Symantec ALTIRIS IT MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 MR2 - RELEASE NOTES Release Note page 8

8 IT Management Suite 7.0 MR2 Release Notes
Fixed Issues in this Release
Upgrade
Upgrading the Symantec Management Agent on managed computers
Fixed Issues in this Release
For more information, see Installing the Symantec Management Platform products
(knowledge base article 45732).
You can upgrade this product from ITMS 7.0 by using the Symantec Installation
Manager.
In the Symantec Installation Manager, on the Product Updates page, you see the
available MRs for all of the components of ITMS. Installing MRs is optional. You
can choose to install one or more MRs. If you select the ITMS product, all
component MRs are installed.
Note, that upgrading from ITMS 6.x to ITMS 7.0 MR2 is not supported.
After installing MR2, you must make sure that all managed computers have the
latest version of the Symantec Management Agent.You do this by enabling the
policy to upgrade the Symantec Management Agent.
To upgrade the Symantec Management Agent on managed computers
1 In the Symantec Management Console, do one of the following:
On the Actions menu, click Agents/Plug-ins > Rollout Agents/Plug-ins.
On the Settings menu, click All Settings. In the left pane, click
Agents/Plug-ins.
2 In the left pane, click Altiris Agent.
3 Click Windows.
4
Click the Altiris Agent for Windows - Upgrade policy.
5 On the plug-in upgrade page, turn on the policy.
At the upper right of the page, click the colored circle, and then click On.
6 Click Save changes.
7 Repeat for the UNIX/Linux/Mac agent.
The following chapters list the new features of this release, things to know about
in this release, and previous issues that were fixed in this release.