Symantec Endpoint
Virtualization 6.1 SP8 MP1
Release Notes
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About Symantec Endpoint Virtualization 6.1 SP8 MP1
■ What's new in 6.1 SP8 MP1
■ Supported Platforms
■ System requirements
■ Fixed issues
■ Known Issues
■ User's and Administrator's Guides
About Symantec Endpoint Virtualization 6.1 SP8 MP1
This document contains release information about the release of Symantec Endpoint Virtualization.
This release includes information about the following products:
■ Symantec Workspace Streaming build: 6.4.0.591
■ Symantec Workspace Virtualization build: 6.4.0.1711
■ Symantec Virtual Composer build: 6.4.0.591
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What's new in 6.1 SP8 MP1
Readdressing the primary server in SWS Client
The SWS client now supports readdressing the primary server. This feature allows clients to pin packages to an external server address instead of the primary server. To activate this feature you must add the following entry to the AppStreamCfg.txt client configuration file:
ALLOW_SERVER_READDRESSING=true
This change causes the SWS client to pay attention to how the server is configured for its external address. Any Future attempts to contact the server through the re-mapped address, have the client use the external address until the
AppMgrService is restarted.
Pinning an address to the returned external address by the server is only valid for the lifetime of the AppMgrService.exe instance. It is not persistent across restarts of the service. A different external address can be used for the primary the next time the AppMgrService is started if necessary.
Use this functionality only if the primary server address for the client represents a load balancer address and there is no server for its external address.
Note:The backup server list for the external server group should contain the global (primary) address for failover using the global load balancer.
Supported Platforms
Streaming and Virtualization endpoint operating systems
Table 1-1 Streaming and Virtualization endpoint operating systems Operating systems
Edition
■ Microsoft Windows 7
■ Microsoft Windows Server 2008
■ Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 64-bit
■ Microsoft Windows 7
■ Microsoft Windows Vista SP2
■ Microsoft Windows XP SP3 32-bit
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Streaming Server operating systems
Table 1-2 Streaming Server operating systems Operating systems Edition
■ Microsoft Windows Server 2008
■ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
■ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 or later 64-bit
■ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP1 or later
■ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 or later 32-bit
Streaming databases
Table 1-3 Streaming databases Editions
■ SQL Express
■ SQL 2008 SP1 64-bit
■ Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4 or later
■ Oracle 10g and 11g, RAC
Symantec Virtual Composer
Table 1-4 Symantec Virtual Composer Operating systems Edition ■ Windows 7 ■ Windows Vista SP2 64-bit ■ Windows 7 ■ Windows XP SP3 ■ Windows Vista SP2 32-bit
System requirements
The following tables contain system requirements for the endpoints, Streaming Server, and Virtual Composer:
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Table 1-5 Endpoint requirements Requirement System component
Same as recommended by the operating system and installed applications.
System Processor
Same as recommended by the operating system and installed applications.
System memory
50 MB of free disk space plus additional space as required by installed applications.
Free disk space
Table 1-6 Streaming Server requirements Requirement System component
Minimum 1 GHz of processor capability. System Processor
2-GB memory minimum. System memory
2 GB of free disk space. In addition, the applications to be uploaded on the server require three times their space. Free disk space
Table 1-7 Virtual Composer requirements Requirement System component
Same as recommended by the operating system. System Processor
1-GB memory minimum. Additional space is required according to the recommendations of the applications that you want to package.
System memory
30 MB of free disk space, plus three times the size of the package.
Free disk space
Fixed issues
The following are fixed issues in this release:
Table 1-8 Symantec Workspace Virtualization Fixed Issues Identifier Description
NA Resolved a high CPU usage and performance issue after an IE8 layer is activated.
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Table 1-8 Symantec Workspace Virtualization Fixed Issues (continued) Identifier
Description
NA Resolved issue where Windows Search (SearchIndexer.exe) terminated unexpectedly due to the SWV driver.
NA Resolved issue where OnPostImport failed to find cmd.exe or regedit.exe when the full path is not specified. This behavior is different from the behavior in SWV 6.1 SP4.
NA Resolved issue where after an update to SWV 6.4.1359, removing a user profile caused errors.
NA Resolved issue with duplicate audio mixer keys getting created.
Table 1-9 Symantec Workspace Streaming Fixed Issues Identifier Description
NA Resolved issue where 100% blocks got collected in the desktop machine when "Offline enabled if Laptop" is set in the C&M.
NA Resolved issue with LDAP Timeouts. The DA lost
connectivity to the LDAP servers. The 5000ms hard coded timeout was removed.
NA Resolved issue where the LDAP status showed down after AD changes were applied, and LDAP was configured with SSL.
NA Console shows wrong info about the file space availability is resolved.
NA Resolved and issue where "Received WinHTTP error: 12002" and then a fatal error message appears in the log "Could not get ProvisionInfoRPMsg Reply".
NA Resolved issue where the GetPackageID method fails when the package name contains either a leading or a trailing space character.
NA Resolved an issue where you needed to patch vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat Web Server before going into production.
NA Resolved an issue where after SP8 Upgrades, some Apps would not stream unless they were run from the portal first.
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Table 1-9 Symantec Workspace Streaming Fixed Issues (continued) Identifier Description
NA Resolved an issue where not all offline packages showing up in SWS agent GUI
NA Resolved provisioning issues user names contained the "@" character.WSAPI:When passing a list of apps to be unprovisioned (method removeProvisions) for a user with username containing "@", it seems that the user loses all his provisioned apps instead of removing all the passed in the list.
NA Resolved issue where Windows 7 agents got stuck at a "please wait"screen after restart from upgrade from SP7 and HIPS was installed.
NA Resolved and issue when the SDK web method
changeNameAndUserContact is used to modify the user data, the user provisioning data is not visible.
NA Resolved issue where your received the message "Console errors managing packages – NullPointerException."
NA Resolved issue where you could not login to console with a network ID
NA Resolved issue where the application failed to launch with errors "10048, 10043, 10080 client errors - Oracle Unique Constraint error."
NA Resolved issue to avoid "Error Code 10020 : Insufficient disk space to stream application."
NA Resolved issue where pre-populated apps after the client installation showed as 0% cached. They could not be launched
NA Resolved issue with the following recurring client error in the logs: "created outside the AppStream file system" and "oli checksum".
NA Resolved issue where the AppMgrService memory usage kept growing until the computer was restarted.
NA Resolved issue with
“javax.jms.JMSSecurityException:JMSSecurityException in GetPackage WSAPI method”.
Symantec Endpoint Virtualization 6.1 SP8 MP1 Release Notes Fixed issues
Table 1-9 Symantec Workspace Streaming Fixed Issues (continued) Identifier Description
NA Resolved issue where users in multiple domains got a blue screen in RegHook.sys when logging off and back on again.
NA Resolved issue where the DA name field on the create DA component screen truncated at 32 characters.
Known Issues
The following are known issues in this Release: Table 1-10 Known issues
Article ID Issue
NA Due to a update of a data protocol there is a incompatibility between servers where a server running SP8 cannot correctly communicate with another server running SP7. When migrating to SP8 all servers in the group need to be upgraded to SP8. It is also recommended that clients hitting a SP8 server also be upgraded to the SP8 version.
User's and Administrator's Guides
The following table contains links to the latest documentation PDFs on the Web: Table 1-11 User's and Administrator's Guides
Guide Product
http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5340
Symantec Workspace Streaming Admin Guide
http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5339
Symantec Workspace Virtualization User's Guide
http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5341
Symantec Virtual Composer User's Guide
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