Features deprecated in Meridian Enterprise 2018

Meridian Enterprise has evolved considerably to keep pace with our customers' needs since its debut in the year 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 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 These features have been selected either because they have been replaced by newer features with better functionality or because the technology used by the older features has become obsolete or cannot be maintained together with newer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.

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

Features deprecated in Meridian Enterprise 2018

Feature	Replacement
PowerUser 32-bit and 64-bit client applications	Meridian Power web client Continued use of PowerUser requires different licenses (product codes that begin with M--DPC). The remaining functional differences between PowerUser and Meridian Power will be resolved in future Meridian releases.
The All vaults and Selected vaults options in the Find dialog in Meridian Power.	Not planned.
AutoCAD link 32-bit client components	Not planned.

What this means for your organization is, effective on the date of release of Meridian Enterprise 2018, 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 support 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.

For a list of additional features to be deprecated in future releases, see the BlueCielo knowledge base.