DomainScan Standard 6 Changelog  (Including DomainScan Light and NetScanG v5.x)
Date Version Changes
Aug 20, 2009 6,63 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

June 22, 2009 6,62 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

Mar 16, 2009 6,61 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

Jan 14, 2009 6,60 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

Aug 16, 2008 6.53 Client:
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

June 3, 2008 6.52 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.
Improved: Service management routines
Improved: GDB performance and stability
Fixed: A bug that caused that notifications about connection problems were never cleared if the device were offline in the following scan
Fixed: An error, which could lead to problems when DomainScan was running on Windows 2000 (or NT 4)

Apr 22, 2008 6.51 Client:
New: One can now launch a default remote share from within the device overview
New: ‘Matrix view’ added to the monitor overview
New: Monitor-wizard shortcut added to the monitor page in users dialog
Changed: ‘Other/Script’ folder renamed to ‘Per-device’.
Improved: The number of pending database changes are now shown again.
Improved: Service panel in Dashboard can now be resized.
Improved: Directory panel in the Domain dialog can now be resized.
Fixed: Remote changes to the database are not committed.
Fixed: The event counter on a device may not be cleared.
Fixed: A few UI issues

Service:
New: The local device can now be forced to be found during discovery.
Updated: GDB Revision 3.7
Changed: Statistics: Users are now counted in their domain and not the domain that the device belongs to.
Improved: LDAP synchronization is now threaded.

Feb 29, 2008 6.50 Client:
Changed: Client application renamed to DomainScan
New: Domain tab in the Information section
New: Filter tab in the Information section
New: One can now copy device and user content to a webpage
New: Filters can be applied to the Device, User, Monitor and Information window
Updated: Artwork
Changed: Domain settings user interface redesigned
Changed: Device and users information interfaces updated
Changed: Settings interface updated
Improved: Time/interval filter functionality
Removed: Database tab removed from the Information section

Service:
New: Domains can now operate with a custom scanning interval (i.e. don’t monitor in each scan)
Updated: GDB Revision 3.6
Updated: Scanning engine is more robust and modular
Changed: Domain audit settings are now inherited
Fixed: A number of potential bugs

Jan 16, 2008 6.32 Client:
New: Service status window added to the Dashboard.
New: A default device list file is now shipped with DomainScan.
New: The default device list file will be opened if “Add Devices“ are pressed.
Updated: The setup wizard is now simpler to complete.
Updated: Service and information during scanning improved.
Changed: Text links in the 'Outlook bar' are now buttons.
Fixed: Memory leakage.
Fixed: Service wizard repair/reinstall now works even if the service is installed prior to reinstall.

Service:
New: The scanning engine can now disable directory sync automatically if needed (per domain)
Updated: Improved GH Software Website synchronization.
Improved: Feedback upon STOP errors.
Improved: More robust against Per-device problems (9e760) and directory sync issues (2e8**)
Fixed/updated: The engine can now recover from a failed online database movement, and will no longer fail forever while trying to move files.
Fixed: The scanning engine no longer loops forever if all discovery options are disabled.

Dec 11, 2007 6.31 Client:
New: Option added that allows DomainScan to send usage statistics to GH Software.
New: Users can now be obsolete.
Improved: Device and user information dialogs.
Improved: Error information upon mount errors.
Fixed: That monitors were showing a ‘Severity’.
Fixed: Databases can now be mounted though a share.

Service:
New: Option added that allows DomainScan to notify GH Software about engine crashes.
New: Support for Windows Home Server.
New: Devices in a device list can now be marked so that the device is not created in the database before it’s seen as online (? Prefix).
Fixed: SNMP changed so that the ping packet is not empty.
Improved: Scan progress indicator.
Improved: Eternal loop detection.

Nov 2, 2007

6.3

Client:

New: IPv6 supported in Ping and Address tracker

New: ‘Window’ menu

New: Monitor overview added to the dashboard

New: Multi-select now work on the device and user tabs in the main window.

New: Devices can be set as Obsolete

Changed: Overview page has been renamed to Dashboard

Changed: Main menu back.

Removed: Tasks panel removed

Improved: Monitor overview page is now more intuitive.

Improved: Redesign of Ping and Scanner tool UI

Improved: Visualization unit UI improved

 

Service:

New: IPv6 supported in Ping and Address tracker

Fixed: Backup and online movement now works correctly

Updated: GDB is now revision 3.5, and is not backward compatible.

 

Sep 18, 2007

6.21

Client:

Improved: Excluded devices in an IP range is now shown in gray with a yellow dot

Improved: The monitor interface has been improved

Changed: Ping tool: A 2 second delay has been introduced between each ping attempt.

Improved: User interface slightly improved with better grouping of some data sections.

Fixed: Correct display of 64 bit Vista/2008 editions.

 

Aug 20, 2007

6.2

Client:

New: Monitor overview now visible in the User dialog

New: Device and user grouping in main window.

New: Added more device types.

New: User monitors can now be seen from within the User information dialog.

Improved: All device and user icons are replaced with better ones

Improved: Preferences: About: Release notes are now formatted nicer

Improved: WMI, SNMP and Network Search user interfaces slightly improved

Improved: The 'Filter' menu is now also a submenu to the right-click menu

Fixed: Device type change now commits automatically

Fixed: Network search no longer returns the result set multiple times.

 

Service:

New:  Preliminary Windows Server 2008 support

New: Support for new device types

Fixed: Event count are ever increasing for each time a device is offline

Fixed: User events are now seen correctly.

 

July 12, 2007

6.1

Client:

New: Copy functionality added to Device and User interfaces

New: The main overview page will now show scanning progress summary

New: Backup step added to the Setup Wizard

New: Discovery panel added to ‘Settings’

Improved: Monitor interface

Improved: Tasks panel isn't as wide anymore

Improved: Settings: Service installation now shows what server it's currently managing

Improved: Domain suffix can now be set for normal workgroups also

Changed: Device and User dialogs completely reworked

Changed: The database can now be mounted even if it isn’t populated yet.

Fixed: It's now possible to connect to the registry on remote x64 editions of Windows

Fixed: DomainScan Client UI position is now correctly restored when the application is launched

Fixed: The ‘Techzone’ link in About doesn't work

 

Service:

New: It’s now possible to set devices that are to be ignored

New: Pre-processing is now multithreaded (Max 2 threads in DomainScan Light)

New: A new database is now saved immediately in order for the Client to be able to mount the database before it’s populated

Updated: GDB is now revision 3.4, and is not backward compatible.

Improved: Stability

Fixed: Engine scanning time is now logged correctly

Fixed: A problem with monitors creating events, even if they're not supposed to.

 

Mar 19, 2007

6.0

Client:

New: The application is now named DomainScan Light

New: SNMP browser

New: 5 minute introduction.

New: The main interface is now similar to DomainScan

Improved: The application is now fully integrated in the DomainScan source.

Improved: Settings (formerly Preferences) is redesigned.

Improved: Usability enhanced.

Changed: About and GH Software Online is now integrated with ‘Settings’

(+ See the changelog for DomainScan v2.3 for more details)

 

Service:

Updated: GDB revision 3.3 support.

New: Events can be written to a separate Event log

Improved: WMI performance improved (when the service is running on Windows XP or newer)

Changed: All domains will now be scanned by default.

 

Dec 11, 2006

5.25

Client:

Updated: Monitor setup wizard rearranged for simplified usage

Improved: One can now double-click on devices in main-monitor panel to launch device information

Improved: LogOnAsAService added to service installation in 'Preferences' (including an option not to use it)

Improved: Presentation of data from IP Range scan monitors

Fixed: The monitor wizard no longer shows DomainScan descriptions

Fixed: Issue with the log file not being found

 

Service:

Fixed: Scan progress > 100%

Improved: Monitor defaults has changed

 

Nov 21, 2006

5.24

Client:

Improved: Setup Wizard will now try to grant ‘Log on as a service’ rights automatically

Fixed: Port editor editing now works correctly

Updated: GH Software Online component

 

Nov 2, 2006

5.23

Client:

Improved: Send message & shutdown network tools redesigned

Improved: Database mount across networks

 

Service:

Added: Windows Vista support (preliminary)

Oct 9, 2006

5.22

Client:

Improved: Ping tool

Updated: IP address tracker

+ the usual round of fixes

 

Service:

Fixed: Devices reported on one or more networks by Windows Networks will now be handled (latest network will “win”)

Improved: Device domain shift detection

Sep 4, 2006

5.21

Client:

User monitor reintroduced – “light” edition of the monitor that can be found in DomainScan

The user information panel will now show directory account information (for Directory users)

Monitor and Data Analysis: Improved user interface.

 

Service:

Minor changes

Aug 9, 2006

5.2

Client:

Improved: Monitor GUI

Improved: Preferences GUI

Improved: Device and user information GUI

Removed: User monitor (will reappear in v5.21/5.22)

Fixed: A number of issues

 

Service:

Updated: GDB revision 3.2

Improved: Handling upon scan errors

Fixed: A few monitor-related issues

July 17, 2006

5.1

Client:

Added: Week numbers on date pickers (optional)

Improved: Visualization engine (redesigned – v3.0)

Improved: Feedback upon scanning troubles

Changed: Break-down tools renamed to 'data analysis'

Changed: Usage-graph renamed to ‘Trend graph’

Fixed: A number of issues

 

Service:

Added: Multi domain support

Added: Device list support

Updated: GDB revision 3.1

Improved: Feedback upon 'browser-service' issues

Improved: Database mount and synchronization

Improved: Commit file parsing

Fixed: A few monitor-related issues

May 15, 2006

5.01

Client:

Improved: Feedback upon network troubles, especially if the dependent Computer Browser service is blocked.

Fixed/Improved: Database synchronization

Fixed: ‘Clear Recent’ now works

Service:

Improved: Stability

Fixed: Uptime for new devices/users are no longer increased the first time a device/user is detected

April 18, 2006

5.0

[Initial release]