Product updates and releases covered in this newsletter: 

Endpoint Security 

  •  Device Control 5.1 Update 3 

Identity & Automation 

  • Automation 2019.0 
  • Identity Director 2019.0 
  • Password Director 2019.0 

IT Service Management 

  • Service Manager 2018.3.1 
  • End User License Agreement Update for Service Manager Cloud

Supply Chain 

  • Velocity 2.0.9 
  • Avalanche 6.3 

Unified Endpoint Management 

  • Environment Manager 2018.3 Service Pack 1

ENDPOINT SECURITY 

Ivanti Device Control 5.1 Update 3 is available now 

We’ve addressed a host of customer-reported bugs and added new features, too! 

Ivanti strives always to respond to our customers’ needs and feedback with action. Ivanti Device Control lives up to that tradition, addressing 16 customer-reported bugs in this latest release while adding new features as well: 

  • The Portable Device class now supports file-type filtering—which means you can set individual access policies by file type (.pdf, .doc, or .xls, for example) for devices like mobile phones. 
  • Device Control can log an event when encrypted media, such as a USB key, is unlocked—In turn, you can use this event to trigger actions on the endpoint automatically. 
  • We’ve added support for Windows 10 version 1809, Windows Server 2019, and version 7.18 of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. 

For details on our latest Win 10 support and the customer-reported issues we’ve resolved, check out the release notes here.   

IDENTITY & AUTOMATION  

Identity Director 2019.0 makes life easier 

Release 2019.0 addresses some of our customer requested features and enhancements to make life easier for administrators. Read the highlights below.  

Data connection mapping capabilities enhanced 

This enhancement allows you to go beyond 1:1 relationships. Until now you’ve mapped one data field only to a Person attribute or identifier. Now, it’s possible to combine data source fields into one Person Attribute/identifier. You’ll get the flexibility you need to use the data from authoritative sources within Identity Director, to better meet your business needs.   

Difference, Intersect, and Union functions added 

We’ve improved the ability to report across a set of common elements, in a set of values by adding the functions, difference, intersect, and union. Administrators can now create smarter audit reports and better support access reviews by extracting more useful sets of data.   

REST API improved 
Now you can obtain object information on a single call. You wanted to achieve more specific results on returned searches first time without affecting performance, well now you can. 

Workday Integration feature preview  

Now it’s easier to work with one of the most popular HR systems on the market. Gone are the days of exporting data from Workday into a CSV file for import into Identity Director. 2019.0 introduces native data source integration for Workday, enabling you to skip any intermediary steps and directly connect to Workday as an authoritative source.    

Password reset content update – Get an updated Password Director reset guide available on the Marketplace. With this guide users can install example password services to enroll and configure password reset services in Password & Identity Director. These examples and guide are provided to jumpstart the customization of your solution to meet your organizations individual needs.  

Learn more about this exciting release through our product documentation release notes. 

Password Director 2019.0    

Release 2019.0 addresses some of our customer requested features and enhancements to make life easier for administrators. Read the highlights below.  

Password reset content update  

Installing Password Director just got easier. We’ve provided a guide from which users can install example password services to enroll and configure password reset services in Password & Identity Director. With these examples you get a jumpstart in customizing your solution to meet your organizations’ needs. Get guide now from Ivanti Marketplace 

Data connection mapping capabilities enhanced 

This enhancement allows you to go beyond 1:1 relationships. Until now you’ve mapped one data field only to a Person attribute or identifier. Now, it’s possible to combine data source fields into one Person Attribute/identifier. You’ll get the flexibility you need to use the data from authoritative sources within Password Director, to better meet your business needs.   

Difference, Intersect, and Union functions added 

We’ve improved the ability to report across a set of common elements, in a set of values by adding the functions, difference, intersect, and union. Administrators can now create smarter audit reports and better support access reviews by extracting more useful sets of data. 

REST API improved 
Now you can obtain object information on a single call. You wanted to achieve more specific results on returned searches first time without affecting performance, well now you can. 

For more detail, check out the release notes.

Automation 2019.0 is available now

Automation 2019.0 addresses customer issues with over 20 issues resolved in this release. In addition, a couple of valuable enhancements were added. 

  • SQL 2017 Server is now officially supported. 
  • Connector Management – installing and using connectors in the Management Portal is now fully supported. This enables you to leverage the Automation connectors when building modules and runbooks from within the management portal. The connector package can be imported directly into the Management Portal without using the Ivanti Marketplace solution installer improving the installation experience. 
  • Refreshed Linux agents – Support SUDO mode. This allows tasks to be run as a privileged account that is not the root. In this SUDO mode existing agents would be able to run jobs without modification. Check out the list of supported Linux operating systems.  

Check out the release notes.

IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT 

Ivanti Service Manager 2018.3.1 On Premises Release 

More UI enhancements, Workflow Designer update and RESTful API information 

The latest version of Ivanti Service Manager for On Premises is now available for download. This 2018.3.1 release delivers several new UI enhancements to improve the users experience, improvements to the Workflow designer, information on RESTful APIs, and password management and session control updates to meet FedRAMP requirements. 

If you’ve been enjoying the UI enhancements delivered in the previous Service Manager releases, then you’ll love what the team has developed for you. Tell your designers about the updates in Service Manager’s Workflow Designer, including Workflow bloc icons, easier grouping of workflow blocks and color-based legend for different types of workflow blocks. With these updates, it’s now easier for a designer to see what type of action is being included, as well as better visibility to understanding what is happening in the overall workflow. End result is faster workflow design and a better experience from your designers. 

Want to make it even easier to find answers in Service Manager? Your users can now take advantage of auto-complete and auto-suggest for search; just start typing and the system will start presenting suggested results. This new search capability is available within many areas of Service Manager, such as the Knowledge base, available Service Requests and FAQs. 

Service Manager’s integration story gets better with the addition of RESTful web services. Service Manager supported SOAP capabilities and supported out-bound web services, but now adds support for in-bound actions for web service calls. Along with Zapier, Ivanti Automation and the existing APIs, this provides more integration options for your operations. 

2018.3.1 also adds a number of enhancements to password management and session control for Service Manager to improve its security. Now your admins can better manage Service Manager sessions and also licenses by ‘flagging’ and removing users who no longer use Service Manager, making it easy to automatically de-activate and remove these ‘zombie’ users. These enhancements were developed to meet FedRAMP requirements but are available to all Service Manager clients. 

Learn more about the release by viewing the “What’s New” webinar here. Stay on top of Serviced Manager updates by checking the Ivanti Community. You can download the release from the Community here. 

Find more Service Manager documentation on the Product Documentation section of the Ivanti website or the Release Notes in the Ivanti Community here. 

End User License Agreement Update for Service Manager Cloud

Update will require administrator acceptance

We want to make you aware of an upcoming change to the End User License Agreement (EULA) for Ivanti Service Manager in the Cloud.  More communications and information, including an FAQ, will be available before these changes take effect in the coming weeks but we wanted to give you advanced notice of the coming update.

Part of the EULA update will require acceptance of the EULA by one of your Administrators. Only a user logged in as an administrative user will see the updated EULA and will be prompted to accept it. The EULA will only need to be accepted once for your Service Manager Cloud instance and should not impede your ongoing use of Service Manager in the Cloud.

We’ll be providing more information on the EULA changes and processes before the changes take effect. As always, Ivanti recommends reading the EULA in its entirety prior to accepting.

SUPPLY CHAIN

More Devices, Android Enterprise are Top Updates 

Velocity, Avalanche releases deliver flexibility from the freezer to the retail floor 

Considering forklift-mounted mobile computers in your cold chain environment?  Struggling to secure corporate content and apps on mixed use devices? Our latest Velocity and Avalanche releases address these challenges and more, making it ever-easier to migrate to the Android Supply Chain.  Our latest velocity release delivers support for several new Honeywell and Datalogic devices, from forklift-mounts such as the Honeywell Thor VM1A, to the Datalogic’s most compact mobile computer, the Memor 10, which is perfect for the retail floor. 

Avalanche is now a validated Android Enterprise EMM solution, offering support for the program’s Work Profile Mode.  In this profile, is easy to deliver and manage corporate content, keeping it separate from personal data.  It also includes features that let you silently deploy and simply reclaim licenses for software applications. 

Read more about What’s New in Velocity. 

Read more about What’s New in Avalanche. 

Get the latest releases from our Downloads site. 

Find documentation and more on our Community. 

UNIFIED ENDPOINT MANAGEMENT

Ivanti User Workspace Manager 2018.3 Service Pack 1 Release 

Environment Manager 2018.3 Service Pack 1 builds upon our Cache Roaming feature with two major additions: 

  • Outlook Search Roaming - for XenApp/VDI/RDSH and workstations 
  • Combined Windows & Outlook Search Roaming - single user desktop only 

With File Director 2018.3 Service Pack 1 we now fully support running both the Personalization and Management databases in Azure SQL as a Service. This will provide further flexibility in how you choose to implement User Workspace Manager – whether on-premises, in Azure, or in a hybrid mix. 

Check out the Knowledge Article