LANDesk Management Suite 8'7

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LANDesk Management Suite8.7
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Cost-effective, intelligent systems, security
and process management solutions with
single-console simplicity.
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LANDesk Management Suite 8.7 Overview
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LANDesk Management Solutions 8.7Solving
Real-World Problems

• Managing too many products from too many vendors
• Customers need to manage and secure their
  enterpriseusing one tightly integrated solution
• Complex Enterprise environments
• Distributed locations, multiple administrators,
  mobile users
• Preparing for Vista migration
• Readiness assessment, performance requirements,
  workflow process

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LANDesk Management Suite New 8.7 Features

• Agent Watcher
• Remote Control
• RBA granularity
• Integrated security
• LANDesk Handheld Embedded Device Manager
• Handheld Manager
• Mobile 5 OS, Auto-update client, Custom Data
  Gatherer
• Embedded Device
• Wyse, HP, Teklogix
• LANDesk Management Gateway Enhancements
• Increased connection limit by 300
• Platform Support Updates

• OS Deployment Vista Ready
• New 32-bit, pre-boot environments
• Windows PE, LDLinux,
• Microsoft WIM Ximage support
• LANDesk Imaging Technology
• 100 performance Increase
• Extended Device Discovery Database
• Multi-threaded Inventory Service
• Off-Core Inventory Service option
• Enterprise Hierarchical Optimization
• Global Scheduler
• Core Replication
• Console Grouping
• Scheduled Tasks and Packages
• Software Distribution
• Dynamic Preferred Server smart distribution for
  mobile users
• Run-from-Source delivery method enhanced MSI
  support
• Linux Package Dependency

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LANDesk Management SuiteLANDesk Handheld and
Embedded Device Manager
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Prepare for Microsoft VistaNew OS Deployment
Preboot Environment

• Customer Challenges
• Prepare for Vista
• Faster overall performance
• Free PE alternative

• OS Deployment Tool (New!)
• Single UI for working with OSD tasks
• Grouping helps organize OSD configurations
• WinPE Support (New!)
• WinPE-based imaging now included
• Supports Microsoft XImage and new .WIM format
• Supports Vista deployment
• Faster performance for Windows XP/other Windows
  deployments
• WinPE licenses sold by LANDesk
• Linux PE Support (New!)
• Based on LD-Linux, a variant on the Fedora 2.6
  kernel
• Includes Linux imaging and partitioning tools
• 32-bit performance up to 3X speed of DOS-based
  imaging
• No-cost alternative to WinPE

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Extended Device Discovery

• Customer Challenges
• Scalable discovery
• Real-time tracking
• Discover devices with firewalls

• Benefits
• Scalable discovery process
• Remove the ping sweep burden from the core
• Real-time subnet level discovery tracking
• Allows you to discover devices on network even if
  they have a firewall
• XDD Process
• Agent is deployed to client device
• Client device becomes a listener
• Listens for ARP requests on the subnet
• When it hears ARP requests, it verifies that
  against a table
• If the Mac and IP address are not in the table,
  it does a CBA ping
• If successful, it adds to table
• If failure occurs, it sends info back to core
  that it discovered a node on its subnet that is
  not managed

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Enterprise Global Scheduler

• Customer Challenges
• Centralized management
• Reduce repetitive process
• Enhanced scalability

• Customer Benefits
• Centralized task management for enterprise
  environments with multiple core servers
• Reduce the repetitive process of creating tasks
  on multiple core servers
• Increases scalability of the LANDesk software
  delivery solution, utilizing a fan-out,
  distributed approach
• Global Scheduler Process
• Create a task with targets from the Rollup Core
• Global scheduler understands which core the
  targeted devices belong to and creates the task
  down on their individual site cores
• Task status flows back up to Rollup Core task
  scheduler

Rollup Core and Global Scheduler
Site Core 3
Site Core 1
Site Core 2
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Software DistributionDynamic Preferred Server

• Customer Challenges
• Roaming users
• Location aware
• Intelligent distribution

• Customer Benefits
• Provides functional load balancing and fault
  tolerance for enterprise package distribution
• Intelligent, location aware, efficient software
  distribution
• Provides the long-awaited answer for users that
  roam from location to location
• Dynamic Preferred Server
• Automatically selects preferred package\staging
  server for client
• Determines location and performance of network
  links to select the most efficient method to
  packages
• Works in conjunction with existing technologies
• Peer-Download
• Targeted Multicast

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Agent Configuration Agent Watcher

• Customer Challenges
• Agents get removed
• Tampering management tool
• Health of agents

• Customer Benefits
• Solves the problem of users finding ways to
  remove management agent
• Watches and Alerts based on key components of the
  LANDesk agent being removed
• Agent Watcher
• Apply a watcher configuration with the LANDesk
  Agent
• Watcher then monitors status of files and
  services
• If services are down, it will restart them (one
  time)
• If files are pending delete, it will look at
  pending file rename and try to restore back to
  the original state
• If tampering is detected, it reports this back to
  the core server

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LANDesk Handheld and Embedded Device Manager

• Customer Challenges
• Supporting thin clients
• Agent updates
• Configuration items

• Additional Platform Support
• Windows Mobile 5
• New Thin Client Platform Support
• Wyse S30, 3125 SE
• Neoware e100, e500, Capio One
• HP T5520
• Teklogix 753x
• Including the following functionality
• Inventory
• Software Distribution
• Citrix ICA/Microsoft RDP/browser configuration
  deployment

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Platform Support Updates

• LANDesk Core Server
• Windows Server
• LANDesk Database
• Oracle 10
• Microsoft SQL 2005
• LANDesk Client
• Microsoft XP x64
• AMD Athlon 64
• AMD Opteron
• Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T
• Intel Pentium 4 with EM64T support
• Red Hat 4
• SUSE Linux

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LANDesk Management SuiteAdditional Details
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Remote ControlRBA Granularity

• Customer Challenges
• Central remote permissions
• Faster overall performance
• Time constraints

• Customer Benefits
• One central location for control of
  remote-control permissions
• Remote Control Access tied to the console user
• Not machine-based
• RBA Remote Control Settings
• Central control of RC rights
• Remote Control \ View Only
• Execute Programs
• Transfer Files
• Chat
• Reboot Machine
• Time constraints
• Based on days
• Time range
• Requires one of these RC security models
• Integrated Security New
• Certificate-Based

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Remote ControlIntegrated Security

• Customer Challenges
• Secure remote control
• Fast remote control

• Customer Benefits
• All the security benefits of Certificate-based
  with substantial speed improvements
• Integrated Security
• Certificate-based
• Central administration of remote control rights
  via RBA
• Quick startup of remote control sessions
• Supports new RBA remote control rights and time
  filters
• Integrated Security vs. Certificate-based
• Only difference between them is that certificate
  based is an on-demand load of the RC agent on the
  client, which tends to be slower then Integrated
  security

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Macintosh Platform SupportInventory and Software
Distribution

• Customer Challenges
• Improved performance
• Silent installs
• Greater configuration control

• Overall Performance Enhancements
• Faster install returns control to user more
  quickly
• Stochastic scheduling for application policies
  reduces load on core
• Software Distribution (New!)
• StuffIt packages install silently minimize
  intrusion on user experience
• Distribute shell scripts as tasks for ultimate
  control over user environment
• Distribute Apple Automator tasks to enable
  complex actions on clients (Mac OS X Tiger only)
• Inventory Updates (New!)
• Bluetooth devices now discovered by inventory
  scanner
• More complete picture of end-user environment
  supports audit, corporate policies
• Scan for presence of media files and include in
  inventory

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Other Enhancements

• LANDesk Management Gateway
• Increased connection limit by 300
• 4,000 active connections per Management Gateway
• Software License Monitoring
• Increased console performance by 5x
• Calculate compliance refresh button for instant
  status

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Database

• Customer Challenges
• Scans stacking up
• Underutilized servers
• Increased performance

• New Platform Support
• Oracle10
• Microsoft SQL 2005
• Multi-threaded Inventory Service
• Increased inserting scans speed
• Select between 1 and 8 threads to be utilized
• Off-Core Inventory Service option
• Allows you to place the inventory collection and
  inserting process burden onto another server to
  alleviate stress on the core server
• 30 increase in Inventory Service performance
• Improved software inserting methods

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EnterpriseAutomatic Tool Propagation

• Customer Challenges
• Eliminate repetitive tasks
• Central management

• Customer Benefits
• Eliminate the repetitive task of creating public
  queries, packages, and delivery methods on
  multiple core servers
• Central management control from a single location
• Replicate to Core Servers
• Queries
• Packages
• Delivery methods