Review the following sections:
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 provides the following new features or enhancements:
Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 as a Primary Server
Support for Windows 7 as a managed device
NOTE:Windows 7 is also supported as a managed device (except for Personality Migration) in Update for ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP2 (10.2.2) or later.
For more information, see System Requirements
in the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Installation Guide.
The following enhancements have been made to Asset Management.
Asset Management now includes support for user-based license models.
With user-based license models, licensed users are associated with devices, which are associated with software product installations. A license is consumed only if a software product installation is found on a device associated with the user. If multiple installations of the product are installed on multiple devices associated with the user, a single license is consumed.Two user-based license models are supported: Per-User and Per-Named User. The Per-User license model covers all users except those you specifically exclude (excluded users). Any user associated with a product installation consumes a license. Product installations associated with excluded users are either covered by other license entitlements (if Per-Installation entitlements exist that cover the same product) or reported as unresolved installations.The Per-Named User license model covers only those users you specifically include (covered users). Any covered user associated with a product installations consumes a license. Product installations associated with non-covered users are either covered by other entitlements (if Per-Installation Entitlements exist that cover the same product) or reported as unresolved installations.
Enhancements have been made to various Asset Management features in ZENworks Control Center to increase usability:
On a document’s Relationship page, you can now add the document to existing contracts, entitlements, and purchase summary records.
On a purchase record’s Purchase Details page, you can now create a catalog product and add it to a purchase detail record.
On a license’s Compliance Status page, the columns in the Compliance Status panels have been changed to more clearly identify each license entitlement, its license model, and its covered product versions.
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 provides the following new features:
Authentication Mechanisms: Allows you to use smart card to log in to the user source and subsequently in to ZENworks. You can use the Kerberos authentication mechanism to log in to Active Directory and use the Shared Secret mechanism to log in to eDirectory.
Authentication Satellite Devices: Satellite devices with the Authentication role can now speed the authentication process by spreading the workload among various devices and by locally performing authentication to managed devices. You can have multiple Satellite devices with the Authentication role. In addition, each Satellite with the Authentication role can have multiple user sources configured and each Satellite can have multiple connections to each user source to provide failover.
Imaging in ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 provides the following new features or enhancements:
Support of Window Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) 3.0 for third-party imaging.
Support for imaging operations from ZENworks 7.x Desktop Management (ZDM 7) for the devices on which the ZDM 7 agent and the ZENworks Adaptive Agent with Asset Management coexist.
Support for replicating or distributing the imaging content for Satellites with the Imaging role based on the content replication settings such as throttling and schedule.
For more information, see Adding and Configuring Satellite Devices in the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management System Administration Reference.
The following rights have been added:
Assign Bundles: This new bundle right allows or denies the administrator the rights necessary to assign the bundles listed in the contexts panel of the Bundle Rights dialog box to the user or device objects.
Assign Policies: This new policy right allows or denies the administrator the rights necessary to assign the policies listed in the contexts panel of the Policy Rights dialog box to the user or device objects.
If you upgrade from ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP2 to ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3, the existing Administrator accounts get the following rights in addition to the rights they already have:
Assign Bundles and Assign Policies rights for the specified context
Assign Bundles right for the Bundles context
Assign Policies right for the Policies context
For more information, see Rights Descriptions in the System Administration Reference.
ZENworks 10 Patch Management SP3 provides the following new features or enhancements:
You can now control the deployment of mandatory baseline patches from the tab in ZENworks Control Center.
You can deploy a patch to all non-patched devices or choose specific devices, folders, or groups for patch deployment in the Deployment Wizard.
The Event schedule type in the Remediation Schedule page of the Deployment Wizard has been replaced with Now.
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 provides support for a remote management proxy on the following platforms:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES Linux) SP1
You can use the User Details report in ZENworks Reporting to report user details such as the username and e-mail address from the LDAP user sources configured in ZENworks Control Center. You can also link the ZENworks reports with the User Details reports.
You can upgrade the Primary Server or managed devices directly to ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 from the following versions by using the ZENworks System Update feature:
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP2 (10.2)
Update for ZENworks 10 Configuration Management (10.2.1)
Update for ZENworks 10 Configuration Management (10.2.2)
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 is now available as a software appliance that can be deployed to the supported virtual infrastructure. This software appliance is built on the customized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (SLES 10 SP2) and is preinstalled with ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 Server and ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 ZENworks Reporting Server.
For more information, see the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Appliance Deployment and Administration Reference.