feature Modifications: |
The evaluation of Configuration
Group rules that are based on IP or NIC addresses has
improved methods for managing memory and internal
configuration storage, and also eliminates a rare fatal
error.
The assignment of a recurring task to an unlicensed or
disabled computer, or the assignment of a disabled recurring
task to a computer will no longer cause performance problems
on the target computer or the Prism Deploy Server.
Configuration Groups based on user-specific settings (e.g.
HKEY current user values) will now correctly populate.
Tasks assigned through an Organizational or Configuration
group to multiple user computers will now correctly
uninstall for all users of the computer.
Self-Installing files (SIFs) will only perform a
reinstallation of the PrismXL service on the target computer
when it is necessary.
Command tasks are now better able to open documents on older
operating systems, to open web addresses, and to open
documents whose file type association contains an unexpected
parameter. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 5 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 5.1 or earlier. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
All (Editor, Deployment Console,
Server, Client, Services, Conflict Checker) |
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What’s New: |
Prism Deploy is now available in
German and French. Customers may now choose English, French,
or German versions of the program files, on-line help, and
Quick Start Guide.
Prism Deploy fully supports the new privileges introduced in
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 and Windows Server 2003,
enabling software deployments to any user on locked-down
computers running these operating systems.
Administrators can now make the Prism Deploy Client
completely invisible to users by hiding the Client’s
task-tray icon. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 5.0 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
Prism Deploy 5.0 or earlier. |
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Module(s) Affected: |
All (Editor, Deployment Console,
Server, Client, Services, Conflict Checker) |
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Feature Modifications: |
Prism Deploy’s rule expert now
provides an “<Env Var>” type that lets administrators more
easily create a rule for custom information on users’
computers.
The Prism rule expert now supports special non-English
characters, such as umlauts.
Prism Deploy’s Configuration Groups have improved
performance and scalability, and a defect involving very
long rules has been addressed.
Prism Deploy now better reflects changes in Organizational
Group membership as computers change their OU membership in
Active Directory.
Repeat at Logon and Repeat at Startup tasks now execute
properly on computers that change Configuration Group
membership at user logon or system start-up. |
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What’s New: |
Smart Update™
Use the Group wizard to build Configuration Groups based on
hardware, software or network configuration and assign
deployment Tasks. Computers that match the configuration
automatically put themselves in the right group(s) and
receive the administrator-assigned software. |
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Citrix Server Management
Package and deploy server-based applications to Windows
servers, including those running Citrix MetaFrame and
Windows Terminal Services. Prism Deploy version 5.0 has a
unique server license. |
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Advanced Scheduling Options
New Task scheduling interface is more intuitive and has more
options, including scheduling recurring tasks (based on time
or system event). Administrators can also easily update or
repair a task that may have failed previously. |
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Enhanced Task Automation
New Installation Rules and configuration-based scripting
options provide instant access to hardware, software and
network configurations of target computers. Installation
rules are built directly into a package. |
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Full Windows Installer
Support
Prism Deploy 5.0 includes copies of InstallShield Developer
and Tuner products. Windows Installer files (including
Prism-built MSIs) can now be edited and customized for
deployment. Prism Deploy also deploys MSIs. |
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Microsoft SMS Integration
Administrators can now build PDFs and MIFs for seamless
integration with Microsoft SMS. The PDF option makes it
simple to deploy a Prism Package from SMS; the MIF option
ensures reporting to the SMS status and inventory reports. |
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Fixes: |
The way computers report their
names in the Channel has been completely redesigned. This
addresses the issue where computers may alternately appear
in the channel with their host name or their Active
Directory name. |
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The startup logic for all
components of Prism Deploy has been improved. Among other
things, the improvements fix the issue reported by some
customers that multiple Prism client icons appeared in the
system tray. |
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Prism no longer uses the TEMP
folder to store baseline Pictures. |
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Several issues in the Editor
when dragging and dropping text files between Packages and
when performing "save as" operation on a Package have been
fixed. |
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Revision Availability: |
Available online for immediate
download. Requires a version 5.0 serial number. |
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Who Should Install: |
Any customers who are running
earlier versions of Prism Deploy and/or looking to take
advantage of the new features available with version 5. |
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All (Editor, Deployment Console,
Server, Client, Services, Conflict Checker) |
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