Users Guide

Preboot Authentication
• Single Sign-on intermittently fails on computers with self-encrypting drives on which Preboot Authentication is activated. [DDPLP-144]
• When replacing a provisioned self-encrypting drive (with the Preboot Authentication environment active) with a new self-encrypting
drive and provisioning the Preboot Authentication environment, after the new SED is provisioned, the old SED can no longer be
recovered. [DDPLP-150, MMW-581]
• On the Dell Latitude Rugged Extreme, the user is able to detach the tablet from the dock. However, the dock is needed to log in
through the PBA. Detach the tablet only after the PBA authentication step is complete. [DDPLP-162, DDPLP-163]
• After successfully authenticating to the Preboot Authentication environment, the computer will not complete Single Sign-on. Instead,
the computer halts at the Windows Logon screen for another user. Microsoft Windows 8.1 defaults to the Logon screen for the
previously authenticated user. To complete logon, return to the User Tiles screen by selecting the back arrow in the top right of the
screen and then selecting the correct user tile for the user authenticated in the PBA. SSO data captured by the PBA may still be
present and once the user tile is selected, Windows authentication may be completed automatically. [MMW-564]
Resolved Technical Advisories v8.4
Advanced Authentication
• Pre-enrolled Contactless Smart Card users are no longer lost after joining the computer to the domain. [28386/DDPC-61, MMW-347]
Technical Advisories v8.4
Encryption
• When USB external media with little or no space available are inserted into Shielded computers to be encrypted, users receive no
indication that the media are full and will not be encrypted. [DDPC-243]
New Features and Functionality v8.3.2
• Dell Data Protection | Encryption Personal Edition, External Media Edition, and Advanced Authentication clients now support Windows
8.1 Update 1.
• This release of adds support for the following platforms when using the DDP | Hardware Crypto Accelerator:
• Dell Precision M4800
• Dell Precision M6800
• Dell Precision T1700
• Dell OptiPlex 7010
• Dell OptiPlex XE2
• Dell OptiPlex 9020 AIO
• Dell OptiPlex 9020
Resolved Technical Advisories v8.3.2
All Products
• Occasional failures when running the master installer have been resolved. The Wizard was interrupted message no longer displays.
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