It has been our tradition to NOT post updates during the holiday season.  No matter how much we test, Murphy’s Law can always take place.

As noted in our recent newsletter, we have been working on a significant upgrade titled ASW 12 ( MLS 12 ).  You can read about all it includes there.  However, we’ve made a couple of small adjustments to ASW 11.  So we will be issuing an update, version 11.14.35.  We are actually posting it on 1/1/22, so when you arrive at work after your New Years Eve celebration, it should auto update on each workstation.  Most people will not notice any operational changes, though a couple of features have been updated for individual requests and/or needs.

This new build will be constructed with the very latest programming tools/llanguages/interfaces from Microsoft.  Since much of their code has been optimized in this new release of their product, you may see some improvements in performance, especially if you have machines now running Windows 11.

One special note upfront.  As Microsoft makes Windows 11 available on more computers, they have been releasing updates to Windows 10 to prep them.  If you find you are having networking problems or workstations cannot connect with the ADS server, the most common reason is an incomplete Windows update.  If so, we suggest you shut down all workstations, then reboot the server, and then restart your workstations.  We’re not talking about ASW here.  This is about Windows.  Don’t just go to a main screen.  Physically power off all workstations using the Windows Shut Down option.  Then select the Restart/Reboot option in Windows on the server.  The odds are very likely that this will resolve your problem.

We hope as you celebrate your special end of the year holiday, that it be special and bring you great joy.  Thanks for partnering with us over the years and we look forward to an exciting new year.

IMPORTANT NOTE

We are often asked about a “cloud based application”.  Yes, we could offer it, but we do not for two simple reasons:

1). Most of our clients do not have sufficient internet service to handle multiple computers interacting with a cloud server at the same time.  Also cloud servers provide data in small segments and our clients love to see everything on one screen at one time.

2). Cloud systems do fail, or go offline, and then you have no program access whatsoever.

The problems with cloud servers is amplified because most use servers provided by large companies, and these are prone to continuous attacks and “denial of service” hacks.  Amazon servers, used by many large companies, has been downed twice now in recent weeks.  

For fast, secure, reliable service we continue to provide a locally based server program.  If you do need mobile, or remote, access, it is available on our current systems.  We’ll provide more information on this after the first of the year, but it’s very easy to do, and has been built in for years.