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Flexera's Snow Atlas Office Hours (Topic: License Compliance & Optimization) Tuesday, October 20 at 10:00am, ET/3:00pm, GMT

You are invited to our monthly Snow Atlas session designed around the topics that matter most to your team.

Hosted by our SME’s, these sessions are built to help you accelerate time to value, adopt new features, and solve your toughest use cases alongside peers. Each session is 30 minutes of focused training followed by 30 minutes of open Q&A and discussion — so you can learn best practices and get your real-world questions answered in the same hour.

For this call, our topic is License Compliance and Optimization. We will discuss effective license position (ELP), entitlements vs consumption, analysing your position, opportunities to optimize, and other best practices.

Please share with your colleagues if they are interested in joining.

Tuesday, October 20 at 10:00am, ET/3:00pm, GMT

This session will focus on License Compliance & Optimization.

Click the link below to add the meeting to your calendar.

What to expect

• 60 minutes — 30 min training, 30 min live Q&A and open discussion
• Led by Snow Atlas experts — practical guidance, not slideware
• Bring your questions — real answers to real estate, configuration, and optimization challenges
• Exclusively for Snow Atlas customers — hosted live on Microsoft Teams

Why attend

• Faster time to value from the features you're already paying for
• Direct access to product and services experts in a live, interactive format
• Practical, repeatable best practices you can apply immediately
•  A touchpoint with the Snow Atlas team

Look forward to having you join the conversation.

Thanks,

The Flexera Snow Atlas team

EA Release notification: Edit of multiple licenses (standard fields) in SAM on Snow Atlas

Release summary:

We are excited to introduce Edit of multiple licenses (standard fields) in SAM on Snow Atlas. This enhancement enables you to update multiple licenses in a single operation, directly from the Licenses list, eliminating repetitive manual updates and reducing reliance on APIs, imports, or technical support.

What’s included?

• Multi-editing capability: Select and update up to 10,000 licenses across different license metrics and assignment types, updating only the fields that are applicable to the selected licenses.
• Standard field updates: Modify key license attributes across multiple records simultaneously.
• In-app experience: Perform all updates directly from the Licenses list without APIs, imports, or external tools.
• Permission consistency: Use existing edit permissions with no additional configuration required.
• Audit log support: Multi-edit updates are recorded in the audit log, providing visibility into changes made across licenses.
• For each license value or setting:
  • Only changed values are updated.
  • If the selected licenses share the same value, it appears in the edit view.
  • If the selected licenses have different values before the change, you will see "Values differ" in the edit view.

Why this matters?

• Simplifies organizational changes: Update ownership, cost center, department, or other standard fields across hundreds of licenses after mergers, acquisitions, restructures, or team changes.
• Supports mixed license estates: Apply updates across licenses with different license metrics and assignment types in a single operation, reducing the effort required to maintain diverse software portfolios.
• Accelerates data cleanup initiatives: Correct outdated or inconsistent license information across large numbers of licenses without editing each record individually.
• Improves data consistency: Ensure common attributes remain aligned across the license estate, reducing errors and improving reporting accuracy.
• Reduces technical dependency: Enables users to perform large-scale updates directly in the product without relying on APIs, imports, or technical teams.
• Saves significant time: Activities that previously required numerous manual updates can now be completed in a single operation, freeing teams to focus on compliance, optimization, and vendor management.

What’s next?

• Support for editing of custom fields for licenses is planned for Q4 and is currently in development.

Release info:

• Release date: 08th October 2026
• Product domain: SAM on Snow Atlas
• Release availability: Early Access (EA)

Q&A: Software investigations in Snow Atlas

Wednesday 4 November from 3.30pm – 4.30pm GMT/ 10.30am – 11.30am ET

Join the Snow Atlas team for a community Q&A on using the Files per computer report  in software investigations.

Whether you’re new to software investigations or have used it for years, bring your questions. For example, How can I find a particular file or software version? What should I do if an application isn’t recognised?

Submit your question in advance

This is a forum based Q&A taking place here in the Flexera community there is no webinar/event registration, videocall or presentation. Use the form above to submit questions in advance. On 4th November, use the thread to post any additional questions in the comments; our experts will respond during the Q&A window.

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Correction Release: SharePoint scheduled report exports no longer fail due to duplicate file names

What was happening?

A scheduled report export to SharePoint could fail with a "Name already exists" error when a file with the same name already existed in the target location or when multiple users generated the same report simultaneously. In these situations, SharePoint rejected the upload and the report was not delivered.

What has been changed?

Every export now receives a unique file name. Export file names have been updated to include additional identifiers, helping prevent conflicts when files with the same name are generated or uploaded concurrently:

• Milliseconds in the timestamp
• A 6-character unique ID (GUID) suffix (Example : AdobeCC_20260930123000001_2e0d0c)

What this means for you?

• Scheduled exports should no longer fail due to duplicate file names.
• Reports scheduled for SharePoint delivery should arrive more reliably.
• Exported file names will look slightly different because they now include a more precise timestamp and a unique ID suffix.

Is any action required?

Existing schedules will continue to run without interruption, and the update is applied automatically. If downstream integrations, such as Power BI, depend on the exported files, review and update any file name references as needed to ensure those integrations continue to operate correctly.

Release Info:

Product: SAM on Snow Atlas(Report export to SharePoint)

Type: Correction

Release date: 21 September 2026

Release notification: Edit of multiple agreements (standard fields) in SAM on Snow Atlas

Release summary:

We are excited to introduce Edit of multiple agreements (standard fields) in SAM on Snow Atlas. This enhancement enables you to update multiple agreements in a single operation, directly from the Agreements list, eliminating repetitive manual updates and reducing reliance on APIs or technical support.

What’s included?

• Multi-editing capability: Select and update up to 1,000 agreements of the same type in one action.
• Standard field updates: Modify key agreement attributes across multiple records simultaneously.
• In-app experience: Perform all updates directly from the Agreements list without APIs, imports or external tools.
• Permission consistency: Uses existing edit permissions with no additional configuration required.
• Audit log support: Multi-edit updates are recorded in the audit log, providing visibility into changes made across agreements.
• For each agreement value or setting:
  • Only changed values are updated.
  • If the selected agreements share the same value, it appears in the edit view.
  • If the selected agreements have different values before the change, you will see "Values differ" in the edit view.

Why this matters?

• Removes repetitive work: Eliminates the need to update agreements one by one.
• Saves significant time: Multi-editing that previously took time can now be completed in seconds.
• Improves data consistency: Apply changes across multiple agreements simultaneously, reducing the risk of errors.
• Reduces technical dependency: Enables users to perform multi-editing without relying on APIs, imports, or technical teams.
• Frees up time for strategic work: Allows teams to focus on higher-value activities such as compliance, optimization, and vendor management.

What’s next?

• Support for editing custom fields for agreements is currently in development and testing, with an EA release planned for early Q4.
• The improved performance and new backend architecture will also allow users to edit up to 10,000 agreements of the same type in a single action.

Release Info:

·      Release date: September 24, 2026

·      Product domain: SAM on Snow Atlas

·      Release availability: General Availability (GA)

·      Documentation: https://docs.flexera.com/snow-atlas/sam-core/sam-core-user-interface/agreements/manage-agreements

Enhanced SaaS Management - Certificate based authorization support for EntraID, M365 and MS Defender 

Release date: September 16, 2026

This release delivers Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) as an alternative authorization method for the Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365 (M365), and Microsoft Defender connectors in Flexera One SaaS Management (FOSM).

Building on the existing OAuth2 Client Credentials method (Client ID + Client Secret), customers can now configure and authorize Microsoft connectors using customer-managed certificates tied to their Azure (Entra ID) app registrations.

This release achieves functional parity with FSM, satisfies strict regulatory compliance mandates such as DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act), and supports enterprise security policies requiring stronger authentication mechanisms without disrupting or forcing deprecation of existing client credential configurations.

Official release of Snow Extender 26.2.0

We are pleased to announce the release of Snow Extender 26.2.0

This release delivers security enhancements based on recommendations from Flexera Product Security following penetration testing of Snow Extender.

This release includes:

• Snow Atlas API access: Enhanced authentication controls to ensure that only authenticated requests are forwarded to the configured Snow Atlas API endpoints.
• Snow Atlas API credentials: Improved protection of credentials used to access Snow Atlas API endpoints.

Release information

Product: Snow Extender

Release Tier: Minor Release

Release Version: 26.2.0

Release Date: 2026-09-21

Release Availability: GA

Release Notes: Snow Extender 26.2.0 Release Notes

Product Documentation: Snow Extender Documentation

Distribution method: Installer available for download from the Snow Atlas user interface.

Official release of Snow Integration Manager 26.3.0

We are pleased to announce the release of Snow Integration Manager 26.3.0

This release includes: 

·      Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager connector: Added a new connector for collecting inventory from OLVM environments into SAM on Snow Atlas and Snow License Manager.

·      Discovery data from file connector: Added support for populating the DiscoveryDate field in discovery manifests.

·      ServiceNow ITSM connectors: Added a configurable page size for computer data retrieval.

·      ServiceNow ITSM connectors: Fixed OAuth authentication through connector-configured proxy servers.

·      HCL BigFix connector: Fixed duplicate device identity attributes that could cause incorrect device merges.

·      VMware vSphere connector: Fixed BIOS serial-number formatting for inventoried virtual machines.

·      VMware vSphere connector: Fixed proxy configuration restoration after aggregation.

·      BMC Discovery connector: Improved handling of software records with missing names.

·      HCL BigFix connector: Fixed missing records when processing large paginated datasets.

·      Microsoft Hyper-V connector: Fixed authentication for service accounts specified in UPN format.

·      Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization connector: Corrected host and datacenter identity mapping.

·      Snow XML connector: Improved processing of network adapter data without a MAC address.

·      HCL BigFix connector: Improved validation of software-instance and software-metric inclusion rules.

Customer Impact:

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Connector

Before this release: Customers using Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, including those transitioning from the legacy Oracle VM platform, did not have a supported SIM connector for collecting OLVM virtualization inventory into SAM on Snow Atlas or Snow License Manager. This resulted in limited visibility into OLVM-managed hosts, virtual machines, clusters, and their relationships, increasing reliance on manual collection or alternative approaches.

After this release: The new connector automatically collects inventory from OLVM environments through the OLVM API and imports OLVM-managed hosts, virtual machines, clusters, and their relationships into SAM Core on Snow Atlas and Snow License Manager. This expands virtualization inventory coverage, reduces reliance on manual processes, and helps customers transitioning from Oracle VM to OLVM maintain visibility across their virtualized environments to support license-compliance processes.

For configuration information, refer to the Oracle Linux VM connector user guide.

Discovery Data From File Connector

·      The addition of the DiscoveryDate field provides a consistent discovery timestamp, improving metadata consistency and reliable processing across discovery sources.

ServiceNow ITSM Connectors

·      The configurable page size improves computer-data retrieval reliability by allowing customers to adjust the number of records retrieved according to their environment and payload size.

·      OAuth requests now use the proxy settings configured in the connector, supporting reliable ServiceNow authentication in environments that require proxy communication.

HCL BigFix Connector

·      Corrected device identity mapping prevents distinct devices from being incorrectly merged, improving device identification and host-to-virtual-machine relationships.

·      Improved pagination ensures complete processing of large datasets, reducing the risk of missing software inventory records.

·      Improved filtering validation prevents inconsistent software-instance and software-metric selections, supporting more complete and reliable inventory data.

VMware vSphere Connector

·      Preserving BIOS serial numbers exactly as reported by VMware vSphere improves consistency when comparing or combining data from multiple inventory sources.

·      Correct restoration of proxy settings allows subsequent connector operations to use the appropriate network configuration without restarting Snow Integration Manager.

BMC Discovery Connector

·      Filtering software records with missing names prevents malformed records from disrupting downstream processing while preserving valid software inventory data.

Microsoft Hyper-V Connector

·      Correct handling of UPN-formatted service accounts supports successful authentication and data aggregation against remote SCVMM servers.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Connector

·      Corrected host and datacenter mapping improves the accuracy of reporting, grouping, and license allocation in Snow Atlas and Snow License Manager.

Snow XML Connector

·      Allowing network adapter data without a MAC address aligns validation with the XML schema and improves XML data-processing reliability.

Release information

Product: Snow Integration Manager

Release Tier: Minor Release

Release Version: 26.3.0

Release Date: 2026-09-21

Release Availability: GA

Release Notes: SIM 26.3.0 Release Notes

Product Documentation: SIM Documentation, ITSM Documentation

Distribution method: Installer available for downloads here