Specified download location on the Managed Delivery Setting page

If a download location was specified on the Managed Delivery Settings page, a Managed Software Delivery downloaded the software package to the root of the folder.

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Updated detection rule of a software resource not used with Managed Software Delivery 

If a software resource had a detection rule that did not work and you replaced it with a valid detection rule, a Managed Software Delivery that used the software resource continued to use the detection rule that did not work.

Managed Software Delivery on a Danish XP computer

When a Managed Software Delivery task was added to the client config policy XML, the Altiris Agent crashed on a Danish XP computer.

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A Managed Software Delivery policy performed remediation every 5 minutes within a maintenance window

If a Managed Software Delivery policy that was scheduled to run once ran successfully outside of a maintenance window, then the policy performed remediation every 5 minutes within the maintenance window.

The option to start a Managed Software Delivery policy at the startup of a managed computer did not work

With a Managed Software Delivery policy, if you selected the scheduling option At computer startup, the policy could run before the restart of the managed computer.

Software Discovery failed to load into the database

If software used a blank space for the company name instead of leaving the company name blank, the Software Discovery data could not be loaded into the database. 

Software Discovery on 64-bit computers

On 64-bit computers, Software Discovery did not discover software that is 64-bit.

Execution of MSIs after initial roll out could hang

If you scheduled to run an MSI (either directly or wrapped in an EXE) with Quick Delivery or Managed Software Delivery, the initial rollout was successful, but subsequent executions of the MSI would hang intermittently.

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Unable to change the Match criteria of Registry Key Value rule of a software resource

When creating a Registry Key Value rule for a software resource, if you set the Match criteria to Substring or Entire String, subsequent changes to the Match criteria were not saved.

Create Installed Software Filter action returns all computers

If you select a software resource in the Software Catalog and select the Create Installed Software Filter action, the resulting filter returns all computers whether or not they have the software.

Unable to define a software package that contained a very large file

In the Software Catalog, if you defined a package that contained a very large file, ASP.NET could throw an exception timeout. A Timeout option was added to the Software Library Configuration page. This option lets you specify the number of seconds to wait before a server timeout occurs when you manage a package in the Software Library.

Links to the source files of a downloaded software package did not work

On a managed computer with the Windows 2000 operating system, the links to the source of a downloaded software package did not work.

Unable to run a software package from the server with Quick Delivery

With a Quick Delivery, the Advanced option Run from the server if bandwidth is above does not work.

Terminology

A list of the terminology used in Software Management Framework.

Software Discovery policy enabled by default

By default, the Software Discovery policy is scheduled to run two times per week on all the computers that contain the Software Management Framework agent.

Symbolic links are lost if TAR/TAR.GZ/TAR.Z packages are unzipped or repackaged on a Windows computer

To preserve symbolic links, do not unzip and repackage these packages on a non-UNIX computer.

Symantec Software Librarian security role

If a user is just a member of the Symantec Software Librarian security role, they are then denied access to the Symantec Management Console.

A Quick Delivery task returns a failure message although it runs successfully

If a Quick Delivery task times out before a maintenance window opens, it returns a failure message even though it runs successfully in the maintenance window.

Unable to import or add packages to the Software Library

A Detailed Export of a software resource that has dependencies fails

If you perform a Detailed Export of a software resource that has dependencies and select the dependency options, the export fails.

A Managed Software Delivery policy that is scheduled to run when computer starts up can fail

With a Managed Software Delivery policy, if you select the scheduling option At computer startup, the policy could fail to run when the computer restarts.

A Managed Software Delivery policy that is scheduled to run once runs whenever the user logs on

A Managed Software Delivery policy that targets a user and is scheduled to run once runs each time the targeted user logs on.

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Inventory rules are not replicated with a software resource

If a software resource has an inventory rule, when that software resource is replicated to another Notification Server, the inventory rule is not replicated. A software resource inventory rule can be a detection rule or an applicability rule.

Replicated Managed Software Delivery policy fails

A replicated Managed Software Delivery policy fails to execute when the installation file is an MSI and resource and item replication rules are used to replicate the software resource and the policy.

The package and command lines of a Package Delivery task are not replicated with the task

When a Package Delivery task is replicated to another Notification Server, the package and command line associated with the Package Delivery task are not replicated.

Location of the folder that contains settings for the Software Catalog and Software Library

In the Software Catalog and Software Library Settings folder, you can access different pages to configure the settings for the Software Catalog and the Software Library. You access this folder from the Settings menu. The documentation sometimes give the path as Solution Settings > Software Management > Software Catalog and Software Library Settings. The correct path is Software > Software Catalog and Software Library Settings. 

You cannot edit a Patch Management Linux rule in the Software Catalog

Normally, you can edit Patch Management rules in the Software Catalog by double-clicking the software resource, clicking the Rules tab, and then clicking the rule to edit. However, when you try to edit a Linux-based rule for Patch Management, an exception error appears.

A data provider task is not identified by its description

If you create a new schedule for a data provider task that includes a description and schedule the task to run in the future, the task is not identified by the description until the task runs.

Software releases only appear in the Software Catalog in English

In the Software Catalog, for filtered views (for example, Deliverable Software > Releases) or any custom Software Catalog view, the software resources only appear in English.

Data not sent to new server

If the Software Management Framework agent is redirected to a new server, it does not resend data to the server.

Replication of Quick Delivery task

Unable to replicate a Quick Delivery task.

The auto generated TAR extraction command line does not work on some UNIX computers

The command line generator creates the following command line for TAR archives: "tar xvfz <package>". This command will not run on some UNIX and Linux computers that do not support the "z" option. For these computers, create the command line manually.