With Windows 8.1 now released and some companies adopting the new operating system, users of IT Analytics for ITMS can gauge preparedness in their environment through a similar dashboard already out-of-the-box. If you currently have IT Analytics for ITMS installed, you may already be familiar with the Windows 7 Readiness Dashboard. The criteria behind this report is essentially the same as what would be necessary for a Windows 8.1 Readiness Dashboard, since per Microsoft's website Windows 7 requirements are similar to Windows 8.1 requirements.
All that really needs to be done to convert this to Windows 8.1 is change the title of the dashboard and the links to the underlying details reports. In this article, we will walk you through cloning, renaming and editing the Windows 7 Readiness Dashboard to provide a separate dashboard for Windows 8.1. Alternatively, if you want to simply import the Windows 8.1 Readiness reports, you can use the attached .rdl files in the zip file at the bottom. NOTE: If your data source was setup as anything other than 'IT Analytics' when you installed the product, you will need to modify the .rdl files to match your data source name.
Rather than overwriting the existing Windows 7 Readiness Dashboard, as a best practice it is recommended that you clone the dashboard and rename it first through Report Builder.
To link the two Windows 8.1 reports we just created, we need to link the Windows 8.1 Readiness Dashboard to the Windows 8.1 Readiness Details though the slices of the pie chart. Report Builder provides an easy way to do this:
The last step is to add the new reports to the Symantec Management Console so that they can be viewed.