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(7)Installation/configuration Where is Visual Guard .Net installed? What VG modules are added to the applications? How to manage several list of user/roles in one install? Our app is locked, how can we give clients admin rights? How to integrate Visual Guard in our application? How Novalys helps you to evaluate Visual Guard?	(6)Licensing and keys Request the dev. key through the Console? What if we exceed the allowed number of users? Request a license key through the VG Console? Development, Test, and Production license How can I reassign a user if someone leaves the company? Do we need to request one key per repository ?	(28)Technical requirements Which OS and Data Bases are supported? Does VG use a specific port? Can Visual Guard manage web services applications installed on "virtual machines"? Deploy a Web service, Web form, and Win form simultaneously? Does Visual Guard support projects with several assemblies? Can I use VG with some C++ code?
(17)Security and compliance Password Encryption Access within ASP.Net applications encryption and digital authentication Can permissions be overwritten ? Access to the source code of the application in production Interception of Windows / AD communications?	(19)How to integrate VG and secured application on the same server What is the code needed for VG to read forms? I have no web.config file, how to implement VG? Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.VGSecurityManager.SetSecurity VG integration in a Winform application When code has to be added?	(8)Administration Consoles Are VG Win and Web console synchronized? deny customers access to Visual Guard? Restrict administrator access to the applications Different colors of the users in the VG Console? Rights for the console Localization for the console?
(11)Architecture What is offline mode? Data access libraries on the customer side How to manage several projects in parallel? no direct DB access when running the admin console Where is the repository stored? Where are the permissions stored?	(15)Deployment How to deploy an application integrating VG.NET ? Application deployment How does the deployment of Visual Guard work? Option “Deploy parameters of the repository” Need to deploy everything but users Large deployments in Webform environment	(34)Authentication features How Visual Guard federates different types of users Dotnet membership and role mechanisms How to manage access to multiple applications? extend the number and type of credentials used for authentication start with anonymous session, then prompt for crendentials Are users unique to a repository?
(55)Manage Permissions how to manage contextual roles Skip Visual Guard .Net login screen Can we add role/permissions to an existing application? how can a variable appear in the permission editor? Authorization depending on data stored in the db give authorization based on business rules	(5)Manage users accounts and groups Change user profile information without loosing their roles Is it possible to temporarily block a user account? Can we create new users by code ? how to manage contextual roles How Visual Guard meets SAAS requirments	(10)Auditing features Impose a quota for the size of the auditing information? Can we use another auditing tool? Where can I find the Log option in Visual Guard .Net ? Integration with Log4Net or MS Enterprise Logging Block Is it possible to query the VG DB to get info about users? Is it possible to add options to the Audit Utility?
(8)API .Net API or web services API? Use the API to replicate the Console GUI in a web app? Any documentation about roles and the API? Can admin manage permissions from our website? Can users be added with roles through an API? Access user management without the console

Scalability is important. How well does the VISUAL GUARD scale?

How well does the VISUAL GUARD scale? Visual Guard has been designed to support a large volume of registered and concurrent users. * In the case of an MVC application, you basically don't have to change your infrastructure to run Visual Guard, whatever the number of users. If your application can handle it, so does Visual Guard. * VG will add a set of tables to your DB, and a few .NET assemblies to your application. * To support large volumes of users, you would typically configure a DB clust...

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