Release notes van Password Complexity Manager

Version 1.8.1 Build 1038 (26 April 2013)

Changes

• Added the users container to the Organizational Unit structure in the OU selection dialog.
• Added a license agreement dialog to the installer.
• Added blacklist functionality. It is possible to make a black list of words or regular expression, a password may not match any items on the list.
• Added additional translations for the rules.
• Windows 8 support.

Fixes

• Fixed the compatibility issue with PCM and the SSRPM Offline, and ESSOM GINA.
• Fixed a possible crash bug in the filter DLL, this crash could also hang the domain controller.
• Fixed the issue that the password policy rules were not shown if the check "user must change password on next logon" was used on Windows 7 systems.

Version 1.8.0 Build 1037 (13th April 2012)

New features

• Multi lingual support (includes translations for English, Dutch and French).
• Minimum password age is now in minutes instead of days.
• Split the similarity rule into two rules password similarity and name similarity. The password similarity rule is only displayed and used in the GINA and the Credential Provider.

Fixes

• Fixed a possible crash bug in the PCM Admin Console when adding users.

Version 1.7.5 Build 1036 (6th March 2012)

Fixes

• Fixed the issues with the 64 bit installer.
• Fixed the issues with the similarity rule.
• Added the option to enable logging in the PCM COM object.
• Fixed the issue with the scope, that PCM could not match users in an OU unless it was a nested OU.
• Fixed domain scope.

Version 1.7.1 Build 1032 (2 December 2011)

Changes

• PCM now uses a different library for the regular expressions.
• The credential provider will display the Tools4ever logo.

Fixes

• Fixed the display issue with special characters in the rule descriptions.
• Fixed the SSRPM compatibility issue, where PCM rejects the temporary password generated by SSRPM.

Version 1.7.0 Build 1031 (30 September 2010)

New features

• Client software for Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Password Complexity Manager is compatible with Windows Server 2008

Changes

• Updated the license model

Fixes

• Fixed crash bug that occurred when a user copied a policy and then changed the copy
• PCM no longer shows an error dialog after successfully exporting the log to file
• PCM no longer shows an error dialog after when opening the log settings dialog for the first time
• Corrected the functionality of the organizational unit selection dialog.
• Corrected the order of the pages of the management dialog
• Refined the log messages
• Fixed various interface issues in the Admin console
• Updated the GINA to reduce the flickering of the icons

Version 1.2.0.25 - Initial release

Supports multiple policies
A policy can apply to specific users, Organizational Units or an entire domain
For each policy you can specify:

• The maximum password length
• The minimum password length
• The minimum password age in days
• The maximum number of consecutive identical characters
• The password must contain one or more of the following:
  - a lowercase character
  - an uppercase character
  - a number
  - a symbol
  - or a character from a set of specified characters.
• You can provide a custom regular expression to make sure the password meets a specific requirements, for example it must start with an uppercase character.

Includes a wizard to install and manage the PCM filter on the domain controllers
Includes a GINA extension to show the password requirement to the end user.