Wake-On-WAN and LDMS 8.7

We've had a few reports that the WoL executable is not being launched when Wake-On-WAN is installed on some LANDesk 8.7 systems. We are investigating and hope to have a fix shortly. Sorry for any inconvenience.

.Net 3.5 on LANDesk Core

We've had a few questions from people who are not keen to install .Net 3.5 on their LANDesk Core Server. The important thing to note about this is that .Net 3.5 still configures version 2.0 for the ASP.Net components so LANDesk just isn't affected and LANDesk cores work without issue.

If LANDesk support tell you 3.5 isn't supported, remember this just means it has not gone through their official testing, not that it causes issues. If they can point to specific issues caused by the presence of 3.5 (which they should be able to if they exist since they are the central repository of all issues) then please tell us.

Of the 200+ people that have downloaded our products we have not had a single report of a .Net3.5 related issues.

LANDesk® Security Suite to Include HIPS; NAC Will be Offered as an Add-On

LANDesk have announced that effective November 1, 2008, LANDesk® Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) will be included with LANDesk® Security Suite (LDSS). Also effective November 1, 2008, LANDesk® Network Access Control (NAC) will no longer be included in LDSS for new customers but will be sold as an add-on to LDSS.

LANDesk® Host Intrusion Prevention System

The inclusion of HIPS in LDSS will add a significant layer of protection to LDSS. "HIPS is a critical layer to our LANDesk Security Suite," says Devin Anderson, Business Line Manager for LANDesk security products. "It helps LANDesk customers protect themselves from targeted attacks and zero day threats by providing key technologies such as buffer-overflow protection, whitelisting, and application control."

HIPS gives customers more ability to prevent programs and applications from engaging in malicious behaviors, such as modifying certain registry keys, directories, files, and the system startup group. Using buffer-overflow protection, file certification and file protection rules, as well as other techniques, users' machines are protected.

HIPS helps LDSS customers bridge the "Patch Gap" - the period of time between when a vulnerability is announced, exploited, and when a patch is finally available. By protecting against the zero-day threats, HIPS can better ensure machines are safe even before patches are available.

For those security administrators who are ready to go to the next level and deploy whitelisting, HIPS can optionally be configured for whitelisting protection. With security model devices, whitelists can be easily maintained and updated, without the extensive management efforts that have plagued whitelisting solutions for years.

All customers with a current support and maintenance contract and licensed to use LDSS version 8.8 and newer will receive HIPS at no additional charge.

LANDesk Network Access Control

LANDesk® Network Access Control (formerly known as LANDesk® Trusted Access) will be removed from LDSS and available separately as an add-on to LDSS. All customers who purchase LANDesk® Security Suite before November 1, 2008 will maintain rights to use NAC. This change will only affect new customers after November 1, 2008

Oracle Support Added to Wake-On-WAN for LANDesk

We have had confirmation that our updates for MarXtar Wake-On-WAN for LANDesk now make it compatible with LANDesk systems running on Oracle.

We've updated the installation media available for download on our website. Thanks to Steve Murphy of Utah State University for your feedback.

Mark Star

Oracle Updates

We have had a few requests now for Oracle versions of our products. We will start with Wake-On-WAN for LANDesk as that has had the most requests. A version is in test at the moment and we will release pending positive feedback from those currently testing it.

I'm an 'expert' as of today

Really pleased today. Since we started this venture I've wanted to give support to the LANDesk community by posting on http://community.landesk.com . Today I got the points needed to classify me as an 'Expert'. A little sad of me but it felt pretty nice.

I'm going to keep being active and aim to get high up on that leaderboard. I got a lot of help from the old forum in my early years and it's nice to be able to give some of that help back.

Our 100th LANDesk Power State Notifier Download

Wow! Looks like we found something you all really like. Today we had our 100th download for Power State Notifier Lite for LANDesk. Wake On WAN for LANDesk isn't far behind either.

I'm really glad so many people have seen the benefit from this tool and we continue to work to bring some even greater capabilities in the near future.

Thanks for all the support and the great feedback.

Mark Star - MarXtar Ltd