Arch Red Guest Server v3.0 is coming

A new version (v3.0.0) of Arch Red's guest management software (Arch Red Guest Server v3.0) is nearing its release. A pre-release demo version (2.9.13) is already installed to our demo site. For more information about the demo and user credentials see:

http://www.archred.com/products/arch-red-guest-server/arch-red-guest-server-demo

Guest Server 2.8.0 released

Arch Red Guest Server version 2.8.0 is now available. The version number jump from 2.6.x is an indication of a substantial change: the guest server now handles the time in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). The user interface stays the same, but the users are now associated with a time zone. This change helps organisations that operate on multiple time zones. For example, the user can be located in Finland while the Guest Server runs in the headquarters in Australia's Adelaide *.

The user associated time zones add to the Guest Server's existing support for internationalization and localization. Global organisations can better serve their customers internally and those who want to run guest sever as a service can now offer their service word wide.

Other changes include enhanced support for multiple languages and easier Guest Server installation. Also included is the previously blogged support for duration for all guest account types.

* The normal time in Finland is UTC+2 while Adelaide in southern central Australia uses UTC +9:30. Both observe daylight savings time, but one has to remember that southern hemisphere switches to DST during the autumn while northern hemisphere changes during the spring, as seen from Finland. The exact time difference between Finland and southern central Australia is left as an excercise for the reader ...

Guest Server 2.6.1 released

Arch Red Guest Server 2.6.1 has been released. The release includes one feature and many small enhancements. Now when creating guest accounts, the duration for the accounts can be set.

What is duration? For example, a guest account is created so that it is valid until December 31st and has duration of 24 hours. The guest can log in any time before December 31st, and when the first login happens, the account is valid only for the next 24 hours.

Duration could be specified in the previous versions too, but only for anonymous accounts. Now the duration is also available for personal accounts.

See the demo page for more information about WWW and RADIUS demo.

Guest Server 2.6 and demo are here

Yesterday version 2.6 of Arch Red Guest Server was released. Along the new release, the demo was also updated and upgraded significantly. Besides WWW interface, the RADIUS interface is now available for connecting one's own RADIUS gear to see how the guest accounts work.

The reason for bringing the RADIUS interface available is to have a way to demonstrate what is possible with Radiator. Serving basic authentication protocols, EAP for WPA and WPA2 and returning tags associated with guest accounts is just a small scratch on the surface, but should provide a good starting point. For example, all kinds of possibilities are available when utilising Guest Server's tag support.

Thanks go to Karri for suggesting the RADIUS demo!

Arch Red Guest Server v2.6 getting near completion

Lately I have been working on the next release of Arch Red Guest Server. Version 2.6 includes new features and enhancements requested by our customers. Some examples are:

• Guest account printing to PDF labels (badges, stickers, etc.)
  
• Full internationalization support
  
• A number of user interface enhancements
• More configuration possibilities and controls for administrators

PDF label printing is handy when using the Guest Server as an integrated customer registration and access control solution. PDF label size can be variable, they can contain your desired logo and any text you see required, such as reminder about acceptable use policy.

The PDF label printing is also the first application of the new delivery framework, which offers a new interface for printing, mailing or using other methods such as SMS for delivering the account information to guests.

Guest names and event titles can now be any language and be mailed or printed without problems with garbled fonts. It does not matter where your guests come from, be it northern Europe or Japan for example, names and event titles display correctly leading to better customer satisfaction.

The user interface has been enchanced based on customer feedback. The workflow of adding guests is more streamlined and a number of other small enancements have been added.

For administrators the new version offers more configuration options for controlling the guest account creation and enhanced installer.

I will add more information and new demo showing the new version in a couple of days.

Arch Red Guest Server version 2.0 available for testing

As a part of building the more usable and reachable networking world, Arch Red also designs and developes products. These products are designed to help the customer to get the best value from their investments to wireless networks and from their participation to community networks.

Keeping this guideline in mind, one of Arch Red's most popular products, Arch Red Guest Server, is now available for on-line trial. If you or your organisation is interested in easy-to-use guest network user management solution, it is now possible to try it out for yourself. New features include:

• multi-role user accounts to create different UIs for different users
• tags to manage created user accounts
• easy calendar functionality to create guest user accounts
  
• improved e-mail functionalities for management of guest users
  

You can get yourself an user account for two weeks on-line trial just by e-mailing basic information about you and your organisation to an e-mail address: sales(at)archred.com. Information needed include:

• Name of the person performing the trial
• Title
• E-mail address
  
• Name of the organisation
• Number of employees