Changelog

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2024-09-18 - 13.0.1440.24261

  • Database Creation: When selecting the “Use Local Database” option, the database is now created with SQL Server 2022 (Version 16.0.4131.2)
  • Exchange 2010: Exchange 2010 installations can now optionally be inventoried with the standalone Discovery-Exchange-Legacy.exe module
  • Authentication: Foreign Security Principals from other domains can now be used for user management, as server users, and for integrated authentication
  • Linux: The option “Create RSA-Key” has been renamed to “Create Key,” and the key generation method has been changed to ED25519
  • CIFS: For systems that do not support the SMB standard share IPC$, the C$ share is now also queried for inventory purposes
  • Discovery.exe: The archiving of inventory results in the file system has been standardized for autonomous inventory modules
  • Security: Security has been enhanced through updates to the used software products

  • Documentation
    • Connect: Issues with the resolution and translation of Active Directory group members and enum references have been fixed
    • IT Concept: Issues with creating table of contents in documents have been resolved
    • IT Concept: All known errors related to inserting topology diagrams into concepts have been fixed
    • IT Concept: Inserting images no longer causes text displacement
    • Datasheets: The archiving issue caused by inconsistent path names has been resolved through a revision of the path replacement mechanism
  • Inventory
    • ADDS: User password age is now displayed as intended
    • AWS: Issues with inventorying S3 resources have been fixed
    • IGEL: All monitors connected to thin clients are now properly inventoried
    • Oracle: Captured data is now fully displayed in the interface
    • SNMP: Inventory issues causing incomplete representations in plans for HP, Sophos, Brocade, and Unify have been resolved
    • SNMP: Handling of ‘HostDowngradeException’ now results in a warning instead of an error
    • SNMP: Display errors for unconfigured VLANs with IDs from 3000 on Cisco Catalyst have been fixed
    • SNMP: Add-ons – Issues with sequence checking related to ‘ResponseWait’ have been resolved
    • SNMP: Problems with displaying switch data for Microsens, Juniper, MikroTik, and D-Link have been fixed
    • SNMP: Issues with MIB import for Konica Minolta printers have been fixed, and the import now completes successfully
    • SNMP: All existing IPv4 addresses from SNMP systems are now fully displayed in the “All Systems” view
    • Windows: Issues with setting the software version based on the .XML file during software search have been corrected
  • Application
    • Activation: Issues with license activation via software distribution have been fixed
    • DDS: Issues with executing add-ons during Windows inventory via the Docusnap Discovery Service have been resolved
    • Enterprise Search: Problems with displaying additional information included in the search index have been solved
  • IT Security
    • NTFS: Permissions analysis - Issues with incomplete directory reports have been resolved

2024-07-15 - 13.0.1167.24196

  • Documentation
    • Concept: Fields for capturing the version creator and backup creator have been integrated in addition to the author.

  • Inventory
    • Windows: More accurate detection of physical and virtual Windows systems in the inventory process.
    • Windows: The search function for software and files has been optimized and now reliably supports a large number of search definitions.
  • Docusnap Web
    • Data captured by add-ons is now displayed in Docusnap Web.

  • Inventory
    • Backup Exec: Previous inventory issues have been resolved.
    • DFS: Import issues with DFS have been fixed.
    • DFS: Repeated DFS inventories no longer alter existing NTFS data.
    • SNMP: Errors in inventorying devices such as HP, Konica, Cisco, Zebra, Lancom, and Alcatel have been corrected.
    • SNMP: Network information is now fully displayed in the inventory results.
    • Exchange: Issues with inventorying Microsoft Exchange have been resolved.
    • Linux: All communication data is now fully captured.
    • Linux: Inventory issues caused by timeouts have been fixed.
    • Linux: Discovery-Linux and the gensudo.sh configuration file for script inventory have been updated.
    • Mac: Sporadic “Bad Interpreter” errors have been eliminated.
    • Microsoft 365: Persistence errors have been corrected.
    • Microsoft 365: The error “Bulk insert failed into table tM365ExchangeMailboxFolder” no longer occurs.
    • Microsoft 365: Conditional policies captured with Entra ID now show correct object resolution.
    • Veeam: All known import errors have been resolved.
  • Application
    • User Management: Issues with name conflicts between local and ADDS users have been fixed.
    • Docusnap Discovery Service: The “Last Connection Establishment” information is now always displayed correctly.
    • Enterprise Search: All known issues with user search, assets, and Azure elements have been resolved.
  • IT Security
    • CSV Import: The CSV import now considers all share variants.
  • Documentation
    • Report: “Backup Analysis - Unsecured Systems” now lists each Veeam B&R server only once.
    • Report: “Backup Analysis - Backup Status of All Systems” now shows the correct inventory date for BackupExec servers.
    • Diagrams: The issue of objects with the status “deleted” being displayed has been resolved.
    • Concept: Images in RTF fields are now included in the PDF export.
    • Concept: PDF export issues causing memory problems have been fixed.
    • Concept: Default plans now support placeholders.
    • Concept: Hyperlinks in compilations now function correctly.
    • Concept: The concept compilation now reliably considers the required page sizes and orientations.

2024-03-20 - 13.0.737.24080

  • Inventory
    • Microsoft 365: The ‘Problems with persisting inventory data’ error has been fixed.
    • Microsoft Exchange: All known issues causing missing snapshots or persistence errors have now been resolved.
  • Docusnap Update:
    • The occasional issue where the database update did not complete has been eliminated.

2024-03-14 - 13.0.703.24073

  • Inventory
    • Standardization of autonomous Discovery Modules - Filename, parameters, and integrated help have been standardized.
    • Microsoft 365: Entra-ID inventory now captures the last login event of users (requires P1 license or better).
  • Documentation
    • New report section “Backup Analysis” with reports “Backup status of all systems” and “Unsecured systems”.
    • New report “Services with local users and AD accounts” in the “Windows Security” report section.

  • Inventory
    • Linux: TimeOut settings can now be configured in the advanced options.
    • SNMP: The CSV import function now checks for the correctness of IPv4 addresses.
    • Windows: Improved detection of whether it’s a virtual system.
    • The processing speed of the XML Windows import has been significantly increased.
    • Windows systems - the “additional scans” node now also shows “Veeam B&R” and “DFS” installations.
  • Documentation
    • Physics: Optimized display performance.
    • Physics: Improved the display of images in the site plan.
    • Concepts: Improved handling of inserted Connect-Views.
    • Reports on “Network devices” and “Windows .NET Framework” have been improved.
    • The network plan now optionally filters out IP hosts and workstations for plans with more than 500 devices.
  • Application
    • The Docusnap server status dialog has been improved and now shows much more information.
  • IT Security
    • NTFS analysis: Improved detection of the correct folder size.
    • Resolution of local groups and filtering out of printer shares have been improved.
    • The “Report jobs (csv)” feature now also supports DFS folder targets.

  • Inventory
    • Linux: The installation date of Linux Suse systems is now correctly captured.
    • Microsoft 365: Issues with app creation have been resolved.
    • Microsoft 365: Known inventory problems are now solved.
    • SNMP: Known inventory issues (HP, Profibus, D-Link, Silex) have been resolved.
    • SNMP: VLAN detection for Aruba Switches now works correctly.
    • Windows: Issues with drive designations have been resolved.
    • Windows: Windows IP inventory no longer generates offline systems.
    • Active Directory: The error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” has been eliminated.
    • Active Directory: Reported issues with inventory using Discovery-ADDS.exe are resolved.
    • Microsoft Exchange: Issues causing missing snapshots or persistence errors have been fixed.
    • Microsoft 365: MFA authentication settings are now correctly inventoried.
    • Linux: Certificate inventory now works.
    • SNMP: “Additional programs Telnet/SSH” sequence check is no longer limited to switches.
    • Windows: The dynamic date filter for Windows (AD) now works correctly.
    • DHCP: Import problems with files created by Discovery-DHCP.exe have been eliminated.
    • Veeam B&R: Execution errors (“Import failed”, “unknown error”) no longer occur.
    • Veeam B&R: Further reported issues (license check, incorrect execution times) have been resolved.
  • Docusnap Web
    • Docusnap Web: Known performance and display problems have been resolved.
  • Documentation
    • VLAN report: This report now displays all information correctly.
    • Connect: VLAN overviews with switches now output all switches.
    • Diagrams: Insertion of successor objects is now correct.
    • Concepts: Dynamic objects no longer change unintentionally.
    • Topology plan: Display issues (DLINK, Cisco, manually created) have been resolved.
    • Veeam B&R: The output of the “VM Backups” report now includes files.
    • VMware: The data storage details in the report and data tree are now correct.
    • Connect: Reported issues (AD users, DFS member servers, Azure, VMware) have been resolved. IT Security
    • NTFS analysis: The inventory of DFS folder targets now works correctly.
    • NTFS analysis: The capture of CIFS systems is now complete.

2023-12-14 - 13.0.383.23348

  • SNMP discovery: additional programs - Telnet/SSH support for all SNMP types

  • Inventory
    • Microsoft 365 Teams: Channel information now includes members and role assignments
    • DFS: Checked if there were permission issues when capturing SMB permissions of folder targets
    • DFS: Improved consolidation of individual DFS results into a domain-wide view
    • SNMP: Improved validity check for IPv4 addresses in the assistant
  • Documentation
    • Physics: Improved representation of racks in site plans
    • IT Concept: New handling of very large data elements improves stability

  • Inventory
    • All Modules: Snapshot entries with the same date are no longer created
    • Autonomous Inventory Modules: Standardized parameters such as the help call
    • DFS: Improved automatic detection of DFS servers and fixed known inventory issues
    • Microsoft Exchange: Fixed inventory issues
    • Veeam Backup & Replication: Fixed inventory problems in the assistant
    • NTFS Analysis: Partially incorrect display of folder sizes corrected
  • Documentation
    • IT Concept: Fixed issue where data elements were sporadically not displayed
    • IT Concept: Solved problems that occurred occasionally during loading and saving
    • Physics: Fixed recognized performance issues and errors in the cabling plan

2023-11-22 - 13.0.307.23331

  • Autonomous Inventory Module for Distributed File System (DFS)
  • Docusnap Connect: Automated email dispatch of reports in CSV, Excel, and XML formats.
  • Veeam Backup & Replication: Report on executed restore jobs.
  • Linux Inventory: Expanded capture of certificates and their properties.

  • Autonomous Inventory Modules: Standardization with names like “Discovery-(Module).exe” and consistent parameters for archiving, execution, and logging, such as “Discovery-Windows.exe”.
  • Distributed File System (DFS) Inventory: Complete capture of all DFS namespace variants, including DFS replication groups and detailed information on configuration, topology, and connections.
  • Veeam Backup & Replication Inventory: Cross-platform capture of configurations, backup and tape library infrastructures, virtualization platforms with their virtual machines, backup jobs, and their execution status.
  • Usability Improvements: Option to hide non-essential objects in the Docusnap tree view.

  • Active Directory Domain Service: New “All Memberships” overview for comprehensive representation of direct and indirect memberships of user, group, and computer accounts.
  • DFS Permissions Analysis: Optimization of NTFS analysis for DFS deployments, including detailed reporting.