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Features to be deprecated in Meridian Enterprise 2016

Meridian Enterprise has evolved considerably to keep pace with our customers' needs since its debut in 2000. We've also added many new features to keep pace with constantly evolving technology.

To best allocate our development and support resources, some older Meridian Enterprise features are being deprecated in this release. These features have been selected either because they have been replaced by newer features with better functionality or because the technology used by the older features has become obsolete or cannot be maintained together with newer technology. For example, the technology upon which the AMFS service was built is no longer supported by recent versions of the Windows operating system.

Following is a list of the deprecated features and their replacements.

Deprecated features
Feature	Replacement
Work areas	Project folders
Work isolation mode	Document type workflows or workflow definitions
BlueCielo File System (AMFS) service	Local and shared workspaces
Visual Basic 6 (COM) developer tools	BlueCielo .NET SDK

What this means for your organization is, effective on the date of release of Meridian Enterprise 2016, these features:

Will not be developed any further, including fixing any known bugs.
Will no longer be tested with each new release of Meridian Enterprise. Use them at your own risk.
Might not be supported by other features in the software and without notice.
Might be removed from the software in future releases and without notice.
New issues will not be supported by BlueCielo Technical Support or BlueCielo Professional Services. Any active issues will be resolved according to your current support level agreement.

If you have not done so already, we recommend that you make the following preparations at your earliest opportunity to minimize business disruption when you upgrade to this release:

Train administrators and end users to stop using the deprecated features and to start using the replacement features.
Modify the configuration of your environment to stop using these features.
Migrate all data managed by these features to supported features.
In the case of deprecated components, remove the components completely from your environment.
Modify any related or integrated systems accordingly.

For expert professional assistance with planning, training, or implementing these changes, please contact your BlueCielo Partner or BlueCielo Professional Services.