Changelog
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2025-08-21 - 14.0.1633.25233
New
- Audit Functionality: New feature for recording and tracking manual changes to meta objects - can be activated via options with detailed change history including user and timestamp.
- UEFI 2026 Readiness: New “Platform Security” section for Windows and Linux with information on TPM version, UEFI readiness, Secure Boot and BIOS Setup Mode - including new report and Connect package.
- Windows Inventory: Trusted certificates can now optionally be inventoried in addition to private certificates.
Improved / Updated
- Linux Inventory: The script-based inventory process has been modernized - now requires Python 3 and OpenSSL on target systems, uses asymmetric RSA-4096 encryption via CMS and automatically generates .dsi files.
- Physical Infrastructure: Sorting of cable and connector connections can now be reset to the initial state via context menu.
- SNMPv3 Wizard: Simplified user interface - unnecessary fields (Engine ID, Localized Auth/Priv Key) have been removed.
- Windows System Report: Optimization and significant streamlining of report contents for better clarity.
- Customizing - Schema Import: The meta schema import wizard has been revised - conflicts are clearly displayed and can be resolved specifically, new ObjectType IDs are assigned automatically.
- Customizing - Input Forms: New options for data and selection grids (HideFilter, HideGrouping, HideRowCount, ReadOnly) for more flexible design.
Fixed
Application
- Other Assets - Locations: Missing data display in the data area after selecting an asset class has been fixed.
- Docusnap Web: The Intune section is now displayed correctly in the web client.
- Warranty Queries: Warranty queries now correctly consider the configured proxy settings on the Docusnap Server.
- Discovery Service: Errors when subsequently adjusting folder permissions in the script storage path have been fixed.
- Locations - Systems: Errors in displaying systems in the data area have been fixed.
- System Assignment: Assignment criteria can now only be assigned to a single location - multiple assignments are prevented by validation.
- Connect: Problems with result display (tree, columns), SQL queries, RTF export and compatibility of version 13 packages have been fixed.
- CSV Import: Errors with single line import, the update option for scheduled tasks, scrollbars, record counting and customizing target properties have been fixed.
- Customizing: The use of DECLARE, save hints in the data grid, opening the designer and various other problems have been fixed.
Documentation
- Reports: The configuration report has been updated and now contains all application settings.
- AD Comparison Report: Problems with incorrect SID assignments and timeouts during report creation have been eliminated.
- Concepts: Errors when saving concepts, integrating moved directories, image sharpness after export and adjusting Veeam tables as well as other problems have been corrected.
- VLAN Plan: The missing display of VLAN information in location-based plans has been corrected.
- Active Directory Plan: Group Managed Service Accounts (GMSA) can now be correctly shown and hidden in the AD overview plan.
- Topology Plan: The display of Aruba and Extreme switches, VLAN positioning for Extreme Networks and the VLAN search function for virtual switches have been fixed.
Inventory
- SNMP: Various known problems with interfaces, IP address indexing and vendor-specific VLAN errors (DELL, Fortinet) have been eliminated.
- SNMP: Problems capturing SNMPv3 systems in IP ranges have been eliminated.
- SNMP: Data from additionally defined MIBs is now fully included in the inventory result.
- Azure: JSON formatting errors and incomplete results have been fixed - performance has been significantly increased.
- File Import: Imported data is processed without IP segment validation.
- Linux: Interfaces with multi-IP configuration are now correctly inventoried.
- Microsoft 365: Data transfer after successful inventory has been corrected - with significantly improved performance.
- Microsoft 365: For manual Exchange Online app registrations, the missing certificate configuration has been added to the wizard.
- Microsoft 365: The memory management in Exchange Online inventory with Public Folders and permissions has been improved
- Microsoft 365: “Send As” and “Send on Behalf” are retrieved using a properly authorized EntraID application
- Veeam: Potential display problems with backup sessions in the data area have been corrected.
- Windows: The detection and classification of USB devices (especially docking stations) has been improved.
- Windows: Physical Hyper-V hosts are now correctly recognized as physical systems.
IT Security
- Permission Analysis: The incorrect assignment of the “Everyone” group to “Authenticated Users” has been corrected - both groups are now correctly distinguished.
License Management
- License Management: Problems deleting and editing search terms for product recognition have been eliminated.
Physics
- Physical Infrastructure: The unwanted removal of elements when deleting the name, system assignment with activated filters and connector sorting now work correctly.
2025-04-29 - 14.0.1091.25119
New
- Linux: The warranty query now also covers Linux systems and VMware ESXi servers
Improved / Updated
- SNMP: Port-alias information (OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18.x) for Cisco and HPE Aruba switches is now displayed
- Physical Infrastructure: Added column filters in the physical-infrastructure editor
- Microsoft 365 & Azure: Enterprise apps now show API details, type and permission description
- Microsoft 365: Implemented linking between Intune devices and EntraID devices
- IT Security: Extended and improved display of authorised DFS shares
- Customising – Tables: Naming conventions optimised by restricting table and field names to those without hyphens
- Npcap is now installed in version 1.82 (2025.03.15)
- Support Center: Modernised design, resource-saving lazy loading for faster creation of support files, unified and intuitive data lists with filter/export, plus extended debug options with “Docsnap Server” settings
Fixed
Inventory
- Windows Inventory: Method for determining SQL Server Edition via registry entries revised and corrected
- Windows Inventory: Language-independent workstation filtering added to scheduled inventory jobs
- Microsoft 365: “Directory is not empty” error during M365 inventory fixed
- Microsoft 365: Duplicate display of Teams channels corrected
- DFS Inventory: Possible incomplete results due to TrashBin handling resolved
Documentation
- SNMP System Report: Improved memory efficiency in report generation
- Comparison Report: Comparison reports now display correctly after generation
- Concepts: Assigned concepts now appear on meta-objects without subordinate nodes
Application
- Snapshots – Deleting the Discovery Service: Missing snapshot information after deleting the Discovery Service is now shown correctly
- Create DB: Database creation permissions optimised; assigning the
db_creator
role is now sufficient - NTFS Analysis: Previously selected DFS shares now reappear in job editing
2025-03-13 - 14.0.303.24347
New
- The benefits report “Docusnap Overview/Data Quality” has been integrated into the application and is available under Company - Infrastructure - Docusnap
Improved / Updated
- The demo tenant “Docusnap Sports AG” is now available in version “Docusnap 14.” Previous demo tenants will not be updated
- HPE Storage: The inventory process has been expanded to include all relevant storage controller details at the port level
- IP system assignment can now be done via DNS name or IPv4 address if the MAC address was not captured during the scan
- Npcap is now installed in version 1.81 (20.02.2025)
- Entra ID Users: In addition to ‘Microsoft 365’ data, ‘Microsoft Intune’ data is now also stored in the user’s Entra ID account
- Reports – Scheduled Tasks: The report is now better suited for multiple clients thanks to the new “Company” and “Domain” columns
- Reports - Infrastructure - Infrastructure Overview / Inventories: Up-to-dateness has been expanded to include Nutanix and Storage (HPE)
- Summary – Topology: This data view has been expanded to include the columns “Tagged & Untagged VLAN” as well as the port description from IF-MIB, if available
- For Nutanix Cluster, DFS, Veeam B&R, and HPE Storage technologies, an editor is now available for creating descriptions in RTF format
- Connect: Support for warranty queries has been added* Autonomous discovery modules now feature an additional signature check
- Autonomous inventory modules: The new parameter -w determines where temporary data is stored – except for Windows-Discovery, which does not generate any
- Windows: The inventory of batteries in Windows systems has been revised and now provides significantly better information
Inventory
- Azure: Issues that led to incomplete inventory collection have now been resolved
- DFS: A correction in DFS inventory fixes the problem of namespaces not being properly captured (Unknown Namespaces)
- DFS: Replication members are now correctly detected and no longer appear multiple times
- SNMP: The display of toner levels for SNMP devices of type “Printer” is now complete
- SNMP: Vendor-specific issues - Errors in SNMP queries for Barracuda Firewall, MikroTik, NetApp, NEC, and Hikvision have been fixed
- SNMP: Scheduled SNMP inventories now reliably complete once all systems have been processed
- SQL: Inventory problems that caused an arithmetic overflow in tSQLBackupHistory have been resolved
- Windows: An extended signature check for Discover-Windows.exe improves security
Application
- Known issues due to the technology change in the user interface have been largely resolved
- Custom assets: The display speed of overview lists has been significantly improved
- First start after updating to version 14: A missing write permission for the configuration file no longer affects application startup
- First start after updating to version 14: A warning now informs users that older Docusnap versions may corrupt the converted configuration file
- Job overview: Execution data is now fully updated* Additional information: Deleting additional information now works correctly
- System location assignments: A manually assigned location is now correctly saved* Inventory – Systems – “Merge with…”: The system merge function now works correctly
- Inventory – DDS: After reinstalling the DDS application, logging is fully functional
- Inventory – DDS: The IP range check now ignores network adapters with APIPA addresses
- Excel export of IP system list: The generated Excel file is now correctly formatted
- Connect: Issues with package import messages, filtering, and displaying “Custom Assets” have been fixed
- Docusnap Web – Active Directory: The “Direct Group Memberships” section is now fully displayed
- Docusnap Web – Company selection with an ONC path now works as expected
IT Security
- The “Report Jobs (csv)” function now supports DFS folder targets for automated report generation
- NTFS Analysis Wizard: Previously selected options are now retained when reopening
Documentation
- Reports – Infrastructure Network: The “Switches” report is now fully available again
- Reports – Comparison Report: The report has been optimized and is now generated faster
- Concept – Header and Footer: Images are now retained after inserting variables
- Concept – PDF Export: Images embedded in the concept are now correctly displayed in the PDF export
- Concept: Fixed known issues (deleting hyperlinks, excluding workstations, preventing further editing of dynamic objects)
- Reports - System Overview, Data Sheets, and User Overview including PDF-export are now generated significantly faster
- Reports – DFS Overview: The report content has been adjusted to match the updated inventory
- Plans - Topology Plan: Display issues reported for various manufacturers’ devices have been resolved
2024-12-06 - 14.0.303.24347
Improved
- Golden System Report: The hotfix comparison is now based on inventoried KB numbers.
- SNMP Inventory: Improved stability and bug fixes for scheduled jobs and scan targets.
Fixed
- Windows Inventory: The system assignment for inventorying Docusnap DDS or server hosts has been corrected.
- SNMP Inventory: Known issues (Barracuda) have been resolved.
- Docusnap Client: Migrated scheduled SNMP jobs no longer display scan targets.
- Docusnap Client: Duplication of recursive data in specific constellations in the data grid display has been fixed.
- Docusnap Client: Improvements to avoid redundant data displays in data grids.
- Docusnap Connect: Circular reference for packages with EntraId members for M365 data has been resolved.
- Docusnap Web: Internal server error when reading data has been fixed.
03.12.2024 - 14.0.283.24338
Realized Ideas from the Ideas Portal
- Windows Inventory: Battery information is now collected and displayed.
- Network Plan: All options are now individually adjustable, and the default settings have been optimized.
- Nutanix Inventory: Support for Nutanix, including virtualization, storage containers, clusters, and physical hosts.
- Microsoft Intune: Full inventory support for Microsoft Intune, including managed apps and devices.
- SNMPv3 Discovery: Added the ability to define an address range instead of individual systems.
New
Microsoft Azure Inventory and Documentation:
Comprehensive support for subscriptions, resource groups, Azure services, and management groups. The analysis and documentation of RBAC permissions simplify management and visualization of dependencies—even across subscriptions.Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inventory and Documentation:
Support for inventorying AWS services, permissions, and organizational structures, providing an organization-wide overview of all resources.Enhanced Exchange Online Inventory:
Collection of mailbox and folder permissions, as well as documentation of public folders including permissions.HPE Storage Inventory:
Support for HPE Primera, Alletra, and 3PAR. Collection of hardware, storage cages, controllers, and both physical and logical information such as volumes, LUNs, and WWNs.Warranty Queries for Various Manufacturers:
Retrieval of warranty information for devices from HP, HPE, IBM, Dell, Cisco, Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. Processing occurs via the Docusnap365 environment without persistent data storage.Docusnap Connect Interface:
Extended interface capabilities for synchronizing desired data with Power Automate and Microsoft Dataverse.Updated System Requirements
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is now the minimum requirement. Additionally, at least 8 GB RAM and 4 CPU cores are recommended for optimal Docusnap performance.
Improved
- Docusnap Interface: New UI components improve the performance and scalability of the application.
Fixed
- Various Bug Fixes: Minor corrections and optimizations across different modules and areas to enhance the software’s stability.