Resara Server Community Edition Beta1 Released

[Brendan Powers]

We are delighted to announce the release of Resara Server Beta 1!
Beta 1 has many important new features, like DNS and DHCP admin tools,
as well as being extensively tested by our 4 beta sites. 

In conjunction with this release, our website has gotten a new makeover,
and we have launched Resara Server Community Edition, which will be
the free and open source version of Resara Server once the commercial
version has been released.

In anticipation of the 1.0 release sometime next month, we consider
Beta 1 to be stable and ready for wider use.  We are also offering
professional technical support for any businesses interested in
deploying the beta before the 1.0 release.

Please go to our website and download this release!  We think you will
be impressed by how far Resara Server has progressed in these last few
months.

Also, it seems that I sent the Alpha 3 release announcement to the wrong list. So I'm including the changes for Alpha 3 as well.

Beta 1 Changes
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New Features
    * DHCP and DNS admin UIs
    * IP Change UI
    * Password Policy UI
    * The profile tab in the user editor now has browse buttons
    * When editing the home directory of a user, the directory is created if it does not exist
    * The management console will warn you if the server version doesn't match the console's
    * The CLI utilities command line arguments have been cleaned up

Bug Fixes
    * You no longer need to pass a username and password to a CLI utility when it is running on the server
    * The rdsacledit can now read permissions
    * Editing NT permissions on a folder no longer overwrites permissions on sub folders
    * User and group names always resolve properly when editing permissions in the share tab

Known Issues
    * On Windows 7, after changing the IP address of the server, it may take several minutes before the management console can connect again.


Alpha 3 Changes
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Features
 - Added rdsacledit binary. This allows command line updating of permissions.
 - A new, more robust configure script
 - The %SERVER% and %USERNAME% variables are now usable in the profile tab
 - Editing the profile path and home directory for more than one user at a time is now possible
 - Browse buttons have been added to the profile tab

Bug Fixes
 - On Jan 13, 2011 at 9:30AM auto discovery for the Linux version of the admin console stopped working
 - A fix for the "Local Error" message sometimes received while logging in with the admin console
 - A crash when folder permissions were being edited
 - Disks are now mounted at boot time
 - Fixed an issue that sometimes caused duplicate folders to appear in the shares tab
 - Several small improvements and bug fixes to the way disks are handled
 - A single keytab entry is used for authenticating rdsd, instead of exporting the entire database. This caused problems with with large domains.
 - Several fixes for the propagation of permissions to folders that did not have any
 - Adding a share no longer overwrites permissions on a folder that already has them
 - Fixed a crash when generating a random password from the change password dialog
 - The members list when editing groups now looks up user information asynchronously
 - The "Read and Execute" check box now behaves more consistently
 - The loading status is displayed in the first column only