1E Platform 9.0 release notes

Platform

  • New supported platform components:

    • MECM 2203, 2211

    • SQL Server 2022

  • Support dropped for the following:

    • SQL Server 2016 SP3

    • Patch Success (also no dependency on Business Intelligence and Microsoft SSAS)

    • Solaris

  • Consumers can now support more than one application.

  • TLS 1.3 is supported when available.

  • Resources used by instructions and policies are now stored in the Master database (instead of the server file system) alongside the instruction and policy definitions and served on-demand via the Background Channel.

  • Rebranding:

    • New 1E logo on the platform and components

    • New light appearance to fit with the new 1E brand

  • Authentication changes

    • IdP is now a requirement. Currently, the following are supported:

      • Microsoft Entra ID

      • Okta

    • On-premises Active Directory (AD) is no longer directly supported; however, a new Authentication Proxy is required to support the following 1E features that do not yet support IdP:

      • Content Distribution Branch Tools

      • 1E Toolkit

      • Shopping Integration

      • NightWatchman Integration

  • The following additional properties are sent by the 1E Client as part of its online message to the platform:

    • BatteryHealth

    • BiosVersion

    • FreeOsDiskSpaceMb

    • NativeDiskEncryption

    • OUPath

  • SLA Inventory

    • Improved performance and merging of the following with the Basic Inventory Consolidation:

      • Virtual Info Consolidation

      • Clustering Info Consolidation

      • User Info Consolidation

    • The following additional parameters are fetched by the 1E Platform (formerly Tachyon) Connector:

      • CpuArchitecture

      • CpuType

      • OuPath

      • Timezone

1E Server Setup

  • New prerequisites checked:

    • ASP.NET Core Framework 6.0

    • WebSocket in IIS

  • Telemetry:

    • Optional disabling of Telemetry

    • The default value for Telemetry has changed from Limited to Full.

1E Product Pack Deployment Tool (PPDT)

  • No changes.

Consumer applications for 1E 9.0

AppClarity

  • Users no longer need to manually edit or evaluate Reclaim Policies after extending a Version, Title, or Edition list in the 1E Catalog.

  • Report Reclaim Usage is now run automatically following the Basic Inventory Consolidation.

Application Migration

  • No features or feature changes added in this release, but hotfixes from previous versions are included.

Endpoint Automation

  • Rule usage history is preserved when rules are edited. Refer to Rule revisions.

Content Distribution

  • No features of feature changes were added in this release, but any hotfixes from previous versions are included.

Patch Success

  • No longer provided as part of the platform release. This product has been superseded by Patch Insights.

Patch Insights

  • 1E Patch Insights provides an overview of the last-mile patching required on your environment. It is centered around the final stages of your monthly patching process, with a view to allowing you to identify the problematic devices in your environment. At this point of its development, Patch Insights does not remediate the cause of patch failures, or the inability to reach devices, but it gives a view of these. Once manual remediation action has been taken, the ability exists within Patch Insights to redeploy the failed patches using the power of 1E.

  • Patch Insights from 1E is an important part of keeping your devices secure, performant, and healthy. This has become even more important than ever with hybrid work becoming the norm and employees embracing remote work. Patch Insights brings visibility, clarity, and peace of mind around device patching. Research and testing is made easier with comprehensive device and patch views. Vulnerabilities can be detected and closed in real-time using the patch-view dashboard and the power of Actions via Endpoint Troubleshooting.

Endpoint Troubleshooting

  • No features or feature changes added in this release, but any hotfixes from previous versions are included.

Endpoint Automation

  • 1E Experience Analytics has been extended to provide experience information for macOS devices in addition to Windows devices. To support this, Experience Analytics shows a variety of indicators on whether experience information is coming from macOS or Windows. Refer to macOS in 1E Experience Analytics.

Dashboards

  • It's important to measure or evaluate the way that your organization is performing in terms of your employee Digital Experience (DEX). This measure lets you know how good your employee day-to-day experience is of your company's IT systems, how happy they are working in your company, and how likely they are to stay with you.

  • In many organizations, the ability to gain insight into your DEX KPIs involves gathering data from multiple applications and departments, then analyzing and correlating it to determine if the user experience and sentiment are trending up or down. A bigger challenge is understanding if the tools and processes you have in place are improving end-user productivity.

  • This 1E Labs release is now available by default in 1E 9.0.