I attended training a few weeks back on the new platform and it was suggested by the trainer to post enhancement requests on this site. Here goes:
PcAnywhere - While it is nice that this is included now with DS 7.1, the speed at which it works is far slower than the remote control in the 6.9 console. The biggest pain is having to enter a username and password when connecting to a machine. It is essential that we have a way to store these credentials to be used as a default system wide for using PcAnywhere on all of our clients (same username and password will provide access to all machines).
Power Control - When right clicking on a machine, power on, power off, and restart should be options. iLO power management is there, but this is useless for almost all of our machines - we are managing clients, not servers with this software).
Status of Computers - There is no way to tell if the machines are on or off. In the 6.x console, you could easily tell if the machines were on or off. It is difficult to know if a power control task needs to be deployed if you don't know the state of the machine. Even my Sophos Endpoing Protection web console lets me determine that quickly by looking at the icon for the machine.
PcAnywhere / Remote Control - With the old DS 6.x remote, you could remote control several machines at the same time using the console of a single client. This is critical in a lab environment, as you can make a configuration change on 30 machines by only having to perform the task on the screen of a single station.
Honestly, if the 6.9 dagent would have worked to remote control Windows 7 machines without them being logged in, I would've stayed with 6.9. It is faster to use in managing several hundred machines. These enhancements are definitely needed in an enterprise environment.