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Release Notes Initial Content (Version 7.1.6)
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Tanium Initial Content 7.1.6.0080
- Tanium Initial Content AD 7.1.6.0061
- Tanium Initial Content FileSystem 7.1.6.0061
- Tanium Initial Content Hardware 7.1.6.0062
- Tanium Initial Content MSSQL 7.1.6.0061
- Tanium Initial Content Network 7.1.6.0061
- Tanium Initial Content OS 7.1.6.0061
- Tanium Initial Content Registry 7.1.6.0061
- Tanium Initial Content Security 7.1.6.0061
- Tanium Initial Content Software 7.1.6.0061
- Tanium Initial Content Tags 7.1.6.0061
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The previous version can be found here: Release Notes Initial Content (Version 7.1.5)
Enhancements:
- All Windows packages now use "//E:VBScript" to prevent problems where .vbs has been disassociated from the script engine
- Added new chassis types available in Windows 10 and higher to "Chassis Type" sensor
- Added support to the "Firewall Status" sensor on Windows to check the current GPO pushed values
- Refactored In Subnet sensors to use same logic at Discover for determining netmask information
- Enhanced Computer Serial Number on Solaris to use smbios as a backup source of data
- Improved tmp file usages for all non-Windows sensors that use tmp files
- Changed "Distribute Hardware Tools" to use a new url path on content.tanium.com
- All .vbs files in packages are now signed
- All packages in IC, which are appropriate to do such, run on 7.2 clients within a process group
- Unified all sensors using dmidecode on Linux
- Updated to Detect Endpoint Tools 3.3.31
- Added new Content Set "Client Management", and moved sensors and packages focused on getting and setting features of the client to that Content Set
- Added new "Modify Tanium Client Setting [Non-Windows]" package to mirror package available for Windows endpoints
Bug Fixes:
- Resolved issue where "Tanium PowerShell Execution Policy" responses would sometimes include a BOM as the first character in the string
- Resolved issue where "CPU Details" would return an incorrect number of cores on Linux
- Resolved issue where "CPU by Process"'s column for CPU percentage was not set as a numerical value
- Resolved issue where "File Version" would sometimes return incorrect results on Windows 10
- Resolved issue where "FileVault Details" did not return correct information on Mac OS 10.13+ with APFS filesystems
- Resolved issue where "Tanium Client Neighborhood" did not return correct values on 7.2 clients on Non-Windows platforms
- Resolved issue where "Reboot Required" would return "False" incorrectly on RHEL with pending kernel updates
- Resolved issue where the "Registry - Set Value" package would not work correctly with binary value types
- Resolved issue where "Listen Ports" sensor might leave tmp files in the Tanium Client directory
- Resolved issue with "Registry Value Data" sensor description
- Resolved issue with "Uptime" sensor's data type was string, and not numeric
- Resolved issue with "PST Information" returning an error on some versions of Office
- Resolved issue with "Installed Application Exists" on Linux returning incorrect results when the default language is Japanese
- Resolved issue where "Running Processes Memory Usage" could fail if the process was using over 1G of memory
- Resolved issue where "Installed Application Version" could fail to return results on Linux if package name contained a "-" character
- Resolved issue where "SQL Server CPU Consumption" was not using columns for sensor results
Added Sensors or Sensor Implementations:
- Installed Store Apps: New sensor to return applications installed via the Microsoft Store on Windows
- Tanium Client API Downloads: New sensor to return the urls currently requested via the Tanium Client API, available for all platforms.
- Online Random Sample: New sensor that allows randomly returning "True" or "False" from all endpoints at a percentage given, available on all platforms
- Is DC: New sensor that returns "True" if the Windows machine is a DC, available on Windows platforms
- Domain Role: New sensor that returns the role of the machine in the Domain, available on Windows platforms
- Revision of CPU: Added MacOS implementation
- OS Boot Time: Added MacOS implementation
- Hyperthreading Enabled: Added MacOS implementation
- Local Printers: Added MacOS implementation
- System Disk Free Space: Added Linux and MacOS implementations
Removed Sensors or Content:
Additional Information
Known Issues and Workarounds
- Because the behavior of 'Custom Tag Exists' has changed, saved questions and scheduled actions depending on 'Custom Tag Exists' will need to be recreated. Please consult your TAM for assistance in moving to the new sensor format.
- Because the archiving of Saved Questions within Initial Content has been disabled, users who wish to continue the archiving of these questions should re-enable archiving after import.
- With the addition of a default value from the Custom Tags sensor when there are no tags set, users can now target machines without tags directly. However, caution should be taken to make sure that this new result value does not bring any unintended machines into action targeting.
Additional Information
This release is a parallel release of combined content for 6.5, which can be found here: Release Notes Initial Content (Version 6.5.16)