For those of you who are already familiar with an earlier Virtual CD NMS version, the new features added to Version 10 are listed in the following:
System Architecture of Virtual CD NMS
| • | Active Directory support: Virtual CD NMS reads out data from your Active Directory environment. You can assign user privileges to AD objects. The Client Distributor can be set to show your ADS rather than the classic Group view (NetBIOS browsing list). |
| • | New operating systems: Virtual CD NMS supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Windows 7 is supported as a client OS. |
NMS Administration
| • | User privileges in Active Directory: User privileges for license codes and CD licenses can now be allocated to objects in your AD environment. Profile can also be assigned AD users, stations and OUs. |
| • | CD groups: NMS v10 lets you combine virtual CDs in groups. Then you can allocate user privileges that apply for all images in a group. |
| • | Simultaneous NMS administration on multiple stations: You can run multiple instances of NMS Administration on multiple stations simultaneously. Operations such as inserting virtual CDs can be performed simultaneously. Changing the NMS settings is the only operation that is restricted to a single station. |
| • | New interface: The interface of the NMS Administration program has been completely revised and simplified. Where the earlier versions had a menu bar and a toolbar, v10 puts all controls together in the new Ribbon. |
| • | Export function: A new export function lets you export data on license and CD usage in the form of CSV files; for example, to create Excel charts from the data evaluated. |
NMS Client Distributor
| • | Reading data from Active Directory: A detection method has been added to the Client Distributor that lets you read out your ADS. |
| • | Display of the AD: Once you have read out your ADS, all objects from the Active Directory are shown in an AD view. |
| • | Virtual CD v10 support: The Client Distributor supports Virtual CD v10, and can deinstall Virtual CD v9 clients. |
| • | Installation log on client stations: The Client Distributor gives you direct access to the installation log on the client station; for example, for troubleshooting in case of errors during installation. |
| • | Client reboot status: You can reset the reboot status of client stations. This is useful, for example, if the reboot status indicates that a reboot is required before further operations can be carried out, but you know the reboot is not necessary. |
NMS Profile Editor
| • | Virtual CD v10 support: The Profile Editor has been expanded to support all of the functions in Virtual CD v10. Support for earlier functions remains available as well. |
| • | New interface: The Profile Editor interface has been revised, and adapted to the new interface in NMS Administration. All functions are now available through the versatile Ribbon. |