We're pleased to announce that Avast Business Cloud Management Console 8.6 has been released! (September 23, 2020)
This release brings our new service offering:
Avast Business Premium Remote Control, smaller stability or quality of life improvements and bug fixes.
In order to enable or purchase the service, you have to open the new UI from the Devices page and then go to Account - Subscriptions. Deployment and connection to devices is then available from the Beta Devices page.
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Console: 8.6
Win Agent: 4.23
Win Antivirus: 20.6
Mac Agent: 6.4
Mac Antivirus: 14.5
New ServiceSingle-tenant and Multi-tenant administrators will now be able to use our new service to help remotely connect to devices and troubleshoot issues more efficiently, there are two versions of Remote Control:
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Basic Remote Controlo This is a free version
o 5 sessions a month, at 5 minutes each (1 concurrent session - means the admin can connect to a device at a time)
o Can be installed on an unlimited number of devices
o Available to additional admins in the Cloud Console
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Premium Remote Controlo Admin can purchase 1 concurrent session for 1, 2 or 3 years (3 and unlimited concurrent sessions coming very soon)
o Can be installed on an unlimited number of devices
o Available to additional admins in the Cloud Console
o Available for purchase through the shopping cart for direct customers
o Available for purchase through our Order Management System for Partners and Distributors
New Feature(s) & Enhancements• With the Avast Business Antivirus Pro Plus 20.7 version release, we will now support a new feature: Password Protection
To support this new feature, we have added policy support under Policy->Windows Workstation as new component "Password Protection" with text "Secure your browser-stored passwords against theft" with an On/Off toggle.
• Existing reports are now available in the new console, so you no longer have to open the old console to check reports, you can simply access existing reports straight from the new console
• We have re-ordered the navigation elements within the console for a better user experience
Resolved issues • Fixed an issue with Device report CSV export not showing devices with no subscription assigned to them
• Fixed an issue with Remote Control tooltip text
• Fixed an issue with Remote Control column filtering on the devices page (Unavailable and Available)
• Fixed an issue with Remote Control promotion page showing for all consoles types
• Fixed some cosmetic width spacing issues on the device dashboard and sorting of devices
• Fixed an issue with Remote Control column not showing by default with or without a subscription
• Fixed an issue with deleting a policy with an error message
Known issuesCBC-8636 Internal Server error when opening custom policies
CBC-9920 Multiple email notifications for one threat event are generated
CBC-10503 False protection components disabled alerts
CBC-10590 SBR: Communication layer error
CBC-10901 New device in installing status appearing in the console
CBC-11256 Devices not following assigned policy
CBC-13059 Subscribe more device doesn’t work
Avast Business Cloud Management Console 8.6