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Oct 02, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.40.0!
Major update:

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.

Sep 14, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.38.5!
Major update:

Added: Option to enable or disable sorting of computers during generation of reports.

Added: Output of current data folder name in the status bar.

Added: Customize button for tabular report.

Added: New category for custom information and custom fields.

Added: Full and brief printable reports for custom information and custom fields.

Added: Custom fields can be included to tabular report.

Added: Some new fields for tabular report.

Added: Customize button for tabular report.

Added: Software and licenses accounting mode.

Added: Tabular reports for software installations count and licenses accounting.

Added: "Find next" feature in computers tree by F3 key.

Added: Helpful messages when building a tabular report leads to an empty report.

Fixed: Error in hotfix detection algorithm used in output of Installed Software, leading to an exception.

Fixed: Integer overflow errors on some processor types (refixed).

Fixed: Change of language while being in reporting mode did not caused update of information in general view.

Fixed: Option "Use identificators instead of descriptions" in tabular report was ignored during selection and deselection of fields.

Fixed: Toolbar button "Save" saved usual reports instead of tabular report when in tabular report mode; other buttons which are only for printable reports now disabled.

Fixed: Excess call of the same procedure of data output during program startup.

Fixed: New created groups disappeared after program restart.

Fixed: First letters of each line were cut off when copying information from main window.

Fixed: Error in video system details when monitor reports zero physical image size.

Fixed: Incorrect total memory size (due to wrong detected memory modules sizes) is now taken from memory visible to OS.

Fixed: Real monitor name was not shown at general information view and reports, if not present in driver info, though determined in EDID info.

Fixed: "Back" button was not disabled in "Scan single PC" dialog.

Fixed: Sometimes the executable name was omitted in "Windows logon script editing" dialog.

Improved: Selection of modes in report builder remade and improved, new modes - special reports and tabular reports.

Aug 08, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.38.4!
Minor update:

Added: Customizable tabular report (aka grid report, spreadsheet report).

Added: MS Office product keys gathering (displayed under OS information).

Added: Operating systems added to software installations count report.

Added: Select categories for scanning through Scan Wizard and "Scan single PC".

Fixed: Minor mistakes in localization.

Fixed: Minor interface drawing bugs.

Fixed: Inventory bugs (own computer not always scanned; wrong naming of data files, DNS issues).

Fixed: Wrong options page opened by "Set path" button in logon script setup wizard.

Jun 26, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.38.3!
Minor update:

Fixed: Progress window hanged sometimes during generation of report data.

Fixed: Sometimes misnaming of data files caused "XML file does not exist" errors after scan.

Jun 15, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.38.2!
Major update:

Added: German interface, reports and user manual.

Added: Traffic and time saving options (keeping of executables for later usage and compression of data traffic).

Added: Quick data folder change (for unlimited licenses).

Added: Compression of data files for space saving (for unlimited licenses).

Fixed: Integer overflow errors on some processor types.

Fixed: Not created custom folders in the network tree.

Improved: Connection options moved to separate page and remade to be more obvious.

Apr 26, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.38.1!
Major update:

Added: In data output - computer system model and manufacturer; chassis serial number; motherboard serial number and version; SMBIOS version.

Added: "Save to CSV file" and "Save to TXT file" options in main information view area context menu.

Added: Context menu for scan process results list, which allows to copy results to clipboard, or save them to CSV or TXT file.

Added: Detailed status messages during scan process, showing what is scanned now exactly (can enabled and disabled in Options, only for direct WMI scan).

Fixed: List index out of bounds error at General information and Processor page on some configurations.

Fixed: Zero L2 cache size in processor information while L2 cache details showed non-zero size.

Fixed: Logical disks parameters captions showed "Size" for size and free space.

Fixed: Scan wizard - navigation issues; default radiobutton position on the first page; strange controls behaviour at Scan other PC page.

Fixed: Error in Report Builder when a report includes computer which name ends with digits forming a number exceeding 2^31-1.

Fixed: Wrong calculation of password age in User accounts category.

Fixed: Copy of text with national characters to clipboard caused character sets mismatch (if not switch to according keyboard layout beforehand).

Improved: Help buttons in the program are now context-sensitive (user manual is open at corresponding page).

Improved: RPC server unavailable error messages are shown only once.

Improved: Category "Motherboard details" renamed to "Computer and motherboard".

Improved: Chassis name removed (always the same meaningless "System enclosure").

Improved: Two points in Tools menu "Load data files from..." renamed to "Refresh data storage folder" and "Refresh audit tool folder".

Improved: New version availability check now shows main changes in new version (can enabled and disabled in Options).

Improved: Main information area context menu copy functions improved and supplemented with new points.

Apr 09, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.38!
Major update:

Added: Multilanguage support for interface and reports.

Added: Russian translation for interface and reports.

Added: Software installations count report.

Mar 29, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.37.3!
Minor update:

Fixed: Corrupted XML files caused report builder to hang and information viewer to stop refreshing until program restart.

Fixed: Erroneous information in XML files caused report builder to hang and information viewer to stop refreshing until program restart.

Improved: Viewing of corrupted and erroneous information XML files shows a corresponding message, adds a log record and allows to continue work without restart.

Improved: Building a report with corrupted XML files skips them, adds a log record and finishes correctly, showing a message which allows to rescan them immediately.

Improved: Building a report with erroneous information XML files adds a log record and finishes correctly, showing a message with list of PCs and erroneous categories.

Feb 23, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.37!
Major update:

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".
Jan 30, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.36.2!
Featuring added options and improved information representation:

Added: The program informs the user and automatically restarts itself if data files storage path is changed in options.

Added: If the total number of addresses in IP ranges is over 5000, the program adds only first 5000 of them into scanning queue.

Added: Filter options for showing physical or virtual network adapters, with or without assigned IP addresses.

Added: Option for determination of default IP address in case if there are several of them, for local PC scan and standalone audit tool.

Added: Scheduler for automatic periodic check for new version availability.

Added: Introduced incremented build number to program version to provide proper check for new version if release number is not incremented (in fast updates).

Fixed: Exception in user accounts category because of invalid time format reported by WMI.

Added: Evaluation version doesn't allow to open, save or print reports.

Fixed: Overlapping IP address ranges caused the same addresses to appear more than once.

Fixed: Minor bug fixes.

Fixed: Scan Wizard didn't set "As current user" option while it was enabled in options.

Fixed: Network tree refresh caused focus loss so that first node in the tree has become selected.

Fixed: Minor bug fixes.

Fixed: Ampersand usage in Organization name caused program crash.

Fixed: Minor bug fixes.

Fixed: Empty reported operating system codeset number caused program crash.

Fixed: Minor bug fixes.

Improved: More informative status messages during scan process.

Improved: More informative scanning summary line.

Improved: Names and IPs resolving algorithm changed - each of these computer discovery methods now has its own separate options for pinging and resolving, and optimal defaults are set.

Improved: Program Files folders are now sorted alphabetically.

Improved: Network adapters detection and classification algorithm.

Improved: Default IP address determination algorithm.

Improved: Network tree context menu uses more obvious item names concerning PC rescan.
Jan 18, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.36!
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.
Jan 10, 2007

Total Network Inventory goes 1.5.35!
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:
  • motherboard system slots number for each slot type added;
  • system memory slots configuration added;
  • lists of items (hard disks, printers etc.) are split into separate strings;
  • hard disks size added.
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