Known limitations and workarounds
This section describes the known limitations and possible workarounds.
- Client and Session relevance expressions with a large number of elements
- Known limitation: The evaluation of client or session relevance expressions containing a large number of elements could be expensive, and result in the crash of the process running them (Client, FixletDebugger, QnA, WebReports, and so on) depending on the hardware or software resources of the machine.
- Computer Name for Windows is limited to 15 characters
- Known limitation: The Computer Name property for the Windows agents retrieves the Netbios name of the computer, which is limited to 15 characters. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264.
- License Key Password is limited to 35 characters
- Known limitation: The License Key Password is limited to 35 characters and cannot contain double quotes.
- Visual C++ 2012 Redistribution Packages installation requirement
- Known limitation: Visual C++ 2012 Redistribution Packages must be installed on the BigFix Client machine before deploying the task ID 978 "Enable Encryption for Clients" of the "BES Support" site.
- Changing the domain of AD/LDAP operators can cause issues on Web Reports
- Known limitation: Modifying the domain of AD/LDAP non-master operators causes Web Reports to manage the AD/LDAP user as a different operator. The new operator will not have access to the private reports and to other private objects associated to the original operator.