8 June, 2015
Print Manager Plus 9.0.21.523 Update Released
New Features:
> Print Manager Plus 8.0 Migration Wizard now available for SQL and Access databases. Customers using the most recent version of 8.0 (8.0.137.209) that are under maintenance can now import their entire print history, as well as balances, restrictions, projects and other settings.
- Click Here to read "How to upgrade to Print Manager Plus 9.0 from Print Manager Plus 8.0."
> User Membership Wizard added to make initial setup of Balances, Rules and Restrictions by Groups and Organizational Units easy and clear.
> Windows Authentication feature added for Web Portal access, allowing for a Mixed mode login window combined with single sign on via windows, or a purely Windows Sign On option.
> Support added for purchasing additional quota, or paying for held jobs via the CyberSource Payment System.
> Option added within Domain to treat disabled accounts in Active Directory as deleted, so they will be orphaned and removed.
> Option added to assist when temporarily a domain controller is unreachable, user printing will be assumed to be within the local print server domain.
Feature Enhancements:
> New installations now use Active Directory Primary Group attribute by default for determining main grouping for reporting and initial balances.
> Various data integrity improvements ensuring soundness of history and reliability of settings.
> Added support for adding Local / Workgroup Group entities via the Premium API.
> Cost Profiles now support deletion via the Premium API.
> Added additional fields and information to My Printing History report.
> Expanded My Credit History report to show much more detailed information to end users about their balance usage.
> Improved Database connection pooling to more efficiently reuse, or not reuse connections in the event of temporarily network issues.
> Advanced override option added allowing to set a preferred protocol (Named Pipes or TCP/IP) for database communication.
Counting Engine Fixes:
> Resolved issues tracking Ricoh MP Series Printers.
Bug Fixes:
> Resolved issue opening the Administrator console from more than one Remote Desktop session, using the same username.
> Duplex restriction is no longer enforced on single page jobs that can’t be duplex.
> Deleting Page Size Overrides per Printer from the Premium API now works properly.
> Improved reliability of web print uploads via Chromebook for a variety of ChromeOS versions
> Resolved issue where creating scheduled quota updates via the Premium API always resulted in a Daily interval, even when Weekly or Monthly was specified.
> Fixed Hourly, Daily and Monthly printing charts to show local time instead of UTC time.
> Resolved excess space characters ( ) from showing up on some Reporting controls.
> Changing the sort by metric within Most Active Charts now properly changes the report.
> User Group Membership report now shows data instead of all fields being empty.
> Resolved issue where Most Active Reports and Page Size comparison reports could crash, and not run.
> Better clarified Duplex Mode restriction text.
> Resolved issue with Document Title whitelist.
> Grouping WebPrint queues by Printer Group, or Server now work properly within the Web Printing page.
> Key and Password fields are now masked for better security within Web Portal Settings.
> The proper primary group is now applied for users when Choose Primary Group by Highest or Lowest pages only balance is used.
> Resolved issues with Google Chromebook integration where upload could fail after updates to Chrome OS.
> Fixed issue on new and past print history, where blank or empty jobs could log with extraordinarily large, or negative costs.
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