DisplayNote Screen Sharing Software Updates October 2024

Enhanced Session Control with “Control Your Session”

The “Control Your Session” feature allows users to manage screen sharing from their personal devices, ensuring control over session flow. Integrated with Moderator Mode, it restricts screen sharing to invited participants, giving presenters the freedom to manage sessions securely and efficiently from anywhere in the room.

Related: DisplayNote and Promethean Partner to Enhance Meeting Rooms

Infrared Remote Compatibility for Broader Hardware Support

DisplayNote has expanded compatibility with infrared remote controls, making it easier for users to interact with the screen on both interactive and non-touch displays. For screen manufacturers, this means their hardware solutions can cater to a wider range of users, providing flexibility and ease of use across different environments.

Commenting on the latest updates, Luke McSorley, head of product, says, “Our ‘Control Your Session’ feature gives users unmatched flexibility, allowing them to manage screen sharing seamlessly from their personal devices. Combined with Moderator Mode, it ensures that only authorized participants can share content, giving presenters full control over their sessions. Additionally, by expanding compatibility with infrared remotes, we’re enabling easier interaction with both touch and non-touch displays, providing greater versatility for screen manufacturers and end-users alike.”

Additional Features:

• Device Discovery for a Seamless Connection Experience: Connecting to devices is now more straightforward than ever. Whether using AirPlay, Miracast, or Google Cast, the Room Name will be the consistent identifier, reducing confusions and enabling quick, hassle-free connections.
• Audio Sharing with Window Content: Expanding on the “share a window” option, users can now share audio along with their content, providing a richer, more immersive experience.
• Access to DisplayNote Academy: users have access to tutorials, guides, and support via the newly integrated DisplayNote Academy link on the join page.

Another version of this article originally appeared on our sister-site Commercial Integrator on October 23, 2024. It has since been updated for My TechDecisions’ audience.

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IT admins with a Windows or Microsoft 365 tenant, a subscription with access to Windows release health in the Microsoft 365 admin center, and an eligible admin role will be able to access the feature.

As some updates can cause more issues than they fix and break certain functions, this helps give IT admins advanced warning about those issues so they can make informed decisions about pushing updates out in their organization.

How the Windows email alert feature works

When admins sign up, they’ll receive emails about new issues for the Windows versions they support, as well as updates to other issues, including changes in issue status, workarounds and issue resolution.

IT admins first need to log in to the Microsoft 365 admin center and locate Windows release health. If they don’t see this option or don’t have access to the admin center, they need to contact the organization’s global admin and request access and an admin role in the tenant, Microsoft says.

Windows release health in the Microsoft 365 admin center is available to those with an admin role for an organization/tenant with an eligible Windows or Microsoft 365 for Business subscription, Microsoft says in a blog.

How to enroll

Specifically, admins’ organization will need to have one of these subscriptions: Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3/A3/F3, Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5/A5, Windows 10 Enterprise E3/A3, Windows 10 Enterprise E5/A5, Windows 11 Enterprise E3/A3, or Windows 11 Enterprise E5/A5.

By default, the person who purchased the organization’s Microsoft business subscription is the global admin.

To subscribe to Windows release health emails, visit the Windows release health in the Microsoft 365 admin center and navigate to Preferences > Email and select Send me email notifications about Windows release heath.

From there, admins can enter up to two email addresses per admin account to receive notifications. Addresses can also include distribution lists so IT can keep colleagues informed of issues even if they don’t have access to the admin center.

Admins can also select which versions of Windows thy want to be notified about. However, if one known issue affects multiple versions of Windows, admins will only see one email.

The notification body will include the full content published about the issue in the Windows release health section of the Microsoft 365 admin center. Admins will see the status, versions affected, and links to view the message in the admin center.

When available, the text will include links to resources with additional information, along with associated KB articles that can address or resolve an issue.

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However, those systems are typically located on Earth. Imagine trying to patch a system on an entirely different planet.

That’s apparently what NASA just did, sending a major software update more than 150 million miles away to the Curiosity rover designed to enable the wheeled robot to drive faster and reduce wear and tear on its wheels that it has endured for over a decade.

In addition, NASA made about 180 other changes in the update, which required Curiosity to essentially be shut down between April 3 and April 7, the space agency says in a press release. This is the equivalent of upgrading a Windows 10 device to Windows 11, albeit from a different planet.

While Microsoft, Google and other tech giants spend a considerable amount of time preparing updates and rolling them out, NASA took nine years to develop and send out this update to Curiosity, with the last update going back to 2016.

Other changes include making corrections to the messages the rover sent back to Earth and simplifications to computer code that had been altered by previous patches.

Software update to help navigate Mars terrain

According to NASA, Curiosity can now do more of what it calls “thinking while driving” – performing in a more advanced way to navigate around rocks and sand traps. This is something that NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, does to help navigate the Mars terrain. Perseverance constantly snaps pictures of the terrain ahead, processing them with a dedicated computer so it can autonomously navigate during one continuous drive.

However, Curiosity isn’t equipped with a dedicated computer for that purpose, instead driving in segments and stopping to process imagery of the terrain after each segment. That results in many stops and starts over the course of a long drive.

The update will help Curiosity process images faster and spend more time on the move, according to NASA.

A new algorithm to protect Curiosity’s wheels

To reduce the wear and tear on the rover’s aluminum wheels which have been showing signs of broke treads since 2013, NASA included in the update a new algorithm designed to improve traction and reduce wheel wear by adjusting the rover’s speed depending on the rocks it’s rolling over.

The update also includes two new mobility commands that reduce the amount of steering the rove needs to do while driving in an arc toward a specific waypoint, helping to further preserve the life of the wheels.

The software update will also help the human controllers on Earth plan the rover’s movements and will make future software updates easier to deploy, according to NASA.

IT admins pushing out a major patch or update may cross their fingers, but doing so across 150 million miles of space is a bit more nerve-wracking, says Jonathan Denison, the rover’s engineering operations team chief, in a statement.

“The idea of hitting the install button was a little scary,” Denison says. “Despite all our testing, we never know exactly what will happen until the software is up there.”

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