What's new in Total Software Deployment 3.2.0 build 965
Aug 1, 2022
- Improved:
- The main libraries and the scanning agent were updated and fixed.
- Easier and faster installation
New in Total Software Deployment 3.0.0 build 900 (Jul 23, 2018)
- New deployment setting in the Software passport: installation context. It allows to specify under which user will the software installer be run.
- New deployment setting in the Software passport: deployment verification file. It allows to check if this file was created (or updated) on the remote computer as a result of the deployment.
- Uninstall support for software installed using the following installers: InnoSetup, NSIS, Smart Install Maker, Excelsior Installer, Ghost Installer, Install Aware, WinRar Installer.
- Support for uninstalling all versions of MS Office.
- Support for REG files in the software storage.
- Ability to add multiple programs at once to the software storage.
- Hint panels in the software and network trees for getting started with the storages.
- Software tree and network tree can now be hidden. The storage loading progress is now also available in the status bar.
- Macro deployment engine.
- Macro deployment of MSI packages now works on computers where interactive services are disallowed.
- Bitness of the interpreters that are used to execute scripts now matches the target system bitness.
- Software passport revamped.
- Software with unspecified bitness and installation context is now marked with the /! icon in the software tree and the software deployment list.
- Adding of single-file installers made easier. Now it’s enough to just select the installer(s) in the file open dialog.
- The size of the deployment and uninstallation logs can now be changed.
- Double click on the program in the software tree now adds it to the software deployment list.
- Double click on the computer in the network tree now adds it to the deployment targets list or to the scanner’s task list (depending on the selected TSD mode).
- Deployment of software that requires the environment variables of the user.
- Interaction with the software component selection list during the Macro deployment.
- Freezing that occured with some installers at the very beginning of installation when deploying using the Macro method.
- Working with some MSP files.
- Many other fixes and improvements.
New in Total Software Deployment 2.2.0 build 867 (Apr 19, 2018)
- New:
- Ability to uninstall any software that stores a silent uninstall string in the registry. This string is collected when the assets are scanned using the updated scan agent.
- Software installer can be updated from its passport.
- Context menu in the list of installed software (includes a new ability to rescan assets directly from the list).
- Improved:
- Test run algorithm and recording algorithms for Macro and System shot methods.
- Test run’s result is now saved for the entire duration of a TSD session.
- Software passport’s Language field was replaced with a more useful Note.
- New system of notification about trial version and license limitations.
- Advanced search queries can now be used in the Software passport’s search string and in System shot results.
- In the list of installed software, a new recommendation will be shown (to rescan a device if it was scanned using an old version of the agent).
- If the connection is lost during deployment or uninstallation, a correct warning will be shown instead of an unexpected error.
- If the Windows installer is already busy on the remote computer, deployment and uninstallation will wait for it to finish for 10 minutes.
- Configuration of waiting for the installer’s child processes. A separate configuration will now be saved for each method.
- Advanced mode of the MS Office configuration file editor (it’s now possible to specify any Product ID).
- Algorithm that obtains information and icons from the installer file is now able to work with very large files.
- Fixed:
- Error when copying the deployment log file.
- Restoration of the software storage from backup if it becomes corrupted.
- Error when loading the network storage.
- Errors that may occur when working with the Macro editor.
- Error when importing the MS Office configuration file (in the Silent method).
New in Total Software Deployment 2.1.2 build 849 (Mar 14, 2018)
- Added:
- Indicator showing the number of unsupported devices in the status bar (for using with a TI network storage)
- Improved:
- Handling of unsupported devices (when using a TNI network storage)
- Informativity of the welcome screen
- Determining if it's necessary to terminate MSI processes when deployment or uninstallation issues occur.
- Fixed:
- Errors that may occur when creating scan tasks for devices that are not supported by TDS (when using a TNI network storage)
- Deployment and uninstallation of MSI packages from computers where the security level of software restriction policies is set to Unrestricted
- Error causing the program's license key to expire
- Possible unexpected termination of the remote TSD service when deploying using the Macro method
New in Total Software Deployment 2.1.1 build 841 (Feb 8, 2018)
- Added:
- Software installer add-ons can now be updated in Software passprt
- Option to automatically rescan computers where uninstallation of at least one software package was completed successfully (or with a warning).
- Improved:
- Monitoring of the online status of assets, Ping command in the network tree
- Responsiveness when assistants in the Network tree are enabled
- Software installers can now also be updated via the context menu in the Software tree
- When you update a software installer, the information in its passport is automatically updated (but only if it hasn't been manually edited before).
- Fixed:
- When adding groups of assets to the deployment targets list, active filters in the Network tree are now taken into account
- Viewing screenshots in the deployment log and software deployment history on Windows 10 systems (when default system settings are used for opening BMP files)
New in Total Software Deployment 2.0.2 build 802 (Aug 28, 2017)
- Added:
- Localization and documentation update
- Major documentation update
- Major localization update
- Links from the Uninstallation deskop to relevant documentation sections
- Links from few new messages in the Deployment log and in the Uninstallation log to relevant frequently asked questions in the documentation
- Improved:
- Stability when simultaneously handling deployment, uninstallation and scanning processes if a high thread number is set for these operations
- Fixed:
- Errors that occur when handling unexpected deployment errors
- Entries about deployment errors absent from History when deploying MSI packages
- Errors that can occur on the remote computer when the uninstallation is halted
- Some other fixes and improvements
New in Total Software Deployment 2.0.1 build 796 (Aug 1, 2017)
- Added:
- Uninstallation of MSI packages on Windows XP
- The software passport now shows whether the installer is multi-file
- Total installer runtime in the Silent installation status panel and a message in the notification area when a Test run is finished
- Improved:
- Handling of unexpected uninstallation errors
- Errors that occur when performing API functions will be displayed in the language selected in the program, but only if the matching language pack is installed. Otherwise, the current or the default system UI language is used
- Uninstallation tasks can now be added using double-click in the list of installed software
- Computer name display format in the list of installed software and the uninstallation task list was brought to a common standard with other program elements
- Changes to group settings in asset properties applied faster
- Fixed:
- Software deployment ti Windows XP and Server 2003 systems
- MSI uninstallation on Windows Server 2003
- Names of various cotntrols and their hints were corrected or revised
New in Total Software Deployment 2.0.0 build 791 (Jul 6, 2017)
- Added:
- Uninstallation of MSI packages using the list of installed software
- The list of installed software. The filter of supported software helps to create a list of uninstallation tasks
- New technology for deploying MSI packages using the Silent method
- Search in the List of installed software. Allows to find any software on computers in the network storage.
- Group of uninstallation settings.
- Group of deployment settings
- wqhen the deployment is complete, you can now filter the results according to whether the deployment was successful, and then save the filtered deployment targets to a new list
- Option to automatically save computers with deployment errors to a new list of deployment targets
- Option to automatically rescan computers if the deployment was successfull
- Single selection in the network tree. Implemented for more convenient work with computer properties, logins and the list of installed software
- The local computer, computers with a static IP and virtual machines now have appropriate icons in the network tree
- Computers with scanning errors or important information for the user now have appropriate icons in the network tree. When you hover over such icons, you can read the error message or important framework
- Buttons allowing to collapse/expand all subgroups of the current group in the network storage
- New options for displaying information in the network tree:domain/workgroup, full domain names, descriptions, location
- Filtering of search results, and buttons for navigating to the search results for both storages
- Improved:
- When manually handling deployment, it will also be interrupted on the stages of pinging and port scanning
- Parameters for recording the Silent method for the MSI installer type were changed. The default command line was changed, and an information panel with recommendations was added
- For the Click-to-Run installer type, the list of MS Office 2013 and 2016 license types was expanded
- Both storages can now be searched using logical AND and OR operations ('+' and ',' respectively)
- Search result display logic for both storages
- Multiple selections in the network tree. It can now be used when working with computer properties, logins and the list of installed software
- If the network storage is taking too long to close, the network tree will enter 'closing' mode. It eliminates any possible errors that could occur when working with computers during the closing process
- Fixed:
- Errors when halting deployment
- Errors when copying deployment log files
- Deployment failure when the 'Use network discovery' settings is off
- Deployment hanging at 100% under certain conditions
- Errors when adding computers with certain properties to the Deployment targets list
- Errors when saving the software deployment list and the deployment targets list if certain characters are in the list's name
- Error when loading the software storage
- Errors in synchronization of search results with filters of network tree assistants
- Online filter in the network tree will now correctly hide/show computers when their online status is changed
- The network tree context menu will now be built correctly in accordance with the selected objects
- Many other fixes and improvements
New in Total Software Deployment 1.4.1 build 757 (Dec 28, 2016)
- New network tree assistants
New in Total Software Deployment 1.4.0 build 749 (Nov 22, 2016)
- Customizable synchronization with AD and the new Properties page for each object in the Network storage
- Added:
- Synchronization of specific groups in the storage with specific OUs in Active Directory
- Ability to specify a domain controller for AD synchronization
- Icon of each group becomes animated when it's being synchronized
- "Don't move", a new asset property that allow to keep assets in groups that don't correspond to their OUs.
- Options to skip empty OUs and disabled PCs during AD synchronization
- Properties page for each object in the Network storage
- Login management, Network storage properties along with the Properties page for network storage objects were moved to the new Edit mode
- Options to automatically save changes in Edit mode when leaving any of its sub-modes
- Improved:
- Dialog asking how to treat assets and users that were not found in AD during synchronization
- Processing of long computer names from AD
- Information panels for Adobe and 7-Zip SFX installers
- Fixed:
- Error during macro recording when running the installer from a storage located on a shared resource in another domain or workgroup
- Incorrect detection of Windows Server 2015 as Windows 10
- Error that occurs when removing a computer from the network storage (via File Explorer or automatically during synchronization with AD) if TSD is performing deployment operations on said computer
- Some other fixes and improvements
New in Total Software Deployment 1.3.0 (Oct 13, 2016)
- Supports for PowerShell scripts
- Improvements to network storage assistants
New in Total Software Deployment 1.2.1 (Aug 25, 2016)
- New:
- Six new languages.
- Major documentation update.
- Links from installer type descriptions for MS Office CtR, Batch File and Java Installer to relevant documentation sections.
- Links from error messages in the Deployment log to recommendations for their solution.
- Improved:
- Selecting nodes in the Software and Network trees.
- OS name is now represented as an icon in the Deployment targets list.
- Storage name instead of its folder name in the Network storage menu.
- The Deployment assistant no longer performs searches in installation dates in order to avoid displaying inaccurate search results when program version number partially matches the date.
- Fixed:
- Error when creating the command file, which consequently made it impossible to load it.
- Freezing when deploying to a computer where the user is not logged in.
- Unaltered timeout values in Silent packages will now be updated after the default timeout setting is changed in Options.
- Rendering errors when editing search strings in the Deployment assistant.
- Macro deployment of MSI installers will now be blocked when interactive services are disabled on the target computer. The MSI interface cannot be rendered in such an environment, and the installer is closed with an error.
- Some errors that may impede re-deployment to a computer after deployment failure.
- Scroll errors on several controls.
- Many other fixes and improvements.
New in Total Software Deployment 1.2.0 (Jun 17, 2016)
- New Assistant for searching for software and computers to use in deployment.
- Improved user interface.
- Progress indicator when loading a storage.
- Network storage will load faster in certain scenarios.
- Simplified desktop log: now completely separate and independent from the deployment log.
- Significantly improved load times for deployment lists.
- Error detecting Windows 8.1, 10 and Server 2012 R2 in Software editor’s information panel for Macro and Sysshot.
- Visual artifacts on Windows Server.
- Errors in deployment log messages when adding computers to the Deployment targets list.
- Inactive window scrolling in Windows 10.
New in Total Software Deployment 1.1.2 (Mar 29, 2016)
- The information panel for errors and warnings for the Silent method.
- New interface in Options.
- The Silent method is saved faster.
- Some installer types are now supplemented with an information panel that explains how to create a Silent method for them.
- Error of a one-time check for the online status of assets when the "Check the online status of assets periodically-option is disabled. Error when frying to minimize the program window after recording a Macro or a Sysshot. Rare cases when the caret is displayed during Macro playback and interferes with the window search mechanism.
- Error during loading of the software deployment list when the last application on the list was removed from the Software storage.
- Timeout values when deploying using the Silent and Macro methods now exactly match the ones specified by user.
- The possibility of ticking the 'Process actions in this step` checkbox for a macro step, in which no actions have been recorded. This led to the macro being corrupted when loaded again. Corruption of a Silent method when its opened while searching using the Software update helper.
- An erroneous warning, during the preparation for deployment, about the possible incompatibility of the Macro played back on Windows 10 with other OSes.
- Automatic replacement of information about the system where the method was recorded when editing a Macro or a Sysshot.
- Many other fixes and improvements.