deviceTRUST 20.1.110

This release includes new features and bug fixes to the deviceTRUST Console, Host and Client for Microsoft Windows. For upgrading users, please refer to Compatibility for important changes in this release.

The deviceTRUST 20.1.110 update includes an additional backwards compatibility change for the host and client when using the DEVICE_WINDOWS_UAC property, and a fix to ensure that the console displays clearer error messages when working with properties from 19.4 that have been removed. No changes were made to the Group Policy Administrative Templates within this update.

New Map Drive task
New Shortcut task
New Windows Firewall task
New Windows Policy task
New Custom Properties setting
Licensing, Managed Users, Persistence and System Messages moved from ADMX into the deviceTRUST Console
Only read properties used within contexts and actions
Enhancements to Security Product properties
Enhancements to Network properties
Enhancements to Location properties
Enhancements to Windows properties
Other new Properties
Citrix Workspace Per-User Installer
Other minor changes
Bug Fixes
Compatibility

New Map Drive task

We’ve added a new Map Drive task which allows control for the contextual mapping and unmapping of network paths. Much like our Map Printer task, this has built in control for failover network paths in the event that a network path is unavailable.

New Shortcut task

The new Shortcut task can be used to create and delete shortcuts to both executables and URL’s. This new task works great with our Microsoft AppLocker or the new Windows Firewall task, by automatically creating shortcuts whenever the target file or URL is available to the user.

New Windows Firewall task

The new Windows Firewall task can be used to contextually add Windows Firewall rules for the logged in user, controlling access to network ports and addresses.

New Windows Policy task

We’ve added a new Windows Policy task that can deny access to removable storage devices.

New Custom Properties setting

The new Custom Properties setting allows properties to be defined within a PowerShell, VBScript or Batch file. This script is executed during Logon and Reconnect before the context is defined. This allows information previously inaccessible to deviceTRUST, such as information returned by a web request or a SQL query to be used to define context values.

Licensing, Managed Users, Persistence and System Messages moved from ADMX into the deviceTRUST Console

We’re incrementally moving features from the ADMX Administrative Templates into the deviceTRUST Console. As part of the 20.1 release, we’ve moved Licensing, Managed Users, Persistence and System Messages into the Settings tab of the deviceTRUST Console.

Only read properties used within contexts and actions

deviceTRUST now only reads properties from the host or client that are used within the deviceTRUST Console, removing the need to enable or disable each individual property. This is an important enhancement for simplicity, but also makes it much easier to respect the users privacy by not requesting more information than is required to enforce the necessary business rules. If additional properties are required, perhaps for auditing purposes, then these properties can still be enabled within the ADMX Administrative Templates.

Enhancements to Security Product properties

The Security Product properties have changed format, and we’ve added a couple of layers of caching to ensure an improved end user experience.

The changes to the security product properties are as follows:

HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_ANTIVIRUS has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_ANTIVIRUS_NAME has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_ANTIVIRUS_TIMESTAMP has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_ANTISPYWARE has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_ANTISPYWARE_NAME has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_ANTISPYWARE_TIMESTAMP has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_FIREWALL has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_FIREWALL_NAME has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_COUNT has been added, and is set to the number of security products.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_X_CATEGORY has been added, and is set to the category of security product, such as Firewall or AntiVirus.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_X_NAME has been added, and is set to the name of the security product.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_X_STATUS has been added, and is set to Active, Out-Of-Date or Inactive depending upon the state of the security product.
HOST or DEVICE_SECURITYPRODUCT_X_TIMESTAMP has been added, and is set to the timestamp of the security product.

This change to an indexed property enables context to perform conditions such as ensuring that the status of a specific product is Active, something that was not possible with the previously delimited properties.

The security products depend upon the Windows Security Center components, which are often not fully initialised until a few minutes after the OS starts up. deviceTRUST 20.1 now caches the security products during logoff and shutdown, and uses the cache whenever the Windows Security Center has not yet initialised during the first few minutes after computer startup.

In addition, we’ve seen some AntiVirus products temporarily become inactive for a few seconds during an update. To ensure a users access to their session isn’t unnecessarily disrupted, we’ve added an in-memory cache which is used to suppress security products that become temporarily inactive.

Enhancements to Network properties

The Network properties representing the IP address have changed format. The previous HOST or DEVICE_NETWORK_X_IP property contained a combination both the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and also the subnet mask as part of the CIDR notation postfix. Too much information within this single property made it difficult to consume. We’ve also included a new virtual property which identifies whether the network adapter is not attached to a physical device.

The changes to the network properties are as follows:

HOST or DEVICE_NETWORK_X_IP has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_NETWORK_X_IPV4_ENABLED has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_NETWORK_X_IPV6_ENABLED has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_NETWORK_X_IPV4 has been added, and represents a semi-colon separated list of IPv4 addresses bound to the network adapter.
HOST or DEVICE_NETWORK_X_IPV6 has been added, and represents a semi-colon separated list of IPv6 addresses bound to the network adapter.
HOST or DEVICE_NETWORK_X_IPV4_SUBNET has been added, and is set to the IPv4 address masked with the subnet and with the subnet prefix length appended in CIDR notation. For example, an IP address of 192.168.10.12 with subnet 255.255.255.0 will be set to a value of 192.168.10.0/24. This new value becomes an accurate check of whether a device is part of a specific network.
HOST or DEVICE_NETWORK_X_IPV6_SUBNET has been added, and is set to the IPv6 address masked with the subnet and with the subnet prefix length appended in CIDR notation.
HOST or DEVICE_NETWORK_X_VIRTUAL has been added, and represents whether the network adapter is not attached to a physical device.

Enhancements to Location properties

We’ve replaced the previous latitude and longitude with a new position property, and introduced new In Range and Not In Range operators within context conditions. This allows a context to easily determine whether a device is within range to a specific place of work.

The changes to the location properties are as follows:

HOST or DEVICE_LOCATION_LATITUDE has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_LOCATION_LONGITUDE has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_LOCATION_POSITION has been added, and is set to the combination of latitude and longitude, such as “49.8629,8.6203”.

Enhancements to Windows properties

Our previous Windows Update, UAC and Zone Settings properties were built on top of Windows Security Center which is unavailable on Server OS’s. We’ve therefore re-worked these properties in 20.1 removing our dependency on Windows Security Center.

The changes to the Windows properties are as follows:

HOST or DEVICE_WINDOWS_UPDATE has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_WINDOWS_UAC has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_WINDOWS_ZONESETTINGS has been removed.
HOST or DEVICE_WINDOWS_UAC_ENABLED has been added, and is set to true if the User Access Control (UAC) consent prompt is enabled.
HOST or DEVICE_WINDOWS_UAC_POLICY has been added, and defines the User Access Control (UAC) consent prompt policy applied to administrators.

Other new Properties

We’ve added more new properties, including information about the remote device and user attributes queried from Active Directory:

HOST or DEVICE_CERTIFICATE_X_POLICIES - The certificate policies identifying the intended purpose of the certificate.
HOST or DEVICE_CERTIFICATE_X_TPM_KEY_ATTESTATION - Detects the key attestation issuance policies which prove to a CA that the certificate is protected by a trusted TPM.
HOST or DEVICE_OS_STARTUPTIME - The time that the OS started.
HOST or DEVICE_REMOTECONTROL_REMOTE_VERSION - The version number of the remote client on Citrix and VMware only.
HOST or DEVICE_REMOTECONTROL_REMOTE_INSTALLPATH - The installation path of the remote client on Citrix only.
HOST or DEVICE_USER_ATTRIBUTE_COUNT - The number of user attributes read from Active Directory.
HOST or DEVICE_USER_ATTRIBUTE_X_NAME - The name of a user attribute read from Active Directory.
HOST or DEVICE_USER_ATTRIBUTE_X_VALUE - The value of a user attribute read from Active Directory.
HOST_DEVICETRUST_LICENSE_VALID - Determines whether the deviceTRUST license is valid.
HOST_DEVICETRUST_LICENSE_UNIT - The deviceTRUST licensable unit, e.g. a User or Device.
HOST_DEVICETRUST_LICENSE_TYPE - The deviceTRUST license type.
HOST_DEVICETRUST_LICENSE_COUNT - The number of deviceTRUST licensed units.
HOST_DEVICETRUST_LICENSE_ISSUEDATE - The date that the deviceTRUST license was issued.
HOST_DEVICETRUST_LICENSE_EXPIRYDATE - The date that the deviceTRUST license expires.

Citrix Workspace Per-User Installer

The deviceTRUST Client remains an all users installer, however if Citrix Workspace has been installed as a per user installer, we now correctly register the deviceTRUST virtual channel.

Other minor changes

The Deny Access task is now prioritised based on the action priority, action name and then finally the sequence position, matching the location that it appears within the deviceTRUST Console. This ensures that the message that appears to the user can be easily anticipated in situations where multiple deny access tasks are executed.
The Deny Access task can now deny access to administrative users logged into the console session.
Added support for No TLS encryption within the Send Mail task.
The deviceTRUST Host service restart policy has been reduced from 30 seconds to 5 seconds.
The deviceTRUST Host will now relaunch tasks filtered by a context change on service restart.
The Microsoft AppLocker timeout has been removed from ADMX and added to the Microsoft AppLocker task.
Added a policy Remoting protocols that deviceTRUST will use when attempting to establish properties from the remote device which allows individual protocols to be enabled or disabled.
Multiple printers can now be mapped or set as default by supplying comma separated lists of printers within the Printer Mapping task.
Environment variables are now automatically expanded when used within any of the tasks.
Added a new policy to toggle Location and Whois for users that are internal, i.e. not accessing through a gateway on Citrix or VMware Horizon environments.
Added a policy Remove write access to deviceTRUST Policy for Local Administrators to remove permissions to the HKLM\Software\Policies\deviceTRUST registry key for local administrators.
Popup messages can now display buttons to launch named trigger sequences.
Added new auditing event ID 17 - UNMANAGED USER when an unmanaged user logs on, and ID 3 - POLICY LOAD when the deviceTRUST Host detects a policy change.

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes to the deviceTRUST Console in 20.1.100

Fixed an issue where pasting into the logical disk identity condition always pasted into the Vendor Id field of a new row. Additionally after pasting empty fields would cause the condition to always fail.
Fixed an issue where where typing within the AppLocker Task’s exceptions field would always create an exception, even if no content was supplied.

Bug Fixes to the deviceTRUST Console in 20.1.110

Fixed an issue after upgrading a 19.4 configuration containing deprecated properties, where it was unclear which specific properties had been deprecated.

Bug Fixes to the deviceTRUST Host in 20.1.100

Fixed an issue where the Template property of Certificates was always blank.
Fixed an issue on VMware Horizon where a black screen could appear when reconnecting to a virtual session.
Fixed an issue on Citrix where a black screen could temporarily occur whilst denying access to a virtual session.
Fixed an issue where a black screen could be shown to the user if access to a session was denied whilst the session was transitioning to the screensaver.
Fixed an issue with the Send Mail task where failure to include the DEVICE_DEVICETRUST_VERSION in the client properties resulted in the email not being sent.
Fixed an issue where Logon system messages longer than 79 characters could cause the host to crash.
Fixed an issue where environment variables to custom processes did not expand when the policy Persist properties to the user environment variables was disabled.
Fixed an issue where enabling or disabling individual users from the location properties did not work.
Fixed an issue where the OS could update the policy whilst the deviceTRUST Host was still reading it, resulting in policies potentially being ineffective.
Fixed an issue where entering comments within the security group conditions would result in failure to detect whether the user was a member of the security group.
Fixed an issue where the Logon Shell Ready would not trigger, and changes to properties would not be detected when using HP Easy Shell.

Bug Fixes to the deviceTRUST Properties (Host & Client) in 20.1.100

Fixed an issue with the Logical Disk’s Hidden property, where the user and machine priority were not combined in the same way as was performed by the OS.
Fixed an issue with the Security Products Firewall status not always being real-time.
Fixed an issue where the Windows properties UAC value was incorrect.
Fixed an issue with inaccurate OS description reported to Citrix session.
Fixed an issue where the Network Gateway Mac included an all zero physical address.

Bug Fixes to the deviceTRUST Properties (Host & Client) in 20.1.110

Added backwards compatibility to the deviceTRUST Host receiving the old format of Windows UAC property from a 19.4 or earlier deviceTRUST Client.
Added backwards compatibility to the deviceTRUST Client to send the old format of Windows UAC property to a 19.4 or earlier deviceTRUST Host.

Compatibility

The deviceTRUST Host 19.4 and earlier releases are not compatible with policies created by the deviceTRUST Console 20.1. It is recommended that the deviceTRUST Host is upgraded before applying any policy changes.

The following changes should be carefully considered before upgrading the deviceTRUST Host:

The deviceTRUST license and managed user list has moved from the ADMX Administrative Templates into the Settings tab within the deviceTRUST Console. If you previously had these policies defined, then you should migrate the settings to the new Licensing Settings:
- Enable deviceTRUST
- Whitelist of users controlled by deviceTRUST
- Blacklist of users not controlled by deviceTRUST
Local administrator users are no longer managed by default. This can be changed by unchecking Do not manage local administrators within the Licensing Settings.
The following policies have been moved from the ADMX Administrative Templates into the new Persistence Settings. If you previously had these policies defined, then you should migrate the settings to the new location:
- Persist properties to a session specific location
- Persist properties to the users registry
- Persist properties to the user environment variable
- Define properties which will not be written to the Windows Event Log
The following policies have been moved from the ADMX Administrative Templates into the new System Messages Settings. If you previously had these policies defined, then you should migrate the settings to the new location:
- User message displayed whilst establishing host properties and device identity
- User message displayed whilst establishing context with a device
- User message displayed when a connection from a trusted device is disallowed
- User messages displayed when automatically updating the client
- User message displayed when an untrusted device is disallowed
- User message displayed on logoff button
- User message displayed on disconnect button
- User message displayed on lock button
- User message displayed whilst triggers are executed
- Translations of user message displayed whilst establishing host properties and device identity
- Translations of user message displayed whilst establishing context with a device
- Translations of user message displayed when a connection from a trusted device is disallowed
- Translations of user messages displayed when automatically updating the client
- Translations of user message displayed when an untrusted device is disallowed
- Translations of user message displayed on logoff button
- Translations of user message displayed on disconnect button
- Translations of user message displayed on lock button
- Translations of user message displayed whilst triggers are executed
When local administrators are managed users, access to the session can now be denied.
The format of Security Product properties has changed, see Enhancements to Security Product properties. Please ensure that you update your context conditions, or if using one of our templates then we recommend re-importing that template. Additional information can be found in Updating contexts to the new Security Product properties. Any access of the property external to deviceTRUST, such as in a script or third party product will also need to be updated to reference the new values.
The format of the Network properties has changed, see Enhancements to Network properties. Please ensure that you update your context conditions, or if using one of our templates then we recommend re-importing that template. Any access of the property external to deviceTRUST, such as in a script or third party product will also need to be updated to reference the new values.
The format of the Location properties has changed, see Enhancements to Location properties. Please ensure that you update your context conditions, or if using one of our templates then we recommend re-importing that template. Any access of the property external to deviceTRUST, such as in a script or third party product will also need to be updated to reference the new values.
The format of the Windows properties has changed, see Enhancements to Windows properties. Please ensure that you update your context conditions. Unfortunately we no longer support the Internet Explorer Zone Settings property, however the UAC property can be updated with its equivalent and the Update property can be updated with properties from the Windows Update category.
Support for Custom device properties has been removed from the deviceTRUST Console. If you are using Custom properties with IGEL or eLux, then please wait for the forthcoming release of the IGEL and eLux 20.1 clients.
String Equals and String Not Equals conditions no longer accept wildcards. If you previously used wildcards from within a condition then please ensure that you are using the Wildcard Equals or Wildcard Not Equals conditions.
The property changed trigger has been removed. Please ensure you model your properties with a context and use the context changed trigger instead.
The Propagate MULTIHOP properties policy is now disabled by default.
The policy Timeout whilst waiting for AppLocker to process a change has been removed. The timeout value can now be specified on the Microsoft AppLocker task.
An additional Active Setup deviceTRUST Citrix Cleanup 32-bit component has been added. More details can be found here.

Compatibility between deviceTRUST Host 20.1 and deviceTRUST Client 19.4 or earlier

The deviceTRUST Host 20.1.100 will automatically convert Security Product, Network and Location properties received from a 19.4 deviceTRUST Client into the latest format. Additionally, the deviceTRUST Host 20.1.110 will automatically convert the Windows UAC property received from a 19.4 deviceTRUST Client.

Compatibility between deviceTRUST Client 20.1 and deviceTRUST Host 19.4 or earlier

The deviceTRUST Client 20.1.100 will automatically send the previous format of Security Product, Network and Location properties when connecting to a 19.4 or earlier deviceTRUST Host. Additionally, the deviceTRUST Client 20.1.110 will also send the previous format of Windows UAC property to a deviceTRUST 19.4 or earlier Host.

Updating contexts to the new Security Product properties

As detailed in Enhancements to Security Product properties, we’ve made significant changes to our Security Product properties which may need special attention. If you were previously using the Security State template from deviceTRUST 19.4, then you can avoid the need to update your contexts by using our Security State for Remote Devices template from deviceTRUST 20.1 which is available within the Compliant Access template category. However if you want to update an existing context then please continue below.

An example context showing Security Products from 19.4 after upgrading the deviceTRUST Console to 20.1

The above screenshot shows an example context built on the old Security Products after upgrading the deviceTRUST Console to 20.1. Note that both the Device - Security Product - Antivirus Equals Active and Device - Security Product - Firewall Equals Active properties have a warning symbol highlighting a problem. If you attempt to edit the property, the error message Referenced property in category 'Security Product' is no longer valid. Please select a different property is displayed.

To update the Device - Security Product - Antivirus Equals Active condition:

Click on the + below the condition to insert a new condition.
- Select All Devices and then click on the Security Product category.
- Select the Category property.
- Ensure that the operator is Equals and only the Antivirus value is checked.
- Click OK.
Click on the + below the new condition to insert another new condition.
- Select All Devices and then click on the Security Product category.
- Select the Status property.
- Ensure that the operator is Equals and only the Active value is checked.
- Check the option Must be the same instance as parent Security Product. This is essential to ensure that this condition only matches the same security product that has Category Equals Antivirus.
- Click OK.
Delete the previous condition Device - Security Product - Antivirus Equals Active

Repeat the above steps, this time replacing the Device - Security Product - Firewall Equals Active condition and choosing the Category property to equal Firewall.

After following the steps, the updated configuration will look similar to the screenshot below. Click Save in the toolbar to save your changes.

An example context showing the previous context after being updated to the newer 20.1 properties.