What's new in SurfCop for Microsoft ISA Server/Forefront TMG 2.1

Jun 6, 2012
  • Added:
  • Agent: full support of SP1 and SP2 of Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010
  • Agent: added support of very big files downloaded from the Internet
  • Agent: added possibility to specify the list of fields that should not be logged into the activity database. This feature allows you to reduce the space occupied by your database significantly
  • Agent: added possibility to assign several simultaneous quotas to one session. This means that from now you can assign daily, weekly and monthly quotas for one session simultaneously. Which quota will be reached first, this quota rule will block access to the Internet
  • Fixed:
  • Agent: fixed error with incorrect counting of HTTPS traffic
  • Changed/Improved:
  • Agent: improved stability of the filters and agent
  • Data Center: reports generation speed has been increased

New in SurfCop for Microsoft ISA Server/Forefront TMG 2.0 (Jun 6, 2012)

  • Added:
  • Agent: Full support of Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010
  • Agent(Quota Rules): Ability to transfer unused traffic for the next period
  • Agent(Quota Rules): Ability to specify additional actions to be performed when quota limit is reached. Among the possible actions: sending messages to the administrator, run the command or script, enable or disable firewall access rule
  • Data Center: New type of report - flat report that visualize the information through columns, but not sections
  • Data Center: New alias, allowing generation of reports in the context of organizational units of Active Directory
  • Fixed:
  • Data Center: Several bugs related to the control the maximum size of the data storage
  • Changed/Improved:
  • Agent: Improved stability of the filters
  • Agent: In the Bandwidth Quota Rule dialog added possibility to choose the Priority of rule. The Priority determines how the agent should reserve bandwidth in situations of dispute
  • Data Center: Reports generation speed has been drastically increased

New in SurfCop for Microsoft ISA Server/Forefront TMG 1.5 (Jun 6, 2012)

  • Added:
  • INDA national domains to Unicode conversion
  • Migration Wizard allowing to simplify SurfCop data and configs migration from one to another server
  • Fixed:
  • Data Center: report generation errors
  • Data Center: fixed SQL script syntax error when Oracle DBMS is used
  • Agent: bug causing infinite redirection when visiting some web sites
  • Console: small bug related to adding, editing and removing access(quote) rules
  • Changed/Improved:
  • Agent: improved filters stability
  • Data Center: reports generation speed has been increased

New in SurfCop for Microsoft ISA Server/Forefront TMG 1.4 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • Added:
  • New reports type
  • Localization of SurfCop WebStat page(10 languages)
  • Changed/Improved:
  • Help file has been renewed
  • Console icons were completely revamped
  • Requests processing time has beed reduced
  • Data Center: reports generation speed has been increased significantly
  • Fixed:
  • Memory leaks in Data Center service
  • Data Center: fixed SQL script syntax error when PostgreSQL DBMS is used

New in SurfCop for Microsoft ISA Server/Forefront TMG 1.3 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • Changed/Improved
  • All stages of requests processing were signifantly optimized
  • Processor and hard drive loads generated by monitoring agents were signifantly decreased
  • IP to host name coversion process has been optimized
  • UrlDb has been upgraded. Lots of new sites were added

New in SurfCop for Microsoft ISA Server/Forefront TMG 1.2 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • Added
  • Data Center: Possibility to see the progress of reports generation process
  • Agent: Bandwidth manager has been added. Now is possible to control bandwidth usage via very flexible bandwidth shaping rules (Bandwidth monitor interface)
  • Changed/Improved
  • Console, Data Center: Added Windows 7 support
  • Data Center: UrlDb has been splitted out on two independent databases: Master and User-Defined. All modifications submitted by administrator now are stored in the User-Defied database that has higher priority than Master database
  • Data Center: UrlDb has been upgraded. Added several new categories and lots of new sites
  • Fixed
  • Console: Incorrect operation on multi-monitor systems
  • Data Center: Several issues when the SQLite was used as database engine
  • Data Center: Issue with incorrect processing URLs of some specific format

New in SurfCop for Microsoft ISA Server/Forefront TMG 1.1 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • Added
  • Data Center: Possibility to use Oracle as data storage has been added
  • Agent: Possibility to view personal users' statistics through the web interface has been added
  • Changed/Improved
  • Agent: Trial version limitations were changed
  • Console: Appearance of charts has been changed
  • Console: Activity monitors refresh rate has been increased
  • Data Center: Aliases have been splited into two categories - Predefined aliases and User-Defined aliases. Predefined aliases cannot be modified or removed. They can only be enabled or disabled. All new aliases are automatically added to the User-Defined group.
  • Fixed
  • Agent: Issue with incorrect counting of licensed objects has been fixed
  • Agent: Several bugs that caused falling of ISA Server Firewall Service were fixed
  • Agent: Issue with incorrect extraction of the "Title" tag value when visiting some websites has been fixed
  • Data Center: Issue with incorrect calculation of disk space occupied by MS SQL Server database has been fixed
  • Data Center: SQL syntax error occurred when processing some specific URLs has been fixed
  • Console: Issue occurred during report generation process has been fixed