New Business products v.7 update available!

Hi all,

I‘m glad to announce a new update of avast! 7 Business products!
This includes new versions of:

  • AEA(avast! Enterprise Administration console)
  • SOA (Small Office Administration console)
  • avast! managed and unmanaged (EP/EPP/EPS/EPSP) clients
  • standalone avast! Email and File server security

AEA (ver. 7.0.223.292):
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_enterprise_epsp.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_enterprise_eps.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_enterprise_epp.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_enterprise_ep.exe

SOA (ver. 1.2.2.28):
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_console_ep.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_console_eps.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_console_epp.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_console_epsp.exe

Managed clients (ver. 7.0.1455.186):
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_ep.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_eps.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_epp.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_epsp.exe

avast! Email and File server security (ver. 7.0.1455.186):
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_srvemail.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_srvfile.exe

List of major fixes, that are included in the latest update:

AEA:

  • Fixed Mirror VPS updates + 2nd lvl Mirror issues
  • Exclusion list capacity has been extended
  • All reports are now generated correctly (no missing data issue)
  • Sandbox settings are now properly applied to the client (there was a problem with subgroup processing)

SOA:

  • Fixed secure connection (over HTTPS) to the administration console (after upgrade from an older version)
  • Multiple fixes in command line supporting tools
  • License issues fixes when running both consoles on the same computer
  • Fixes related to certificate creation

Managed clients+standalone server security:

  • Missing avast! Components are now properly installed when upgraded from BP to EP
  • avast! Exchange plugin is now properly installed (fixed MS Exchange IS service crashes)
  • Fixed File system shield status + other components statuses
  • Licensing issues, older licenses may not be accepted by program

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions. :wink:

Martin

Thank you Martin (-:

What is the correct procedure to update AEA?

update is still same like ADNM from add and remove program I guess, but there is problem when doing the wizard for upgrade.
here I attach the message

I just ignored the message and select No, the installation goes normal, AEA and EAS running well after upgrade, and new client deploy was update and running well also.

Upgrade the endpoint from AEA with push upgrade was successfully but the endpoint program wasn’t upgraded only the VPS update was successful.

Mostly complaining from customers (they are really need this feature) are using AEA is why the Client can do the uninstall and no password protect the uninstall like ADNM, and for me this not a minor issue but major issue. For the administrator mean they not have any power to protect the client to do uninstall the avast! Enpoint application.

i just run the downloaded installer, choose to update and it was done in a few seconds.

I didnt get any notification like SPI tho.

I am still update UPSET tho that i still cant choose my own MIRROR location, actually its p*ssing me off a lot

What’s the limit for the exclusions now?
We have tried to add a list of exclusions with roughly 1349 chars in total and a lot of them were stripped.

Also can you confirm that adding the exclusions in the Custom Ini Settings text, will add them in FS Shield? See examples:

[AdnmSettings]
fs--Exclusions=<RWX>C:\Folder\File.ext;<RW>*.db; etc..

Currently the exclusion limit is set to 1000 chars.

Thank you for your reply Martin.

Is it hard-coded into the Management server or the value column in the Property table of the database has this limit?

@MarkVi why can we still not choose ourself where we want the mirror to put the mirror files? This is an Enterprise product, not a home product. In SBC this option was finally, after a nice discussion, build in and now its ripped out again… (technically it never was in this console product since its the revamped version of ADNM)

This really is non-compliant with IT policies in companies that state that USER data is not supposed to the placed on the Windows installation partition and program data is supposed to be in the program files directory. Disk mirrors are part of this equation too!

@WPN, I have test this also on win2008 R2 the notification was not appear.

@MarkVi, any future request allow? please suggestion to put the password protection on the Endpoint when the user want to remove the avast endpoint from the user computer. Like WPN said unprotected application was also not compliant in corporate and Enterprise company.

Hmm,

I just ran the latest SOA (Small Office Administration console) update and it failed. Although, it said no changes had been made to my system.

Unfortunately, it has completely removed my existing SOA console. So, I currently have nothing on my server. I will have to reinstall the previous version and hope that the data is still there.

Not impressed.

Update: I can confirm that the entire installation folder (including the SQL information) has been removed as a result of this bug fix update. I did run the backup routine from within the console (before running the update), but I suspect the backup information was stored within the same folder (and is also gone).

I had that too. First installation fails, if you run the installation a second time it succeeds …

Thank you. It worked second time and the installer manager to find the database.

Regards,
Stephen

Please Studio_two, can you put the procedure to upgrade the SOA?.
I affraid to start the procedure and loose my data.
Thanks

wimmme, studio_two

Could you please send us the troubleshooting package from the SOA? Please send it to my e-mail address: chytil@avast.com

Thanks,

Petr

Well, the second time I ran the upgrade it worked!

I’m not sure what went wrong on the first attempt. However, the SOA was no longer listed within Add / Remove Programs (Windows Server 2003), so I was worried that I had also lost the database AND the backup.

When I ran the upgrade again (using the custom option), it found the original database (db.sdf) and then completed without error. I can confirm that all the existing workstations / servers connected to the console.

Do you still want me to send the troubleshooting package, as everything now seems to be ok?

Kind Regards,
Stephen

Hello,

What is your current version?

My update was from 1.2.2.8 => 1.2.2.28: http://www.avast.com/release-history-console

Regards,
Stephen

Hello studio_two,

yes please, if you could send me the troubleshooting package, we would try to figure out what was wrong during the previous installation. There may be still some logs from the previous run in the package.

Thanks,

Petr

@MarkVi how about my question about protection for doing Un-install, could I set the password for protected the un-install?