The official build 1923 of Alagus Print Admin 4.0 has been released. It now has additional tool included – APAConfig. Its purpose is to easily configure the starting mode of APAServer. You can choose between four options - as Application, as SYSTEM service account, as APAServer account and as Existing account specified.

   Some optimizations in the APAServer engine were completed. Two minor bugs concerning the user detecting have been fixed.   

For advanced users:
   Because of security reasons Microsoft Windows has restricted the usage of DCOM technology, which is the core of the communication between client and server in Alagus Print Admin. This creates some inconveniences for the users of Alagus Print Admin who use firewall (DCOM uses RPC requests which are sent through dynamic TCP ports). As an addition in Windows Server 2003 users rights for using DCOM must be added to the DCOM user group.
   To save the user’s efforts to configure Alagus Print Admin Server, we added Server Socket technology to the process. It means we made an option for creating a bridge between the client and the server using single TCP port: 211. Thus the described above problems are hugely reduced.
   For compatibility we left the option for allowing DCOM communication possible. In order to do that you need to start Alagus Print Admin Console with parameter /DCOM (APAConsole.exe /dcom).