Printer Activity Monitor 3.9 - Changelog

What's new in Printer Activity Monitor 3.9:

September 9th, 2010

Added:
· Print Rules. Now it is possible to define rules that allow or disallow printing for a certain user or for a group of users based on rich set of parameters. Please note that this feature is available only in Medium Business and Enterprise editions.

Fixed:
· Issue with scanning for computers when one or more LAN machines have identical MAC addresses
· Issue with savig printed documents snapshots when their size exceeds phisical memory amount
· Issue with incorrect recognizing of colority of some documents when agent operates in Client Side monitoring mode
· Issue with incorrect recognizing of paper size of some documents when agent operates in Client Side monitoring mode

Changed/Improved:
· Archiving process of outdated printed documents

What's new in Printer Activity Monitor 3.8:

May 25th, 2010

Added:
· Printed Documents Filtering Rules. Now it is possible to filter out images of printed documents whose properties does not match some predefined values. This feature is useful if it is required to keep on Data Center only those images that match some conditions. For example, images of all documents printed from Microsoft Excel.
Fixed:
· Several issues with Oracle database
· Several issues in reports generation process
· Incorrect export of the list of printed documents to file
Changed/Improved:
· Fonts extraction routine during printing on virtual printer

What's new in Printer Activity Monitor 3.7:

March 15th, 2010

· A new column("Version") has been added to the "Agents Management" page. It contains version of the agent installed on a computer
· Process of removing of outdated printed documents snapshots has been optimized
· Agent install and uninstall speed has been optimized

What's new in Printer Activity Monitor 3.6:

December 30th, 2009

· Added
· A new column("Version") has been added to the "Agents Management" page. It contains version of the agent installed on a computer
· Fixed
· Incorrect console operation on a computers with multiple displays
· Incorrect agents update
· Blocking of the printing process when print job was submitted onto some Ricoh printing devices
· Negative values in the "Bytes Printed" column
· Errors with submiting print jobs onto some printing devices operating under Windows 7
· Memory leaks in Data Center service
· Memory leaks in agent service
· Several issues in agent operating in "Client Side Monitoring" mode
· Changed/Improved
· Help file has been renewed
· Process of removing of outdated printed documents snapshots has been optimized
· Perfomance of the agent operating in "Client Side Monitoring" mode has been optimized dramatically
· Agent install and uninstall speed
· Agent start up speed. Decreased memory consumption
· Upgrade instructions
· The program supports in-place upgrade, i.e. the new version can be installed over the current version without removing it. All settings and data will be kept. After the main modules of the program are updated, you should use the console to update all installed agents

What's new in Printer Activity Monitor 3.5:

December 30th, 2009

· Added
· New icons in console
· New column "Description" on the "Agents Management" page. Shows description of a computer on which agent is installed
· New printing preferences dialog for virtual printers
· Possibility to select refresh rate of agents statuses
· Possibility to use Oracle as data storage
· Fixed
· Several bugs on printing to virtual printers
· Several bugs in agent module operating in Client Side Monitoring mode
· Changed/Improved
· Help file has been renewed
· Upgrade instructions
· The program supports in-place upgrade, i.e. the new version can be installed over the current version without removing it. All settings and data will be kept. After the main modules of the program are updated, you should use the console to update all installed agents.

What's new in Printer Activity Monitor 3.4:

December 30th, 2009

· Added
· Command to install agents using MSI package has been added in console
· Possibility to assign special access rights for «Security Officer» account type has been added
· Changed/Improved
· Improved algorithms of configuration and agents statuses updates
· Load generated by the Data Center component has been reduced significantly
· Improved algorithms of PDF images proccessing on the Data Center. Data Center now is optimized for storing more that 50 000 documents.
· Fixed
· Format of generated PDF files
· Import computer names from Active Directory
· IUSR_PAM_COMMBRIDGE account creation on some operation systems
· Upgrade instructions
· The program supports in-place upgrade, i.e. the new version can be installed over the current version without removing it. All settings and data will be kept. After the main modules of the program are updated, you should use the console to update all installed agents.

· Attention! After installation of the new version, the binary objects upgrade process will be started. This process may take a while and its duration depends on size of current activity database. Please be patient and wait untill it finishes.

What's new in Printer Activity Monitor 3.3:

August 7th, 2009

· Added
· Now it is possible to control the actual state of the data storage: size on disk, records dates range, etc
· Now it is possible to preview a printed documents snapshots in the main program window. For this feature Adobe Acrobat Reader v7.0 or higher is required. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from Adobe.com for free by the following link: Adobe Acrobat Reader

· Changed/Improved
· Help file has been renewed
· Installation package size has been reduced
· MSI file allowing installation of remote agents using Active Directory Group Policies has beed added into the installation package

· Fixed
· Incorrect licensed objects counting
· Incorrect dialogs painting on systems with large fonts

What's new in Printer Activity Monitor 3.2:

May 30th, 2009

· Added
· Now it is possible to search text in printed documents
· Now it is possible to control processor resources allocation on agent
· Now it is possible to watch the actual state of the data storage: size on disk, number of records, etc
· Changed/Improved
· The data scheme has been modified
· The algorithm of PDF documents creation has been improved
· Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server support has been improved
· The algorithm of redirecting documents to the real printing device has been improved
· Fixed
· Incorect reports in some rare cases
· Incorrect agent's temporary files deletion
· Agent installation on Windows 2000 systems
· Creation of empty printed documents snapshots
· Incorrect username resolving through Active Directory
· Creation of incorrect printed documents snapshots in case of use agent on a computers with Terminal Services installed
· Upgrade instructions
· The program supports in-place upgrade, i.e. the new version can be installed over the current version without removing it. All settings and data will be kept. After the main modules of the program are updated, you should use the console to update all installed agents
· Attention! After installation of the new version, the data schema upgrade process will be started. This process may take a while and its duration depends on size of current activity database. Please be patient and wait untill it finishes.

What's new in Printer Activity Monitor 2.0:

May 25th, 2006

· 1) added the support of remote PAM agents
· 2) added the application for viewing printed documents
· 3) a feature to monitor new properties of the printed documents: "Printing Type" (B/W, Color) and "Page Size" was added
· 4) now the program checks if there is a second running copy of the program