Get the scoop on upcoming changes to Policy Management
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we’re happy to announce that Policies in the Avast Business Management Consoles is getting a makeover. Configuring and managing policies for all your business devices is about to get easier than ever.
What’s new?
Beginning December 16, you will get access to a brand new policy management page in the Beta Management Console. We’ve made improvements to the policies architecture and as a result, you will no longer need to define separate policy settings based on the operating system of your devices, helping you save time and resources.
Benefits
Configure all your policy settings from one page and apply them to all devices, regardless of operating system
Easily create and manage exclusions in one place, and apply them to all devices, regardless of operating system
Create new policies with predefined settings for Workstations and Servers
Reorganized settings for easy access and configuration:
Separate firewall settings
The antivirus scans settings will be moved under the antivirus general settings
The restart settings for Antivirus and Patch Management will be consolidated under general settings
How will this impact my existing policies?
To make these improvements possible, you will notice some changes to your existing policies beginning on December 16, 2020.
If you have custom settings based on your devices’ operating system within an existing policy, that policy will be migrated to the new architecture and separated into multiple policies based on the operating system (Windows Workstations, Windows Servers, and Mac OS X). For example, if you have one policy with different settings for Windows Workstations, Windows Servers, and Mac OS X, you will now ..
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