Version 3.5.2 (update 2) changes:
Service:
- Support for windows 7 scanning.
- Fixed a problem in active scanning where some computers couldn't be found because of time-out's to the domain controllers.
- Fixed a problem where only 1000 computers could be returned by a DC at one time (this gave problems in networks with over 20.000 AD objects)
- Changed the scanning of a non-trusted domain controller from computername to fqdn.
- Fixed and issue where some computers where placed in the wrong domain.
- Changed the way the license key works, added an additional 25 days to the end date.
- When browsing to http://127.0.0.1:9524 you can now see if premium is working and if active scanning is enabled.
- Fixed a problem when incorrect information was gathered because of a wrong dns setup.
- Some minor bug fixes and speed enhancements.
Lsclient:
- Changed from console to windows application (no more command line popups)
- Added extra parameter "/showresult" for testing purposes.
- Fixed a bug where the incorrect domain name was detected.
- Lsclient now has support for samba domains.
Lsmanage:
- Sorting is now case insensitive.
- Configurable timeouts for long script operations.
Website:
- Changed Thumbimage.dll for faster thumbnail generation of user pictures.
- The website now shows clearly when your license key expires.
- After the license end-date you will have 25 additional days to renew your license while the service still keeps on working.
Premium tools:
- New tool: Remote uninstall (allows you to remotely uninstall msi packages from computers)
- Updated: Report builder now has an msaccess like interface
- Updated: Remote control support for windows 7
- Updated: Remote screenshot support for windows 7
Version 3.5.1 (update 1) changes:
New features
- Firefox plugin to allow custom actions in Firefox.
- User details screen now shows all computers where this user logged on.
- Alternate credentials for Active scanning now also works for non-trusted domains. (This requires you to specify both the DNS name of the domain and the Netbios name)
Updated features/Bugs fixed
- Scanning of clients has been reworked : it first tries on DNShostname (from active directory), then on Computername, then on IP address. This will solve some RPC server unavailable problems for clients with incorrect DNS settings (Hostnames resolving to the wrong IP address)
- SQL scripting has been updated in both Lsupdate and Lsmanage to solve timeout and other problems.
- Software and user search in the webconsole now supports unicode characters.
- Software and user search now supports spaces " " in the dropdown box autofill.
- Approved software with unicode characters can now be used.
- Changing threads and listenports value now works correctly from the lsmanage tool.
- Some reports showed "KB" where it should have been "MB".
- IP Address field has been extended to support IPv6.
- __vmware_user__ is now ignored as a logged on user.
- Improved error handling when a custom actions doesn't work as expected.
- Fixed: Service dies when SQLserver is not available for longer than 30 minutes.
- Fixed: String or binary data would be truncated when Copy/pasting license key.
- Fixed: Active scanning could sometimes not locate all domain controllers in a domain.
- Fixed: Active scanning skipped computers where the DNShostname property was empty in Active directory
- Fixed: Active scanning stopped working when an empty domain name or OU was filled in.
- Fixed: Active scanning sometimes stopped when a domain controller was not responsive.
Version 3.5 changes:
Changes in both freeware and premium version:
- Lansweeper can now be installed on Windows 2008 servers and on SQL 2008.
- Most database fields have been changed to Unicode to support special characters.
- Memory information for computers is now scanned (Banks used, speed, memory type, ...)
- You can now use custom filled in information for all your computers (purchase date, warranty date, location,
order number, ....)
- You can now manually change the state of each scanned computer (Active,sold,stolen,broken,...) This can be used to archive old computers instead of deleting them, it can also be used to create custom reports based on the state of the computer.
- The service status and scanned computers can now be monitored from the web interface.
- Version information from scanned files can now be monitored from the web interface.
- Scanned registry values can now be monitored from the web interface.
- Database timeouts problems on slower servers have been solved.
- Software now scans the software's install date (if applicable)
- The computer's last know ip address has been added to the web interface and it can now be used as a parameter {ipaddress} in the custom action screen.
- White listed activeX controls can now be added using the management console.
- Support for Vendor support links which searches on model names instead of asset tags (Hewlett Packard,IBM,...)
- The service now scans by default on the FQDN of the computer instead of the IP address (which sometimes caused remote lookup failures)
- Remote registry scanning now uses WMI : this means the remote registry service is not required anymore. (it was disabled by default on vista)
- Remote file scanning now uses WMI : this means that access to administrative fileshares "C$" is not required anymore.
- WMI scanning speed has been improved (in our tests up to 4 times faster on some machines)
- The service performance has been greatly improved by caching data and less hits on the database.
- The connectiontester has been updated to scan for the needed WMI access.
- You can now exclude certain machines from being scanned.
- Bug fixed : Important memory leak in the scanning engine.
- Bug fixed : Not all installed software is scanned on some machines.
- Bug fixed : some tables could not be sorted in the web interface.
- Bug fixed : duplicate scanned items in the database.
- Bug fixed : custom action "open admin share" has an incorrect syntax.
- Bug fixed : the correct FQDN name of the host is now gathered from active directory.
- Bug fixed : if for some reason the domain could not be found, the domain "unknown" is used.
- Various other small bugs fixed.
Changes in the premium version:
- Remote screenshot grabber now works on vista and vista64.
- Remote screenshot grabber now supports multiple screens.
- Active scanning can now be configured from the GUI console instead of editing config files.
- Serial numbers for Microsoft products can now be recovered (Windows, office, exchange, sqlserver, ...)
- The freeware version only allows to scan the current domain (unlimited clients), the premium version can scan multiple domains and forests.
- Active scanning can now be configured to scan only the domains you want. (not the complete forest anymore)
- Active scanning can now be filtered to scan only certain OU's/active directory paths in a domain. (if you don't want to scan the whole domain)
- Active scanning now scans the current logged on user. (previous version needed lsclient for this)
- The report builder and report exporter now supports unicode fields.
- Scanning different domains can now use alternate scan (domain\username) credentials.
- Bug fixed : comments and company could not be scanned for active directory computers.
- Bug fixed : the service sometimes scans on a wrong fqdn name if you use subdomains.
- Bug fixed : memory leak in active scanning.
- Various bugs fixed in the report builder.
- Instead of using config files and replacing executables the premium activation now uses a license key.
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