EISNet v1.8 is out the door. Now for v1.9

Project Nessy is officially released and now being installed in schools. We will be working on an upgrade script so that existing v1.7 sites can be upgraded to v1.8 (providing there are no Windows XP devices). Once that is done, our attention starts to focus on EISNet v1.9

So what is the plan?

Our intention has always been to move to the .Net Framework for the entire EISNet product. We have successfully achieved this for all Client side tools in v1.8. We now need to start work on the bigger task of rewriting Management Studio. This is the primary focus for v1.9.

We have no time scale yet. We need to evaluate the task ahead in the coming months, but it will be released in 2015.

We are hoping to include some new features, which include;

• Class/group based structure
• Vastly improved tools for teachers to manage children and their devices
• Improved importing of users directly from SIMS
• Better package management and deployment
• Improved feedback when completing all types of tasks
• Jobs continue to run (for example, importing users) once Management Studio is closed
• Ability to view whether a device is on-line and who is logged onto it.

These are just a few of the improvements we are aiming to put into v1.9, but it does depend on a number of factors.