New Features:
- Temporary Session Elevation – Privilege Manager now supports passcodes allowing admins to provide temporary machine-wide elevated privileges to end-users. The passcodes will work for both on-network and off-network machines, and even ones having no active internet connection. Admins will be able to use Validation Logic to specifiy exactly who can use a generated passcode and when it will expire. Additionally, all passcode usages will be reported.
Privilege Manager is no longer an on-network only privilege management solution. Newly generated TSE passwords will work even in situations where the Privilege Manager server and the managed workstation are on disconnected isolated networks.
- Server 2016 Support – Privilege Manager now supports the latest version of Microsoft Server.
- Improve scalability of Application Discovery - Privilege Manager’s Application Discovery process, which gathers data on all installed applications across the network (needed for Rule creation), is now at least 10 times more scalable and addresses previous performance bottlenecks.
Enhancements:
- Improved security throughout by updating security related components and signed certificates.
- We continue to work closely with our customers and have found and fixed numerous intermittent bugs, performance bottlenecks and stability issues.
Product Licensing:
Each Privilege Manager license file is compatible with only a single major version of the product (eg. 3.x or 4.x). This means existing 3.x licenses will not be valid after upgrading to a 4.x build. Therefore, existing customers are required to obtain a new license file via the
License Assistance portal in order to be properly registered after upgrade.
NOTE: Privilege Manager for Windows does not phone home for product licensing. Refer to the Privilege Manager for Windows Administrator Guide for information on editions and applying a license.
The full Release Notes can be viewed here.