What's new in FastTrack Automation Studio 5.7.1

Mar 11, 2010
  • New commands: SetUserStartupItem, RemoveUserStartupItem, SetStartupItem, RemoveStartupItem, AssociateExtension, UnassociateExtension, AssociateUserExtension and UnassociateUserExtension.

New in FastTrack Automation Studio 5.7 (Feb 25, 2010)

  • Script encryption is not supported. When you purchase a license, you will get a personal encryption key. Read more about this here.
  • The ConnectShare command now has an optional DisplayName parameter. This name is displayed in the users' explorer instead of the UNC path.
  • New conditions: Windows32bit and Windows64bit.
  • New functions: UserLanguage, OperatingSystemLanguage and Random.
  • New commands: Beep, ClearEventLog, ShowDesktop and RestoreDesktop.
  • New collections: UserOUs and OUs.

New in FastTrack Automation Studio 5.6.3 (Jan 14, 2010)

  • New proxy commands: EnableProxyServer, DisableProxyServer and SetProxyServer and a new command "RefreshEnvironment" to make Windows refresh settings, when environment related settings are changed directly in the registry. All menus are now resizable and dragable.

New in FastTrack Automation Studio 5.6.2 (Dec 9, 2009)

  • Contains a few new conditions: "If Server", "If Workstation", "If WindowsNT4", "If Windows2000", "If WindowsXP", "If WindowsVista", "If Windows7", "If Windows2003" and "If Windows2008". These are especially useful when switching the logon script to administrative context and you want to do something only on certain operating systems.

New in FastTrack Automation Studio 5.6 (Dec 5, 2009)

  • Contains mainly new engine functionality. New Commands: ShowWebPage, EmptyRecycleBin, Zip and UnZip. New Functions: HtmlEncode, HtmlDecode, UrlEncode, UrlDecode.

New in FastTrack Automation Studio 5.5 (Nov 29, 2009)

  • Contains enhancements in the property builder. The property builder now has the same features as the editing windows: Code completion, code correction and syntax highlighting.

New in FastTrack Automation Studio 5.4 (Nov 29, 2009)

  • Contained code completion. When typing something, the editor suggests and explains possible functionality that starts with the typed letters, check screendump in the Getting Started Guide. In the screen dump, 5 commands starting with "co" are suggested.

New in FastTrack Automation Studio 5.3 (Nov 29, 2009)

  • Contained the script validator. Before saving or executing a scripts or using the validator button, a simulated run is executed to test if the script is actually able to execute. This means that you cannot save a script that is syntactically invalid (unless you uncheck the "Validate Before Save" setting).

New in FastTrack Automation Studio 5.2 (Nov 20, 2009)

  • The version 5 branch contains the long awaited new scripting editor.
  • The engine contains some new active directory functionality:
  • New Active Directory conditions to test membership of Active Directory OUs: UserIsInOU and IsInOU.
  • New Active Directory functions to get the users top-most or bottom-most OU: UserFirstOU and UserLastOU.
  • New Active Directory functions to get the computers top-most or bottom-most OU: FirstOU and LastOU.
  • New Active Directory functions to get Active Directory distinguished names: UserDistinguishedName and DistinguishedName