What's new in Direct User Switching 1.7
May 19, 2016
- Added support for Windows 10. Changes have been made such that the popup dialog now dismisses higher priority windows (like Cortana, the Start menu and Notification panel) rather than being obscured by them. Also disconnecting a session that was logged on with a blank password no longer reconnects automatically.
- Windows Live accounts now display the email address rather than the local user name (that is generated automatically). The SID used for storing the password has been changed to the Internet SID from the local SID. This means the saved password will work across multiple machines when roaming profiles are in use.
- Changed the way the popup is launched under Windows 8/8.1 such that it does not cause Windows explorer Alt+Tab to malfunction.
- A registry option has been added to remove the disconnect icon from the popup dialog and/or the disconnect item from the popup menu.
- Several minor improvements have been made to the installer concerning default hot key selection and license key entry.
New in Direct User Switching 1.6 (Apr 2, 2013)
- Added support for Windows 8. Changes have been made such that the popup dialog now displays under the active screen (rather than always the desktop screen). The installer and installed executables are now signed.
- Several improvements have been made to the launching of the DUST client to avoid it giving up under long logon times that can be caused by use of roaming profiles or group policy enforcement.
New in Direct User Switching 1.5.1 (Sep 29, 2009)
- Add support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
New in Direct User Switching 1.5 (Apr 27, 2009)
- Added a command line tool for custom integration solutions
New in Direct User Switching 1.4 (May 1, 2008)
- Support for Windows Server 2008 and minor fixes
New in Direct User Switching 1.3 (Mar 13, 2007)
- Support has been added for Windows Vista and the limitations against Windows XP Home have been removed.
- A new service component has been added to launch DUST against each logon session. This allows DUST to be given administrator privileges to combat restrictions with running under Windows Vista and Windows XP Home. This can be turned off to give the same behaviour as the previous released version.
- An option has been added to use global saved passwords rather than ones on a per-user basis. Once these have been saved, the option can be disabled and they will act as fallback passwords for when there is no specific user one, or it is invalid.
- The disconnect rather than lock feature will now report failures to the event log.
- The installer program is now capable of automated silent installs.
- Windows NT4 Terminal Server Edition is no longer supported.