Total Network Inventory news and upgrades

Total Network Inventory goes 1.6.7!

Softinventive Lab — 5 Dec 2008 12:32:50 GMT

Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: New custom report fields 'Number of video adapters' and 'Number of monitors' in 'General information' section. Helpful to get overview of multimonitor systems, see which systems are capable to use second monitor but use only one, etc.
Added: New custom report fields 'Group' and 'Path' for output of the computer location in the virtual network tree. If you have created a tree structure that represents geographical location or departments, include these fields to the report to see where each computer is located.
Added: New tabular detailed reports - network adapters, printers and four reports on computer storage system. Information that was not available in tabular view earlier.
Added: Many handy keyboard shortcuts which are specified on the corresponding menu points. Save time on everyday actions.
Improved: Running program is activated from tray or taskbar when it is started second time. In case you have minimized it to tray and forgotten.
Improved: The measurement units are moved to the column headers in tabular detailed reports (allows proper sorting). Now, for example, hard disk drives can be sorted by capacity, ascending or descending, from under 10 GB to over 1 TB correctly, which was not possible when data was sorted as text.
Improved: Categories panel redrawing performance. The slowest part of the interface (when resizing or moving the window) was rewritten from scratch.
Fixed: Other minor fixes and improvements.

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Total Network Inventory goes 1.6.6!

Softinventive Lab — 31 Oct 2008 14:32:50 GMT

Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: Alerts for disabled antiviruses, outdated service packs, low disk space etc.
Added: Possibility to create more than one custom tabular report template.
Added: Detailed tabular report for installed software.
Added: Search of computers in reports with right-click on computer in the network tree.
Added: Quick links for jumping to categories, search information in Google, set some options.
Added: Selection of lines with double-click in the information output area.
Improved: Browser-like search in the network tree with multi-highlighting.
Improved: Look and feel of categories panel.
Improved: Look and feel of the information output area.
Improved: Correct sorting of numeric columns for standard tabular reports.
Improved: Software and licenses tabular report now includes only selected computers.
Fixed: Other minor fixes and improvements.

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Total Network Inventory goes 1.6.5!

Softinventive Lab — 22 Aug 2008 14:32:50 GMT

Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: Printable reports in two formats - A4 and Letter.
Added: A number of new export options for printable reports.
Added: An option to scan only new computers in Scan Wizard.
Added: Multiple monitors and video adapters are inventoried.
Improved: Scan stability (when scanned computer is shut down, scan does not hang indefinitely).
Improved: Setting node type manually (notebook or workstation, switch or router, etc.)
Improved: Antivirus software category remade into Security and now shows automatic updates status, antivirus, firewall and antispyware information.
Improved: Multimonitor-aware interface, remembering window position.
Improved: Optimized file saving in both agent and main program (especially when saving to a network folder).
Improved: Full WYSIWYG for printable reports (exported reports and print-outs look as close to the preview as possible).
Improved: Network tree heavily upgraded - multiselection, drag-n-drop, updated context menu and a dozen of other usability improvements.
Improved: Status bar shows selected and total number of computers, devices and groups in a new manner.

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Total Network Inventory goes 1.6.0!

Softinventive Lab — 20 Feb 2008 14:32:50 GMT

Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: Inventory of SNMP-enabled network devices (routers, printers, managed switches, etc).
Added: Italian language for interface and user manual.
Added: Different icons for different types of nodes in the tree (workstations, servers, laptops, network devices).
Added: Checking of online/offline status of all nodes.
Added: Microsoft Office service pack is determined in the list of installed software.
Added: Microsoft Office serial No. and product key is shown in the list of installed software, besides "OS information".
Added: Tabular reports are now searchable (Binoculars button, Ctrl+F, F3).
Added: List of computers which does not have particular software installed, in "Software and licenses" tabular report.
Added: Setting for separation character (for saving of tabular reports to CSV files).
Added: Setting for locking of toolbars.
Added: Output of BIOS serial number (and a corresponding field for custom tabular report).
Added: Output of network connection speed in netwok adapter information (implemented in WMI only for Vista and Server 2008).
Fixed: Reading of Windows product key and Office 2007 product key in Vista 64 bit.
Fixed: Error when processing corrupted XML data files.
Fixed: Missed one item of installed software and Program Files folder in brief reports.
Improved: Adding of compressed data files.
Improved: Reading of "Program Files" folder path.
Improved: New version check moved to separate thread.

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Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.40!

Softinventive Lab — 3 Oct 2007 14:32:50 GMT

Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: Possibility to know computers which have particular software installed.
Improved: French, German, Spanish localizations.
Fixed: Table scrolling, checkboxes display and rows highlighting in software accounting table under Windows Vista.
Fixed: Wrong display of some interface parts right after program's launch under Windows Vista.
Fixed: Size and positions of welcome screen buttons with different languages.

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Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.38!

Softinventive Lab — 9 Apr 2007 14:32:50 GMT

Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: Multilanguage support for interface and reports.
Added: Russian translation for interface and reports.
Added: Software installations count report.

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Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.37!

Softinventive Lab — 27 Feb 2007 11:02:31 GMT

Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: Custom information fields, defined in Options (common custom fields) and for each PC separately.
Added: Extended display identification data (EDID) retrieval and decoding.
Added: Full reporting for more than one information category and additional main menu items for quick access to different reports.
Added: Last used reporting mode is saved and restored.
Added: Keyboard shortcuts for various update-like operations, see manual for details.
Added: Multi-category view mode, which allows to output information from any combination of categories.
Added: Client version and computer info last updated time on general information page.
Added: Options to view usual installed software, Windows hotfixes and Windows system components in Installed software category.
Added: Detection of multicored and hyperthreaded processors under Windows Vista and Longhorn Server (native support).
Added: Detection of multicored and hyperthreaded processors under other Windows versions (workaround).
Added: Domain role is shown near workgroup/domain name in General information.
Added: Network tree management - if Ctrl key is help down while clicking "Remove ..." menu item, data files will be kept on disk.
Added: Filter option to hide user accounts that were not logged on from selected computer.
Added: Separate watching thread which terminates hanged scanning threads in 3 minutes after pressing of "Stop" button.
Added: Option to save administrator username and password directly from Scan Wizard.
Added: Main menu items for quick access to reports under "Reports -> Single category reports".
Fixed: During file sharing scan, if a service was not removed earlier for some reason, it is now reused and doesn't cause an error.
Improved: Both reporting modes now may include any chosen combination of categories.
Improved: Reporting modes renamed: Single categories mode - to Full reporting mode, Multiple categories mode - to Brief reporting mode.
Improved: Algorithm of Installed Software retrieval, duplicates deletion and sorting.
Improved: CPU multiplier calculation and FSB clock handling.
Improved: Processor cache memory data handling.
Improved: Several identical processors are now shown in General information as "Count x Name (Frequency)".
Improved: Handling of domain names - now "domain" is always treated as "domain.local".

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Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.36!

Softinventive Lab — 18 Jan 2007 11:49:47 GMT

Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: New firewall-friedly remote computer connection method, requiring only administrator access to IPC$ and ADMIN$.
Added: Check for new version item in main menu "Help" section.
Fixed: Two options flags mixed up and overwritten each other.
Fixed: "Update data files from network folder" algorithm.
Fixed: Improper memory slots usage information in system memory category.
Fixed: Exception in video system category because of unreported screen resolution by WMI under Windows Vista.
Fixed: Exception in user accounts category because of invalid time format reported by WMI.
Fixed: Improper characted set in some fields of report forms.
Fixed: Multiple "Printers" string in General information category if there is there is no default printer.
Fixed: Minor bug fixes.
Improved: Computer names and IP addresses resolving algorithm.
Improved: In Scan Wizard, IP range list now saved and loaded automatically, no need to redefine ranges each time now.

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Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.35!

Softinventive Lab — 10 Jan 2007 10:47:00 GMT

Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: Computers and groups rescan options in the network tree context menu.
Added: Toolbar buttons with both action button and drop-down menus now have their default action duplicated in their menu.
Added: A menu item "Rescan computers" under "File" menu, duplicating toolbar commands and introducing shortcut keyboard commands for quick launch of the rescan process.
Added: If an error "RPC server is unavailable" happens during scan process or test logon, a message describing possible reasons and where to look for details is shown.
Added: Computer cost and payment date custom information options in the "Edit computer information" window.
Added: Tray icon hint.
Added: Obtain and show video adapter BIOS date and version in Video system category.
Improved: System memory information now shows not memory modules, but memory slots, both used and unused, providing memory modules information for used slots.
Improved: Total, used and free disk space calculation in the Storage details category, including floating format depending on the value (GB/MB).
Improved: Default printer is now always first in the list, both in Peripheral devices and General information.
Improved: If a group was selected in the network tree and "Rescan computer" toolbar button is pressed, nothing happened; now the whole group is rescanned.
Improved: General information category enhanced:

Total Network Inventory news and upgrades

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Total Network Inventory 1.5 released!