Summary The SKU and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL libraries have been published and are now available.  Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, November 30 th 2020 in your time zone.  What's new in this release Over 10,300 new SKUs have been added. The table below provides an overview of the number of SKUs with respect to publisher.  A set of Veritas SKUs have been updated with its Tier information. Few PURL templates have been for IBM RVU and custom metrics.  New PURL templates have been added for Kofax and Developer Express publishers.  Published 7 new IBM bundles.   Manufacturer/Publisher Number of newly added SKUs 1 Altova 5,436 2 Bentley Systems 1,520 3 Claris 856 4 Splunk 630 5 Others 1,862 Total   10,304 SKU library information  are as follows, Total number of SKUs in the library is 2,011,873 across 721 publishers. Total number of PURL templates is 3,339 across the blade publishers. Total number of published Bundles is 4,369 across 17 publishers. How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated?  You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900 Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’. How do I report issues with SKU Library updates?  Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address: support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America) support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific) The regular schedule for SKU/PURL updates  We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Thursday, December 24 th  2020.  The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, December 28 th 2020 in your time zone.   Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually  The ARL and SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).  Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe... Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update.  Regards, Team Content ... View more

Summary The SKU and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL libraries have been published and are now available.  Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, October 26 th  2020 in your time zone.  What's new in this release Over 6,203 new SKU’s have been added. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKU’s with respect to publisher:  S No Manufacturer Newly added SKUs 1 Flexera 4131 2 IBM 1176 3 Techsmith 464 4 Kofax 160 5 Others 272 Total   6,203   A new publisher bundle has been added i.e, JetBrians. Few new PURL templates have been added for Tibco and IBM SKU library information are as follows, Total number of SKUs in the library is 2,001,727 across 718 publishers. Total number of PURL templates is 3,275 across the blade publishers. Total number of published Bundles is 4,351 across 16 publishers. Added 16 new bundles. Below table provides a publisher wise summary : Publisher Name Bundles Published VMware 10 Veritas 4 Red Gate Software 1 JetBrains 1   How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated?  You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900 Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’.   How do I report issues with SKU Library updates?  Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address: support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America) support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific)   The regular schedule for SKU/PURL updates  We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Friday, November 27 th  2020.  The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, November 30 th 2020 in your time zone.   Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually  The ARL and SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).  Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe... Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update. Regards, Team Content ... View more

Summary The SKU and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL libraries have been published and are now available.  Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, September 28 th  2020 in your time zone.  1. What's new in this release Over 6,365 new SKU’s have been added. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKU’s with respect to publisher:  S No Manufacturer Newly added SKUs 1 Autodesk 3735 2 Ipswitch 1207 3 Avg Technologies 361 4 IBM 318 5 Others 744 Total   6,365   Library information are as follows, Total number of SKUs in the library is  1,995,673 across 709 publishers . Total number of PURL templates is 3263 across the blade publishers. Total number of published Bundles is 4,335 across 15 publishers. 2. How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated?  You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900 Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’. 3. How do I report issues with SKU Library updates?  Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address: support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America) support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific) 4. The regular schedule for SKU/PURL updates  We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Friday, October 23 rd  2020.  The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, October 26 th 2020 in your time zone. 5.Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually  The ARL and SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).  Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe... Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update.  Regards, Team Content ... View more

Summary The SKU and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL libraries have been published and are now available.  Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, August 31 st  2020 in your time zone.  1. What's new in this release Over 47,111 new SKU’s have been added. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKU’s with respect to publisher:  S No Manufacturer Newly added SKUs 1 Symantec 38003 2 Adobe 8109 3 Microsoft 249 4 Quest Software 85 5 Others 665 Total   47111 SKU library information are as follows, Total number of SKUs in the library is 1,989,310 across 703 publishers . Total number of PURL templates is 3,253 across the blade publishers. Total number of published Bundles is 4,335 across 15 publishers.   2. How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated?  You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900 Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’. 3. How do I report issues with SKU Library updates?  Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address: support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America) support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific)   4. The regular schedule for SKU/PURL updates  We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Friday, September 25 th  2020.  The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, September 28 th 2020 in your time zone. 5. Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually  The ARL and SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).  Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe... Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update.   Regards, Team Content   ... View more

Summary The SKU and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL libraries have been published and are now available.  Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, July 27 th  2020 in your time zone.  1. What's new in this release Over 14749 new SKU’s have been added. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKU’s with respect to publisher:  S No. Manufacturer Newly added SKUs 1 Adobe 5670 2 Veritas 4052 3 VMware 2305 4 Ipswitch 2129 5 Others 593 Total   14749   Added 10 new bundles. The following provides a summary of the number of Bundles with respect to Publisher: Publisher Name Bundles Published IBM 9 TechSmith 1   SKU library information are as follows, Total number of SKUs in the library is 1,942,156 across 680 publishers . Total number of PURL templates is 3,241 across the blade publishers. Total number of published Bundles is 4,333 across 15 publishers.   2. How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated?  You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900 Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’.   3. How do I report issues with SKU Library updates?  Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address: support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America) support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific)   4. The regular schedule for SKU/PURL updates  We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Friday, August 28 th  2020.  The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, August 31 st 2020 in your time zone.   5. Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually  The ARL and SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).  Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe... Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update.  Regards, Team Content ... View more

Summary The SKU and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL libraries have been published and are now available.  Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, June 29 th  2020 in your time zone.  1. What is new in this release Over 31461 new SKU’s have been added. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKU’s with respect to publisher:  S No Manufacturer Newly added SKUs 1 Citrix 19134 2 VMware 9402 3 GFI 772 4 Autodesk 569 5 IBM 480 6 Adobe 343 7 Others 761 Total 31461   Added 10 new bundles. The following provides a summary of the number of Bundles with respect to Publisher: Manufacturer #Bundles IBM 05 VMware 03 Veritas 02   SKU/PURL/Bundle library information are as follows, Total number of SKUs in the library is 1,927,407 across 672 publishers. Total number of PURL templates is 3,231 across the blade publishers. Total number of published Bundles is 4,323 across 15 publishers. 2. How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated?  You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900 Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’. 3. How do I report issues with SKU Library updates?  Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address: support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America) support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific)   4. The regular schedule for SKU/PURL updates  We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Friday, July 24 th , 2020. The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, July 27 th 2020 in your time zone. 5. Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually  The ARL and SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).  Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe... Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update.    Regards, Team Content ... View more

The   Application Recognition Library (ARL), as used by FlexNet Manager, has been updated. The updated version for the ARL is   #2519. The   Service Life Data Pack   available version is   #357.   What's new in this release Changes to note: 70 publishers have been updated according to their current copyright. Count of new applications added: Publisher Number of Applications Software in Public Interest 96 Wondershare 56 Microsoft 46 Apple 33 Oracle 19 Gallagher & Robertson 17 Micro Focus 17 IBM 13 GeoSoft 10 Amazon.com 10 Other 86 Publishers 201 Total 518   Current Library Totals: Number of applications in ARL:  304 ,883 across   17,974 publishers. Number of evidence recognition rules:   1,045,102 Installer evidence rules: 687,580 File evidence rules: 356,228 WMI evidence rules: 1,294 Application suite evidence rules: 360 Number of commercial applications with service life dates:   53,286 Details of changes in the ARL You can inspect changes made in this ARL release as per the following links: List of new applications added:   https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewApplicationsARL251... List of new versions of applications added:   https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewVersionsARL2519 List of new publishers added:  https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewPublishersARL2519 List of applications updated in the release:   https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=UpdatedApplicationsAR...   Updating library data FlexNet Manager Cloud:   These updates are expected to be installed prior to Monday, June 15, 2020. FlexNet Manager On-premises:   This library release will be applied to your FlexNet Manager according to schedule settings and processes configured for your instance. If your environment requires to you manually download and update library data, see the following article for guidance:   Downloading the FlexNet Manager Suite Content libraries manually. You can inspect the versions of currently installed libraries using the system Menu > System Health > System Health Dashboard menu option in FlexNet Manager. Upcoming ARL and Service Life Data Pack updates: We nominally expect the next ARL and Service Life Data Pack updates to be published on or around   Thursday, June 18, 2020.   Reporting issues with ARL and SLDP updates Should you have any issues related to FlexNet Manager library data, please submit a case by logging in to the   Flexera Community and then select the   Get Support > Open new case   menu option. We are interested in feedback on these announcements. If you have any questions or suggestions for improvements, please comment below. We trust that you will find this update helpful and look forward to continually improving your application recognition results. Flexera Content Team ... View more

Microsoft Visio and Project products differentiation w.r.t on-premise version (Microsoft Installer aka MSI) versus cloud version (Click-to-run aka C2R) has been an issue since the same installation technology i.e. C2R can be used to install both on-prem volume based purchases and cloud subscriptions. Hence, the evidence pattern for both are same and no other properties of evidence could be utilized to differentiate the versions. Solution – Content team has addressed ambiguous recognition scenarios, and considered to merge separate applications in ARL to a single application. Its respective Evidence, SKUs, PURL templates and Bundles have been handled and re linked accordingly. The new merged application is named “Office Visio <version> Professional” and application “Visio Pro for Office 365 2016” has been deleted. Our scope is version 2013, 2016 and 2019. These updates have been published in the recent Content release, which was published on 29 th May 2020 for FNMS on-prem customers and FNMS cloud customer will have their new build on 01 st June 2020 i.e, ARL build # 2517 and SKU/PURL build # 454 Action required – Please check your license positions once the new build is applied. Licenses created through ARL may need some manual intervention to allocate licenses appropriately. ... View more

FlexNet Manager C ontent libraries have been streamlined to address the acquisition of Algo products by SS&C. Over 695 unique Algo applications in Application Recognition Library (ARL) have been updated to its new publisher SS&C Technologies. These applications have its relevant SKUs linked, along with its usage right templates in PURL. We have also updated 263 Bundles to reflect this change. These updates have been published in our immediate release scheduled today, May 29th 2020 and our FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud customers w ill have the latest ARL and SKU/PURL builds by  June 01st 2020.  ... View more

Microsoft SQL Server(Unknown Component) is being recognized when only SQL Server Management Studio is installed Description - When Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is installed, there are two entries in the add/remove programs which manifests into installer evidence – one with the footprints of Management Studio and another just states SQL Server. According to the details in the evidence, ARL recognized both SQL Server Management Studio and SQL Server (Unknown Component). While Management Studio was an expected title, SQL Server(Unknown Component) which is classified as commercial, is not anticipated and hence a false recognition. Content Team has investigated this scenario and has identified a differentiating pattern for an evidence extracted from a Management Studio installation versus an actual SQL Server installation. Fix -  This discrepancy in recognition has been fixed for SQL Server Management Studio versions 2016 and 2017 and is scheduled for the upcoming ARL release on 20th March 2020. ... View more