Changelog

9.39

Release date: 2024-11-06

Section	Change
Cloud/Microsoft 365/Manage user linking	Replaced section Link users manually with sections Link users manually with suggested matches and Link users manually without suggested matches to reflect the new search functionality. Updated sections Edit manual user linking and Unlink users. Added new sections: Improve search time when linking users manually: Cached data and Improve search time when linking users manually: Indexed data.
Compliance examples	Added new examples: Example: Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Example: Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard

9.38

Release date: 2024-10-02

Section	Change
-	No changes.

9.37

Release date: 2024-09-12

Section	Change
Administrative tasks/Administration overview	Updated sections Application allowlist and Application denylist.

9.36

Release date: 2024-08-21

Section	Change
Cloud/Adobe Creative Cloud	Added information on the new annual filter.

9.35

Release date: 2024-06-19

Section	Change
-	No changes.

9.34.2

Release date: 2024-05-29

Section	Change
Cloud/Adobe Creative Cloud/Manage user linking	Renamed Improve search time when linking users manually to Improve search time when linking users manually: Cached data. New section Improve search time when linking users manually: Indexed data.

9.34.1

Release date: 2024-05-08

Publication date: 2024-05-21

Section	Change
Computers	In Edit computer, under General tab, updated the information on status mode Inactive. In Archive computer, added more information to the note. In Edit mobile device, under General tab, updated the information on status mode Inactive.

9.34

Release date: 2024-04-17

Section	Change
Cloud/Adobe Creative Cloud/Manage user linking	Section Link users manually updated to reflect the new search functionality. New section Edit manual user linking. New section Improve search time when linking users manually.
Compliance exclusions	Added procedures for the tasks related to the compliance exclusions, and added information to reflect that you now can create exclusion rules based on users.
Appendix A - Compliance examples	Renamed Appendix A - Compliance examples to Compliance examples. New section Compliance exclusions: Users. Renamed Compliance example 1 to Example: WinRAR archiver. Renamed Compliance example 2 to Example: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise. Renamed Compliance example 3 to Example: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard. Updated and renamed Compliance example 4 to Compliance exclusions: Computers. Renamed Compliance example 5 to Example: Microsoft Windows Server 2022.
Reports	New section Manage customized reports. New section Manage scheduled reports which replaces the Schedule automatic report generation and Show, edit, or delete a scheduled report sections. In Show report, moved information related to customized reports to the new Manage customized reports section.

9.33

Release date: 2024-01-24

Section	Change
Agreements/Edit agreement	Added procedure for how to edit several agreements at the same time.

9.32

Release date: 2023-11-22

Section	Change
Appendix A - Compliance examples	Added new Compliance example 5 for Microsoft Windows Server 2022 license compliance.
Users/Users detail view	Added definition of Active last.
Cloud/SaaS overview	Added definition of User account login activity.
Cloud/Adobe Creative Cloud Cloud/Microsoft 365	Added definition of User activity.
Cloud/Adobe Creative Cloud	Added definition of Unlinked users.
Cloud/Adobe Creative Cloud/Manage portals	New subsections: Prerequisites, Migrate portals, Configure time for scheduled portal migrations, Run portal migrations manually, and Cancel scheduled portal migrations.
Generic functionality/Manage documents and links	Editorial changes including clarification on how to use the link alternative.
Add license purchase/Assignment tab	In Assignment type: User section, added a note about the use of "%" as a wildcard character. In Assignment type: Site section, clarified that a site license can only be assigned to one site.
User settings/Settings tab	In User interface section, added information on supported languages.
Reports/Manage reports with application lifecycle information	New page.
Oracle overview	The whole section with subsections has been reworked extensively.
Agreements	Oracle agreement-specific information has been removed from Add agreement and Edit agreement, and instead, the pages now refer to Manage Oracle agreements in the Oracle overview section.

9.31

Release date: 2023-08-30

Section	Change
Agreements/Agreements detail view	Editorial changes to clarify that the UI fields and tabs described on this page are not available for all agreements in the UI.
Custom fields	Added notes that you shouldn't give custom fields the same name as the standard fields in Snow License Manager.
Cloud/Microsoft 365	Added section Definitions to explain subscription terms.

9.30

Release date: 2023-06-07

Section	Change
Concepts, terminology, and features/Agreement	In the Agreement type table, a note has been added to the description of the Oracle agreement type, clarifying that Oracle agreements are handled in the Oracle overview section of the user interface.

9.29

Release date: 2023-05-17

Section	Change
Oracle overview	Since the Oracle verified data feature now supports Java SE in addition to Oracle Databases and Oracle Fusion Middleware, the Oracle verified data view and Oracle verified data tab – Reference pages have been updated accordingly.
Oracle overview/Manage Oracle verified data	New page.

9.28

Release date: 2023-05-03

Section	Change
Adobe Creative Cloud	Added description of the new Manage portals page.
Adobe Creative Cloud/Manage portals	New page.
Microsoft 365	Added description of the new Manage portals page.
Microsoft 365/Manage portals	New page.
Multiple versions/editions	Added a note to clarify the use.
Edit application	In License settings tab, added notes to clarify the use of simultaneous multiple versions and multiple editions.

9.27.1

Release date: 2023-04-05

Section	Change
My notifications	Added more information to the introduction.
Appendix A - Compliance examples/Compliance example 4	In Compliance exclusions in reports section, added the missing Windows Server Assessment - 2022 or later licensing report.
Add agreement	In General tab, bullet 8: updated text and name of the checkbox Include in searches where license purchase date is outside of active period (previous name Selectable after expiration).
Add license purchase	In Purchase tab, bullet 6: updated with new search functionality and changed name of (agreement) checkbox.

9.27

Release date: 2023-03-15

Section	Change
-	No changes

9.26

Release date: 2023-02-01

Section	Change
Oracle overview/Oracle verified data tab	Since the Oracle verified data feature now supports Oracle Fusion Middleware in addition to Oracle Databases, the page has been updated accordingly.
Oracle overview/Oracle verified data tab/Oracle verified data tab – Reference	New page.
Oracle overview/Oracle Fusion Middleware details view	New page.
Concepts, terminology, and features/Oracle database products	The page has been renamed Oracle Management Option and the content has been updated.
Support and feedback	Updated the content to reflect how you can get support and send feedback.
Introduction	Added that the overview shows the data flow in the Snow License Manager platform.

9.25

Release date: 2022-11-30

Section	Change
Adobe Creative Cloud/Prerequisites	Added section.
Adobe Creative Cloud	Editorial updates. Moved some information to the Prerequisites section.
Microsoft 365/Prerequisites	Added section.
Microsoft 365	Added section on User activity. Editorial updates. Moved some information to the Prerequisites section.
SaaS overview/Prerequisites	Added section.
SaaS overview	Editorial updates. Moved some information to the Prerequisites section.
Run import	In Computer update settings, update description for the Delete option.
Register an Oracle purchase	Deleted the section Register the Support and Software Updates agreement and replaced it with a link to the topic Add agreement.
Application allowlist	Added information that the ACTIVATE_APPLICATION_WHITELISTING setting needs to be enabled in SnowMACC.

9.24

Release date: 2022-11-09

Section	Change
Adobe Creative Cloud/Manage user linking in Adobe Creative Cloud	Added description of manual user linking on the Link users page. Editorial updates.
Adobe Creative Cloud	Updated description of the user linking prerequisite. Editorial updates.

9.23

Release date: 2022-10-19

Section	Change
Adobe Creative Cloud	Added description of the new Users page.
Compliance example 2	In Decide on licensing, replaced two images and corrected the example.
Edit computer	General tab: Added information on Disable automatic quarantine management for members of auto-generated datacenters.
Custom compare value types	Added information on custom fields and a link to more information. Added information on the Custom compare value types page. Added more information on the Use a custom field value for compliance checkbox when adding or editing custom compare value types.
Export	Added a note describing how to replace the font family in the web.config file when an exported PDF file contains meaningless random characters.
Computers detail view	Added that applications with an orange background can for example be cloud applications.

9.22

Release date: 2022-06-15

Section	Change
Introduction	Updated the image and the descriptions of the components in the Platform overview.
Add license purchase/Purchase tab	Clarified that assignments must be made for metrics that require assignments.
Adobe Creative Cloud/Manage cost periods in Adobe Creative Cloud	Added step for selection of Adobe portal when adding license cost.

9.21

Release date: 2022-04-12

Section	Change
Import or update licenses	Added a link to Data Import Field Description.
Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud/Manage user linking in Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud/Manage cost periods in Adobe Creative Cloud	Reworked information and described new functionality.
Microsoft 365	Described updated activity-related charts and tables.

9.20

Release date: 2022-03-09

Section	Change
Oracle verified data view	New
Custom fields	Added information on what is required when you want to calculate the compliance for an application and include a custom field in the calculation.

9.19

Release date: 2022-02-09

Section	Change
Adobe Creative Cloud	Added description of the subscription filter functionality.
Oracle Java visibility	Clarified that the All Java installations report contains both Oracle and non-Oracle Java installations.
SaaS overview SaaS overview/Manage cost periods in SaaS overview	Editorial rework of content.
Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365/Manage user linking in Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365/Manage cost periods in Microsoft 365	Editorial rework of content.
The user interface/Remarks	Added remarks AL, DL, and UI

9.18

Release date: 2021-12-08

Section	Change
Adobe Creative Cloud	Added description of the multi-portal filter and capability.
Computers detail view	Clarified what kind of information is shown here. Added a note about Logical processors.

9.17

Release date: 2021-11-17

Section	Change
Action log	Moved the content of section Appendix B - Action log to section Action log.

9.16

Release date: 2021-09-16

Name	Change
Secondary use rights	Added support for Desktop - Desktop.
Show report	Added information describing date operators.

9.15

Release date: 2021-09-01

Section	Change
Oracle overview	Added information on Oracle Java to the Products tab.
Oracle Java visibility	Added a new section.
Microsoft 365	Added information on new chart filtering based on subscriptions and that subscription utilization is for subscriptions with user-based metric.

9.14

Release date: 2021-06-22

Section	Change
Assignment types	Added Users as a new available assignment type for metric Concurrent users.
User settings/Settings tab	Added new setting Auto allocate licenses
Assignment tab	Clarified that the setting for enabling auto allocation checkbox is configured in the User settings.

9.13

Release date: 2021-05-05

Section	Change
Microsoft 365/Link users	Added information about the Unlinked users tab.
Reports cache	Added a new section.
Show report	Added information about how to show cached reports.
Enable or disable caching	Added a new section.

9.12

Release date: 2021-03-17

Section	Change
Microsoft 365	Changed name from Microsoft Office 365 to Microsoft 365. Updated name of Microsoft 365 connector.
Microsoft 365/Manage cost periods for Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365/Overview Microsoft 365/Subscriptions Microsoft 365/Users Microsoft 365/Cost	Added new sections.
Cloud reports Agreement report License report User reports Computer and mobile device reports Application reports Manage subscription plans Add subscription plan Remove subscription plan Optimize Microsoft Office 365 subscription plans Find users that could switch from MS Office Plan E3 to E1 Find users that are not using their subscription plan Analyze cost per subscription plan Analyze Microsoft 365 data.	Removed sections

9.10

Release date: 2021-02-17

Section	Change
Auto assign Oracle licenses	Added information that hard partitioned environments (IBM LPAR) are now included in the auto assignment process, provided that no licenses have been manually assigned to the environment.
Archive computers	Added that saved details of archived computers can be found on Search for computers page. Removed sentence: "An archived computer cannot be restored."
Share a Snowboard	Added new section.
Invalid license assignments	Deleted the duplicated alerts No eligible application installed, Overassignment, and Invalid processor count.

9.9

Release date: 2020-12-09

Section	Change
Oracle database detail view	Added text to the description of the Options used tab in the table concerning the new feature showing details of why an option is marked as used or not.
User settings	Changed name of menu from Administration to Application.
Help and support	Updated the information to reflect the user interface.
Data Update Job	Removed sentence: "Snow License Manager 9.1 and later versions allow users to sign in at all times, regardless of whether Data Update Job is running or not." Added info about Data Update Job status.
Assignment type: Organization	Updated the information to reflect that auto allocation is now selected by default.
Invalid license assignments	Added all possible invalid license assignments, including descriptions.

9.8

Release date: 2020-10-21

Section	Change
Computer/Applications tab	Added a note about allowlist and denylist functionality.
Archiving and unarchiving licenses	Added new section.
Archiving and unarchiving agreements	Added new section.
License Reports Agreement Reports	Added Archived licenses and Archived agreements as examples of reports.
Edit Oracle orders	Added new section.
Delete Oracle orders	Added new section.
Unassign Oracle licenses	Changed the title of the section from Bulk-unassign Oracle licenses. Removed the word bulk from this section. Removed information about when this functionality was introduced.
Unassign licenses from one or more orders	Changed the procedure due to changed functionality.
Unassign licenses from one computer/datacenter/cluster	Clarified a step in the procedure.
Add or edit denylist criteria	Added steps describing new functionality for Comment and Organization.
Several sections	Changed the word blacklist to denylist and whitelist to allowlist.

9.7

Release date: 2020-06-17

Section	Change
Import data	Added section Import or update licenses. Removed section License import settings. Removed information concerning license import in section Preview of imported data.
Oracle overview	Changed name of tab Orders & Licenses to Entitlements. Added information about Agreements and Auto assignments in Entitlements tab.
Compliance summary view	Added information about the new feature Compliance trend.
Agreements	Added specific information about Oracle agreements. Corrected the name for Upgrade rights (previously Automatic license upgrades) checkbox.

9.6

Release date: 2020-02-12

Section	Change
License settings tab/Metric	Updated the information to reflect that you now can change the default metric.
Multiple metrics	Updated the information.
Auto assign Oracle licenses	Updated the information to reflect changes in the user interface regarding the auto assign wizard.

9.5

Release date: 2019-11-06

Section	Change
Oracle overview	Updated the table with a description of the new Overview Products tab.
Order summary view	Added a new section in the section Oracle overview.
Compliance summary view	Added a new section in the section Oracle overview.
Auto assign Oracle licenses	Added a new section.
Manage lists	Updated the information to reflect that the functions List all applications and List all computers are no longer available.

9.4.1

Release date: 2019-09-25

Section	Change
-	No changes

9.33

Release date: 2019-09-03

Section	Change
Change password	Removed the "¤" character from the list of symbols.
Reports	Updated the information to reflect the changes in the user interface.
Invalid license assignments	Updated the information to reflect how Snow License Manager works and how alerts are shown in the user interface.
Compare values tab Remove bundle licensing Restore bundle licensing Default metric compliance example 1 Other metric compliance example 1	Changed the information about recalculating compliance to reflect what happens in the user interface.
Oracle license compliance	Updated information about supported rule sets.

9.3

Release date: 2019-06-27

Section	Change
Remarks	Added remark LH.
License settings	Updated the information.
Application detail view Licenses tab Compliance tab License settings tab Purchase tab	Added information about multiple metrics.
Multiple metrics	Added a new section.
Multiple metrics	Added a new section.
Security tab	Corrected text about organization node.
Adobe Creative Cloud	Added information on limitations and constraints.

9.2

Release date: 2019-04-24

Section	Change
Oracle overview	Added new sections: Visibility: Products, Visibility: Orders, Oracle order list, Visibility: License assignments, Oracle license statuses, Oracle license compliance: Supported rule sets, Import Oracle orders, and Assign Oracle licenses.
Add Oracle order manually	Changed the title of the section from Add Oracle order.
Associate servers with Oracle orders	Updated the information.
Add datacenters and clusters/General tab	Added information on new functionality to automatically populate Hypervisor technology and High availability for VMware Datacenter/Clusters.
Adobe Creative Cloud	Added a new section.
Link Snow License Manager users with Microsoft Office 365 users	Replaced "Snow Inventory 5" with "Active Directory user discovery".
Edit cost information	Added information on Adobe Creative Cloud.
Add new cost period for Microsoft Office 365 and SaaS	Changed the title of the section from Add new cost period.
Delete cost period for Microsoft Office 365 and SaaS	Changed the title of the section from Delete cost period.
Search for applications and computers	Added a new section.
Save searches for applications and computers	Added a new section.
Search for mobile devices, users, agreements, licenses, and objects	Changed the title of the section from Search. Added a note explaining that there are two different search functions.
Save searches for mobile devices, users, agreements, licenses, and objects	Changed the title of the section from Save searches. Added a note explaining that there are two different search functions.
Edit application Edit computer Archive computer Application blacklist Application whitelist IBM PVU licensing	Changed List all applications/computers to Search for applications/computers

9.1

Release date: 2019-03-28

Section	Change
Data Update Job	Added new section
Software enterprise agreement	Deleted the following sections: Software enterprise agreements, Add software enterprise agreement, Information tab, Purchase orders tab, and Distributions tab.
Agreement	Deleted row Software enterprise agreement from the table.

9.0

Release date: 2018-11-22

Section	Change
Oracle database detail view	In the table for tabs Options used and Management packs agreed, added information on a new feature to manually change values.
Oracle overview	Renamed Database editions tab to Products.
Oracle overview	Added line for tab Orders in the table.
Platform overview	Updated information regarding Snow Inventory and Data Update Job.