November 18th, 2011Support for new Windows 2.0 Task Scheduler:
· Hyena v8.8 fully supports the Windows 2.0 task scheduler used by Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Options include viewing all scheduled tasks on one or more computers, viewing tasks by folder location, showing running tasks, task termination and more.
Viewing Tasks on Multiple Computers:
· Viewing tasks on a single computer is one thing. But trying to see if the same task is scheduled on multiple computers can be a challenge even for Microsoft's own tools. Just as with the Windows Task Scheduler 1.0 interface in Hyena's previous versions, you can also view all scheduled tasks, and sort appropriately, for all computers accessible by Hyena.
View Tasks by Folder or by Computer:
· Tasks with the new Task Scheduler are folder-based, which is great for organizing tasks into different management areas. But what if you don't know which folder the task is in ? Hyena does not force anyone to know what task a folder might be in. You can choose to either see all tasks on a computer (ie a 'flat view'), or if you know the folder location, you can navigate the task folder structure and go right to it.
May 24th, 2011Improved 'Manage Directory Attributes' Capability:
· Hyena can now modify Active Directory attributes using multiple values from existing directory attributes. Instead of using complex scripts to perform this action, now full or partial values from one or more attributes can be used to update Active Directory.
Enhanced Active Directory User Group Membership View:
· Active Directory user group memberships now can be viewed more easily, including the capability to view user group membership for multiple users. By using the powerful sorting and exporting capabilities in Hyena, this information can now be quickly and easily managed or reported through Microsoft Excel.
New Advanced Settings:
· Two new advanced settings have been added, which can be set under Tools->Settings->Advanced.
Re-Enabling RAS (Dialin Tab) for Windows 7:
· Due to changes made by Microsoft in Windows 7, current release versions of Hyena will forceably disable the RAS (Dialin) properties when viewing the User Properties. This was done to prevent errors when attempting to view or save any dialin settings, since these errors were creating a large number of support incidents. These errors were the result of Microsoft changing Windows 7 system components that essentially disabled the RAS functionality. When used on Windows 7, Microsoft's own Active Directory Users and Computers snapin will also not display any RAS/Dialin settings.
· Microsoft may have either addressed these issues, or this may only be a continuing issue when a Windows 7 client is used to manage a pre-Windows 2008 domain. To allow the possibility that some configurations can still be used to manage user dialin settings, the user properties Dialin tab can be re-enabled on a Windows 7 client by setting to true the Advanced setting ForceWindows7RAS. Note that you must still also turn on the option to show user RAS (dialup) information on the Tools->Settings->User dialog. This setting also has no effect on the Shell Properties for a user as these dialogs are still controlled by Microsoft.
· If changing this setting, Hyena must be restarted. When enabled, the Hyena user properties dialog will have a Dialin tab. If an error is encountered when trying to view or save the Dialin settings, then the client does not have the right Microsoft support libraries to manage RAS settings. Turning this advanced setting back off will prevent the errors.
Hiding Junction Points:
· Microsoft uses file system Junction Points (called "Reparse Points") to provide backward compatibility for some Windows folders. These folders are usually pointers to another location and are therefore usually, but not always, inaccessible. Attempts to access the contents will result in 'Access Denied' errors. Hyena will now display these junction points with an alternate icon image, with a shortcut arrow, next to the folder, similar to what is done now in Windows Explorer when run on Windows 2008 or Windows 7. Normally, these directories are hidden by default in Windows Explorer, but they can be displayed by using the View menu options.
· Hyena will by default display all system files and folders, including junction points. To turn on or off the option to view these special system pointers on directory displays, use the HideFileReparsePoints setting.
November 5th, 2010New Features:
Exchange 2007/2010 Integration:
· At last, Hyena now supports basic mailbox functions and Exchange properties administration for Exchange 2010. While the mailbox create/disable functions are only supported on Exchange 2010, the mailbox Properties integration will work on any Active Directory-supported Exchange version, including Exchange 2007. And, although the installation of Powershell is required for Exchange 2010 mailbox creation, the Exchange Administration tools no longer need to be installed.
· Exchange 2007 users can immediately start managing user Exchange properties now !
Additional Terminal Services Features:
One of the many relatively unknown features in all versions of Windows is the internal inclusion of Terminal Services. Even if Terminal Services is not used or enabled, some capabilities are still present. All Windows versions have what is called a 'console session' which represents the active session that is attached to the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Hyena can now display only the console sessions for a computer, using either of these methods:
· Right click on a computer, select Sessions->Console Sessions.
· Expand a computer in the left window, select Sessions->Console Sessions.
· To display the console sessions for multiple computers, select the computers in the right window. Once the console sessions are displayed, messages can be sent to them by selecting them from the right window, and selecting Send Message. This method of sending messages does NOT require the messenger service, which is now essentially removed from modern Windows versions.
· Remotely Controlling Sessions
· The 'Remote Control' feature found in the Microsoft Terminal Services Manager utility (TsAdmin.exe) is now available in Hyena. To remotely control another session, you must first be running Hyena in a remote session. Then, display the Terminal Server sessions for a computer, select the session to remote control, and select Remote Control from the context menu. The behavior and functionality of this feature should be the same as using TsAdmin.exe.
User Image Rules:
· By default, Hyena will only show a different image for disabled user accounts. Hyena can now be configured to show up to 10 (ten) different images for users depending on different states including disabled, locked, password expiration, and account expiration settings. Moreover, the application of these images can be prioritized depending on the importance you place on them.
· For example, if knowing visually that an account is locked out is important, then this 'user image rule' can be placed at the top priority. Or, if accounts that have expired (passed the account expiration date) is important to know, then its image rule can be placed higher in the rule list. Individual rules can be enable/disabled as well.
AD User Query Symbols:
· While Active Directory contains a great deal of information, often the formatting of some elements leaves a bit to be desired. For example, while the directory (LDAP) path contains the container name where the object is found, it can be difficult to parse out for reporting. Hyena now supports several special symbols that can be placed into its AD queries for showing object container, password age, days until account expiration, and more.
June 30th, 2010· User Communication Portal
· The User Communication Portal is a new option available for Active Directory users.
· The Communication Portal queries the known Active Directory attributes that are related to email, phone, and web addresses and displays the values. Templates can then be created for email and phone contacts, or web addresses can be visited directly. The email communication uses the mailto:: protocol. This protocol supports specifying default values for the subject, cc:, bcc:, and message body of the email. These are all optional values and are stored into the template. By creating multiple templates, a different message type can be configured for different purposes, ie a scheduled system shutdown, company announcement, etc.
· The calling communication uses the callto:: protocol. This protocol uses a number of parameters and settings, and can be used with NetMeeting, Skype, and other communication systems.
· New Update Check Utility
· Hyena's older 'Check for Updates' facility has been disabled when run on Windows Vista and later, due to problems with the User Account Control (UAC) facility. In order to have greater control and UAC compatibility, we've created our own update checking system. When executed, a small dialog is displayed which shows the license information currently being used. This new system can be run manually from Hyena, through its own shortcut, or automatically (the default) every 30 days when running Hyena.
· Exporter Pro Improvements
· Exporter Pro can now be used to export Terminal Server session and process information. These new exports are available on the 'Other' export properties tab.
· Exporter Pro 64-bit Version
· To prevent errors caused by missing 32-bit libraries, Exporter Pro is now available in a native 64-bit version.
November 17th, 2009Now Available for the x64 Platform:
· Hyena v8.0 is the first release built to support the 64-bit platform. Take advantage of the full potential of the 64-bit processor and Windows 64-bit components, especially for large-scale Active Directory projects. To upgrade to any 64-bit version, simply download and install the 64-bit version (English, French, German, or Spanish)
Support for Windows 2008 Fine-Grained Password Policies:
· Windows 2008 introduced a great new feature for creating multiple levels of password policies. Unfortunately, there isn't any direct GUI interface in Windows to manage these new policies...until now!.
Improved Remote Desktop Integration:
· Hyena can now directly access the built-in Remote Desktop (RD) client without the need for custom tools. Moreover, the options used can be completely customized for any RD configuration.
Other Changes:
· Event Time Offsets - Showing events using an offset filter allows an interval of time to be specified instead of a definitive starting and ending time. Offset settings can be aa set internal of days, hours, or minutes.
· Improved Active Directory Attribute Management - The attribute editor of the Manage Directory Attribute function can now be directly accessed for a single attribute for one or more selected objects in any AD query. For example, to modify the logon script of one or more users, execute an AD query that contains the 'scriptPath' attribute. Select one or more users, then right click somewhere in the column area of the logon script attribute in the right window. The menu option will be titled Modify 'Script'. Hyena will then display the attribute editor and allow updating the logon script attribute.
· Additionally, the resulting view from the 'View All Directory Attributes' function has been improved to also support modification of any attribute displayed.
May 2nd, 2009· A number of advanced options (see below), as well as a new View option, has been added to the Active Directory user photo integration. A new help topic has also been added to fully explain user photo storage in Active Directory.
· A new 'Advanced' dialog has been added to the Tools->Settings dialog, for easier control of the many advanced settings in Hyena. New advanced settings for user photo integration, ping, and others have been added. See the Advanced Settings topic in Hyena's help file for a complete list and descriptions.
· A new option for logging WMI queries and method executions has been added to the Tools->Settings dialog.
· A number of new features have been added to Exporter Pro, including exporting of open file information and file version information. Support has also been added for inclusion of special symbols in output file names for date and time values. See the Release Notes section in the Exporter Pro help file for a complete list of changes.
December 10th, 2008· Improvements to User Photos in Active Directory
· A number of advanced options (see below), as well as a new View option, has been added to the Active Directory user photo integration. A new help topic has also been added to fully explain user photo storage in Active Directory.
· New Advanced Options
· A new 'Advanced' dialog has been added to the Tools->Settings dialog, for easier control of the many advanced settings in Hyena. New advanced settings for user photo integration, ping, and others have been added. See the Advanced Settings topic in Hyena's help file for a complete list and descriptions.
· WMI Logging
· A new option for logging WMI queries and method executions has been added to the Tools->Settings dialog.
· Exporter Pro Improvements
· A number of new features have been added to Exporter Pro, including exporting of open file information and file version information. Support has also been added for inclusion of special symbols in output file names for date and time values. See the Release Notes section in the Exporter Pro help file for a complete list of changes.
June 13th, 2008· Increased the maximum number of user-defined tools to 99.
· Enabled displaying a disabled user account icon when viewing group members on Windows NT or local user groups.
· Changed Hyena event searching method to always allow searching in the event description field even if its not been added to the display columns. Previously, Hyena would only enable the option to search the event description field if it was displayed.
· Modified the Send Message function to allow entry of optional 'From' field.
· Fixed a problem causing Hyena to crash when a root computer or domain controller object was right clicked on in the left tree window.
· Increased size of Manage Directory Attributes multi-value edit dialog and fixed problem with long text not being scrollable.
· Created a new warning dialog when copying data to the clipboard/file (Control-C) that may have been truncated due to Windows limitation. The warning message can be disabled after seeing it for the first time.
· Created a new warning dialog when copying data to files (Control-C) and the output file already exists and will be overwritten. The warning message can be disabled after seeing it for the first time.
· Removed the restriction of not being able to use the '' character in a username since this character needs to be used when creating 'escaped' character sequences for LDAP compatibility.
December 19th, 2007· The 'Show Trusts' function has been enhanced to show more information, including trust direction, type, and other trust attributes
· Added a new menu option to the context menu for users, groups, or computers: "List Parent Container Contents". This option will display any directory objects in the same container as the selected object
· Added an additional count when viewing indirect group members, showing the 'net' count of individual user group members (users only) without counting any group members. When viewing indirect group members, Hyena scans all nested groups (up to 10 levels) and counts as direct members any group member. The 'Net Indirect Member' count include only non-group members.
· Improved the status display and 'Stop' button responsiveness when reading event logs from multiple computers and/or event logs.
· Added options for enabling Active Directory encryption using SSL and for enabling Active Directory Kerberos-based encryption using signing and sealing.
· Added an advanced setting for controlling the registry values (fields) that get displayed on the Computer Properties->Software dialog
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