Users Guide

● The Alerts Management menu item in the Remote Management Console has been renamed to Notification Management.
● Dell Enterprise Server installations are no longer supported on 32-bit operating systems.
Resolved Technical Advisories v9.4
● The installer no longer accepts underscores in host names. An underscore character ("_") in either the Compatibility Server
host name or Security Server host name causes connection to that Server to fail. A host name cannot contain an underscore
character ("_"), due to a Java platform issue, JDK-6587184. For more information, see http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do?
bug_id=6587184. [DDPMTR-1345, DDPS-3570]
●
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]
● Dell Enterprise Server 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 Enterprise Server 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]
● 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]
● An issue that led to Remote Management Console timeouts when searching for endpoints is resolved. [DDPS-3400]
● An issue that caused an error during installation on servers with heavily loaded processors is resolved. [DDPS-3444]
● 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]
● Provisioning the Advanced Threat Prevention service now proceeds as expected when used with a proxy server.
[DDPS-3475]
● The backup folder is now preserved following an installation rollback during upgrade. [DDPS-3527]
● Policy template settings that include the Rijndael value now migrate properly during upgrade. [DDPS-3531]
● Logging is improved for the error that results when a user with duplicate UPNs in the Dell Data Protection database
attempts to log in to the Remote Management Console. [DDPS-3578]
● Logging is improved for the error that results when searching for a user whose group name includes a special character.
[DDPS-3587]
● The Common Encrypted Folders policy is now correctly applied to %ENV:USERPROFILE%\Downloads. [DDPS-3752]
● Endpoints that were previously removed can now be consistently added back into inventory and receive new policies as
expected. [DDPS-3772]
● The Remote Management Console Domain Details & Actions page is no longer illegible if the domain service account that is
used to add the domain includes a quotation mark (") in its password. [DDPS-3813]
● The Save option is now available when the SQL Authentication password is updated in the Server Configuration Tool.
[DDPS-3817]
● An issue that led to high Compatibility Server CPU load at restart when forensics are enabled in the Security Server is
resolved. [DDPS-3833]
● An error that caused occasional Core Server service crashes when multiple inventories are run is now properly handled.
[DDPS-3877]
● An internal error no longer displays on the Effective Policies page for an Endpoint or User after upgrade from a pre-v9.2
Enterprise Server. [DDPS-4000]
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