DomainScan Changelog

What's new in DomainScan 6.63 Build 119

Aug 25, 2009
  • Client:
  • New: Editor to handle Device lists, including the new XML based device list format.
  • Improved: New version of the virtualization engine added which is much faster and easier to use
  • Changed: Main menu slighty reorganised
  • Service:
  • New: Support for the new XML based device list format.
  • Improved: Stability during preprocessing.
  • Changed: Domain names for user defined domains altered for "legacy" device lists.
  • Changed: Information gathering classes redone to enable multi-namespace support.
  • Fixed: Various memory leaks and potentiel buffer overrun.
  • Fixed: A bug that caused that additional devices wasn't included, unless devices we're already in the scan queue

New in DomainScan 6.62 Build 117 (Jun 30, 2009)

  • Client:
  • New: Redesigned dashboard.
  • New: Scan time graph added to the Service outlook panel
  • New: One can now pick ports in the port scanner
  • Changed: 'Trend graphs' renamed to 'Usage graphs'
  • Changed: Device UI: 'Information' renamed to 'Overview' and 'Numbers' renamed to 'Details'.
  • Changed: Dates are now generally formatted as yyyy-mm-dd instead of yyyy.mm.dd
  • Changed: DomainScan Service information moved to a 'Outlook' panel
  • Improved: Ping and port scanner user interface redesigned
  • Improved: Networt tools user interface
  • Improved: User feedback during initialization / initial scan
  • Fixed: Paused-IP Range monitors were included in the monitor-matrix view
  • Fixed: A bug in the Address Tracker UI, that caused IPv4 matches even though one were searching for IPv6 addresses
  • Service:
  • Fixed: Device CPU load exceeded 100%
  • Fixed: Online devices is marked as obsolete

New in DomainScan 6.61 Build 116 (Mar 18, 2009)

  • Client:
  • New: A click on the dashboard will now cause that the Information panel shows mount information
  • New: Click on row-headers (devices/users) to shows aggregate information in the Information panel
  • New: One can now double click on more items on the Dashboard
  • New: User Monitors can now be selected from within the user dialog
  • Changed: The outlook information panel will always be shown if an item in the device, user, monitor or date panel is selected
  • Changed: Overview renamed to Information (in the Outlook panel)
  • Changed: The Field Chooser system is completely redesigned and is now stored using XML.
  • Improved: Device and user information in the Outlook bar is redesigned.
  • Improved: Handling of the ESC sequence in device/user/domain UI's
  • Fixed: A space character between Windows and 2003 may be missing
  • Fixed: That the user count in the Domain UI summary displayed online count instead of the number of users
  • Service:
  • Fixed: Events may not be written to the event log file
  • Fixed: The device postprocessing could loop forever if a worker thread terminated unexpectedly

New in DomainScan 6.6 Build 114 (Jan 19, 2009)

  • Client:
  • New: Event settings in the Monitor wizard is now placed in its own step
  • New: CPU speed/usage, Disk size/usage and Memory size/usage is now shown
  • New: Improved Vista-support: DomainScan will now automatically query Windows for Administrator privileges
  • New: Preliminary Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 support (Based upon Beta 1)
  • New: Monitor severity can be set
  • Updated: The Device, User and Domain dialogs
  • Updated: All UI parts where monitors are shown
  • Updated: Monitor selection simplified
  • Updated: Backend middleware libraries updated to the most recent edition
  • Improved: Graphs are rendered slightly faster
  • Improved: The Device UI overview page is redesigned, and more informative, yet simpler
  • Improved: Main device list column rendering/sorting speed has improved on selected columns
  • Improved: Device and user dialogs update logic improved
  • Fixed: User information dialog: The currently used list now works correctly
  • Service:
  • New: Device peripherals information collected
  • New: The entire monitoring subsystem has been replaced with an updated Control engine, which unifies all processing
  • New: CPU speed/usage, Disk size/usage and Memory size/usage is now collected so that the Client can extract information faster
  • New: Preliminary Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 support (Based upon Beta 1)
  • Changed: GDB revision is now 3.8
  • Changed: Using Windows NT4 as the host OS is no longer usable
  • Changed: 'Peripherals' information is now collected during the 1st scan
  • Changed: Severity can now go beyond 99 with AutoIncrease
  • Updated: Unified monitor/event processing, so that Messages and summaries can be extracted as HTML and Text.
  • Updated: Backend middleware libraries updated to the most recent edition
  • Updated: The interface library is now built with Visual Studio 2008
  • Fixed: A bug in the OSVersion() function that caused that the Vista version is shown incorrectly

New in DomainScan 6.53 Build 112 (Aug 21, 2008)

  • New: One can now use Ctrl 1..5 to navigate the tabs in the main panel.
  • New: One can now copy the content of a cell in grids by using Ctrl C
  • New: Option so that one can disable balloon tips in the main window.
  • New: Explore menu added to the Device dialog.
  • Improved: One can now connect to a device both by name and IP address.
  • Improved: Device tracking UI
  • Improved: User feedback in various places.
  • Reworked: Setup interface.
  • Fixed: Random �comm error� bug while retrieving information about a user from the directory.
  • Fixed: [Bug 98] Content not cleared, when a filter option from the combo box was applied
  • Fixed: A bug in device-tracking that caused that the shown device type was always equal to the current type.
  • Service:
  • New: Information gathering from the LanManager service is optional
  • New: Users within a domain will now be marked as obsolete 90 days after they are removed from the directory.
  • Improved: Scanning algorithm and related sub-algorithms
  • Fixed: The �Event cleared� notification is now issued correctly
  • Removed: Support for old �DomainScan Light� main registry key

New in DomainScan 6.52 Build 110 (Jun 11, 2008)

  • Client:
  • New: One can now clear the �recent files� list.
  • New: �Default path� option in Setup.
  • Improved: The user interface is slightly updated.
  • Improved: Database mount time reduced.
  • Improved: Database caching highly improved and much more efficient.
  • Improved: Database reader engine, which causes higher performance and fixes some outstanding issues (such as bug #90 and #91)
  • Improved: DomainScan Pro service monitor.
  • Improved: User feedback during scan, in particular during initial scan.
  • Changed: Database cache size is now 64MB (up from 32MB)
  • Changed: [Local users] is now counted in when the number of online domains are calculated in the dashboard.
  • Changed: The �service installation� user interface is completely redesigned and is much more informative.
  • Changed: �Search� renamed to �Network search�
  • Changed: �Preferences� renamed to �DomainScan Pro Setup�
  • Service:
  • Changed: Pre-commit files renamed.
  • Changed: The default registry key-name is now �DomainScan Pro�. However �DomainScan� will be used on existing installations.
  • Fixed: A bug that caused that notifications about connection problems were never cleared if the device were offline in the following scan
  • Improved: Service management routines
  • Fixed: An error, which could lead to problems when DomainScan was running on Windows 2000 (or NT 4)
  • Improved: GDB performance and stability