What's New ?

Version 3.5.3

• Fixed several snapshot creation bugs.
• Partial tree recovery fixed.
• Added a possibility to filter active connections.

Version 3.5.2

• Fixed the errors that occurred when connections stats were updated and when the program attempted to sort values of over 2 GB in size.
• Added a history of search requests.
• Made improvements in several dialog windows.

Version 3.5.1

• Fixed several snapshot creation bugs.
• The day of the week is now displayed.
• You can now view the list of opened files as a plain list.
• Added a possibility to delete a snapshot.

Version 3.5

• Connection statistics display has been added.
• CSV file support has been improved.
• XML files are now saved in the UTF-8 coding.
• Snapshot caching errors have been fixed.
• A feature for updating the cache upon request has been added.
• Errors in calculating effective rights have been fixed.
• The user manual has been updated.
• A variety of small fixes.

Version 3.5 (Beta-2)

• Snapshots for NetWare 6.x were not created. This has been fixed.
• Support has been fixed for Novell Client when using 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7/Vista/2008.
• Reports did not open in the internet browser in 64-bit versions of Windows. This has been fixed.
• Several small fixes.

Version 3.5 (Beta)

Image Creator for NetWare

General

• Interface has been redone, many minor fixes and improvements.
• Many main window elements now use popup menus.
• Files can now be displayed using system icons.
• Images are now not loaded automatically on program start (user setting).

Network

• Algorithm for updating network information has been improved.
• Now capable of searching for the nearest server.
• A Network Database Manager has been added for configuring server filtering.
• A server connection dialog has been added for managing new connection parameters.
• A server login history has been added to the login window. Now the user list is refreshed by request, and not before the dialog itself is generated.
• Program can now reconnect to a server when necessary.
• Servers can now be shut down.
• Dialogs which can affect server functioning now ask for additional confirmation.
• The list of servers can now be viewed either in flat or hierarchical mode.
• A dialog for getting more detailed server information has been added.

Images

• The format for saving images has changed.
• Capabilities for storing large trees have been significantly expanded. An image can now hold over 250,000 objects.
• Support for compressing images has been added.
• Support for setting a password has been added.
• Support has been added for access privileges for Bindery/NDS objects and inherited rights filters.
• Support for Alias objects has been added.
• Detection of object identifier, modification time and revision number has been added.
• Support for Postal Address object text attributes has been added
• Support for account restrictions and user passwords has been expanded.
• Support for Print Server, Printer and Queue print objects has been added.
• Support for object security equivalents has been expanded.
• Support for file attributes has been added.
• Support for saving DOS file names has been added.
• Support for space limitations on files has been added.
• Additional information is now saved on the image about where and who created and changed it (computer name, account name, Novell Client version, etc.).

Image Creation

• Improvements have been made to the NetWare server backup algorithm, reducing average image creation time by 20-30%.
• A Backup Wizard has been added, allowing more precise settings for image creation.
• An image can now be created not only of an entire tree, but of selected branches, volumes or folders.
• Logging of the image creation process has been added.
• Now each new image is saved in a separate file.

Image Viewing and Editing

• The dialog for creating new objects has been improved. It is more convenient now to create a series of objects in different containers.
• When creating new objects and files, the program now offers to create only correct types in keeping with the NDS schema.
• Objects and files can be copied within an image.
• New dialogs have been added for editing security equivalents, operator rights, and object access rights.
• Navigation in dialogs for editing objects and files has been improved.
• Now all of an object tree can be viewed in the Objects tab in its entirety, as well as detailed information on the rights of the current object.
• A Printers tab has been added, displaying the print system hierarchy.
• Now personal and effective trustee rights can be conveniently viewed in the same window.
• Calculation of effective trustee rights has been improved
• A file's effective trustees can now be viewed.
• The list of objects and files can now be viewed either as a tree or as a flat list
• The dialog for object search has been improved.
• Images can be converted from Bindery to NDS and the reverse.
• Additional object and file properties can now be chosen for on-screen display.

Recovery

• Recovery algorithm has been improved. Recovery time for large trees has been cut by an average of half.
• Two new modes for recovering user passwords have been added: set a single password or load passwords from a file.
• The program now stores selected settings.

Reports

• Reports Constructor interface has been redone and improved.
• New profiles for reports can be created.
• Object and file filtering have been added.
• The lists of object and file attributes available for reports have been expanded.
• Handling of column contents has been improved.
• Report creation speed has been improved.
• Report appearance has been changed.
• Now the logo can be turned off and the color of even-numbered cells can be changed in reports.
• An image can now be chosen for preview.

Miscellaneous

• Detection of the internal version of Novell Client has been fixed.
• A description of Novell Client error codes has been added to logs for image creation and restore.
• XML creation errors have been fixed.

Connection Monitor for NetWare

General

• Now a separate application in the toolkit.
• Interface has been redone, many minor fixes and improvements.
• Many main window elements now use popup menus.
• Files can now be displayed using system icons.
• The monitor has a full-fledged window with a list of servers and network tools.

Snapshots

• The speed of receiving connection snapshots has been significantly increased.
• Now the program saves the server snapshots that have been made in its database. They can be viewed even if the server is disconnected.
• The list now includes connections belonging to system services and users who are not logged in.

Snapshot Viewing

• Changes are now displayed when a snapshot is updated.
• Folders containing blocked files can be opened in Windows Explorer.

Version 3.4.3

• Now it is possible to export NetWare images into files of the XML format.
• Now it is possible to sort the list of objects by any column in the image editor.
• Several small fixes.

Version 3.4.2

General:

• Now the official version number of NetWare is displayed instead of the internal one as it was before.
• The version of the source server and the tree name was not displayed for the image. Fixed.
• Information in the status bar has been extended.
• Now XP/Vista themes are supported.
• A lot of minor fixes.

Image:

• Now it is possible to add the complete list of folders to the image.
• Bugs in the New Resource dialog box have been fixed.

Reports:

• Now it is possible to create a report for multiple servers.

Recovery:

• Now it is possible to set an empty password for users in case of recovery.

Connection monitor:

• The main algorithm of the monitor has been optimized.
• No user description for Bindery servers was displayed. Fixed.
• Now the registration date is displayed.
• Now statistics by connections is displayed in the status bar.
• Settings allowing you to increase the performance rate of the monitor have been added.

Version 3.4.1

• The processing of the program loading parameters is fixed.
• The algorithm of connections monitoring is improved.

Version 3.4

General:

• The bug of authentication through Bindery has been fixed.
• Now it is possible to reset the settings of the program to their defaults.
• Unnecessary limitations concerning object names are removed from the image editor.
• Now the name of the current object is displayed on the "Groups" and "Users" tabs.
• Now it is possible to minimize the program from some secondary dialog boxes.

Image:

• Now additional container and user attributes are supported.
• Now it is possible to hide secondary attributes when you are creating a new object in the editor.
• Now it is possible to determine the status of a user account.
• Now it is possible to determine when a user logged to the server last time.
• The bug when you could create a group or a user without a parent container has been fixed.
• It was impossible to get a Bindery image if there was at least one object with a dot in its name. Fixed.
• If you were editing the [Root] and [Public] objects, the container type changed to "Country". Fixed.

Recovery:

• Now there is a recovery wizard instead of an options dialog box in the program.
• Now the program can recover NDS/Bindery objects, object attributes, user account settings and group settings.
• Now it is possible to recover the object tree and the file system of the server from the image of another server.
• Now recovery logs are saved to a separate directory and a new log is created for each session.
• Now logs are more detailed.
• Now it is possible to select a separate object in the tree without selecting embedded elements.

Version 3.3.3

• Getting trustee rights for Novell Client 4.80 and earlier versions is fixed.
• Now it is possible to perform a quick scan through IR filters in server folders.
• The algorithm of file system recovery is improved.

Version 3.3.2

• Now it is possible to disable scanning folders for IRF.
• The bug with sorting by login time in the connection monitor is fixed.

Version 3.3.1

• Fixed the support of volumes that don’t use the long name space.
• Added support of paths created as a result of incorrect server localization.
• Container descriptions weren’t displayed. This is fixed now.
• Minor changes in the interface.

Version 3.3

General:

• When the mouse was used to switch between the tabs in objects, some menu items were unavailable. Fixed.
• The bug due to which the program opened an unlicensed connection with a server and made it impossible to use disk functions is fixed.
• Checking whether the server is blocked or unblocked is added.

Image:

• Now the "Organizational role" objects are supported.
• Now users with supervisor rights are supported.
• Now various types of containers are supported.
• Now inherited rights filters (IRF) of the file system are supported.
• Now the list of containers and resources is displayed in the form of a tree.
• Now it is possible to change the names of file resources.
• Now trustee paths in an image are created in a more convenient dialog box.
• Now the program calculates the full (effective) rights of an object for all existing server resources.

Reports:

• Now it is possible to create reports on the selected objects.
• Now you can highlight even and odd strings in the report.
• Now each object in the report can have its own icon.
• Now not more than 10 objects are displayed in the report preview mode.
• If the name of an object contained the format character (%) without the number of its parameter, the program could freeze while it was creating a report. Fixed.
• If the constructor was opened from the report creation window, profiles were not saved. Fixed.

Restoration:

• Now it is possible to remove old trustees.
• Now it is possible to select whether to restore trustee rights or not.
• Now it is possible to restore inherited rights filters (IRF).

Monitoring connections:

• Determining the network addresses of clients and the time they connect to the server is added.