Exec Sum Report

The OS score weighting can now be customized. You can individually weight the OS score given to Vista, 2003, XP and 2000. Enter the % weights (0 to 100) in the four columns normally used for %score. Place Vista in the 100% column, 2003 in the 75% column, and so on. All legacy OSs are given a zero. If you have a large number of legacy OSs deployed, considered turning off the OS score.

Changed the default System Activity search filter data to only count "*Success THEN*" for Latest Audit and Patch Scan. Prior to this release, the default values counted any appearance of Latest Audit and Patch Scan, including reschedule events. Note: You must edit any saved Exec Sum Reports yourself to add these new filters in by clicking the Change Rows button.

Login Policy

The password strength section lets you specify the following:

• Block administrators from changing their login name
• Require password change every N days
• Enforce minimum password length
• Prohibit password reuse
• Require upper and lower case alpha characters
• Require both alpha and numeric characters
• Require non-alphanumeric characters

Patch Mgmt

Added WARNINGS and/or NOTES to screens affected by Initial Update to better inform users of its impact on patch management functions.

Patch Mgmt – Patch Status

Enhanced the Patch Status page with the following:

• Added a new column, "Missing Manual", to provide a count of those patches that require a manual effort to apply. These patches cannot be processed by Automatic Update or Initial Update.  The total of all missing patches is the sum of the "Missing Approved", "Missing Denied", and "Missing Manual".
• Added the ability to display the status of Initial Update while it is being processed.  The Initial Update status message and date/time is displayed instead of the column totals when ever Initial Update is being processed.
• Patch Test will not be performed on machines that have Initial Update being processed.  Added NOTE on screen to that effect.
• Added the ability to display the name of machine’s operating system if the OS is not supported for patching

Patch Mgmt – Rollback

Added the date, if available, that the patch was installed to the screen similar to the Patch History screen.

Patch Mgmt – Cancel Updates

Add a notation to the "Pending Update Install Status" column to indicate that the patches currently pending installation are being processed by Initial Update.  Canceling pending updates will now also cancel Initial Update.

Patch Mgmt – File Source

Enhanced the File Source page with the following:

• Modified the "Pulled from file server using UNC path" option by adding a Machine Group Filter dropdown list to filter the list of machines on which the file share is located.  Previously, the Select Machine Group that filters the list of machines displayed on the page was used.  This prevented users from selecting a machine in another group as the file share unless they selected all machine groups for the page.
• Added a sub-option under the "Pulled from file server using UNC path" option.  This new sub-option permits the administrator to configure a machine to obtain patches from the file server when the machine is connected to the LAN, but fallback to download the patches from the Internet if the file server is not available for any reason (cannot connect to file server or bad network credential).

Patch Mgmt – Windows Automatic Update

Added checkbox to "Force auto-reboot if user is logged on" to the "Configure - Force Windows Automatic Update configuration to the following settings" setting. We also changed the underlying default to NOT force the reboot. This is a Windows Update registry setting that only affects Windows Automatic Update.  Windows Automatic Update cannot use Kaseya’s Reboot Action settings.

Patch Mgmt – Office Source

Added the ability to filter by Office products/product codes to make it easier to set multiple machines to a common Office source share.  Since the same Office product can have one of several product codes, the filter ensures that only products with the same product code are selected together.

Patch Mgmt – Command Line

Renamed the "Default" button to "Reset to Original" and modified the action from replacing all command line switches to only those for the selected patches.

Status Monitor

The status monitor pop up window no longer counts or displays template accounts (agents that have never checked in).

Script Editor

Fixed problem with file list that would not list shared files unless that admin also had rights to upload and delete shared files. All admins may see shared files.

Agent Installer

Increased Agent installer options buffer from 128 bytes to 2048 bytes. This change allows longer messages to be included in the Agent Install switches when using Deploy Agents to create the Agent install package.

Video Streaming

Added link to terminate video streaming sessions. As an admin, when you start the wait for a user to initiate a video streaming session you are listed on the getHelp.asp page. Click the terminate session link to remove yourself from that list.

Backup Scheduling

All parameters for both Schedule Volume and Schedule Folder are now independently settable. So now you can change a machines backup schedule without modifying the backup set count or recurring interval.

Backup - Differentials

You can now choose to save all differential backups made since the last full backup in addition to just the last differential backup. Choosing to only save the last differential saves the most disk space.

Backup Imaging

• Vista is now supported. You can now backup Vista boxes
• In previous releases if a network connection dropped, however briefly, the backup or verify failed. With 4.7.1, the system retries for up to 10 seconds before giving up. This addresses issues found with NAS storage devices.
• This release has better VSS support.

Folder Backup

In addition to local drive paths, you can now specify UNC paths to backup. For example, you can include a folder like \\fileshare\docs into your list of directories to backup. Note that the file share must be accessible by the credential set up for this machine (Set Credential command under the agent tab).

Backup Alert

Added a separate alert for Full Backup Completed. This alert only goes out after a full backup completes, as opposed to incremental or differential backups. If you physically transfer disk images periodically, use this alert. Just after a full backup completes is a good time to transfer disk images.

Disk Info List

Show used space in addition to free and total space for all disk drive space tables and reports.

Application Changes Alert

You can now add exclude directories to the Application Changes alert. Any application added or removed to these directories will not generate an alarm. The exclude path may contain wildcards.

KServer

KServer modifications include the following:

• Log a script execution error when processing a Set Credential script command that has an empty username.
• Escape the ampersand character in the Send Message script command so that the character appears correctly in the dialog box shown on the Agent
• Escape the ampersand character in the Execute Shell Command so that the character is correctly recognized when it is part of the directory path.
• Corrected processing of script IF command "IF user response is Yes" when no user was logged in so that it takes the ELSE path

Agent – Pause Command Processing

The processing of the Pause Script command has been shifted from the KServer to the Agent to avoid the possibility of putting all process threads to sleep in the server for a prolonged period which would result in Agents going offline.

You must update your Agent to the current version in order to process any script with the Pause Script command.  The KServer will now fail at the Pause Script command when a script is run on an AgentMon.exe prior to v4.7.0.4.

Agent – Workgroup/Domain name

The Agent now reports whether the computer is joined to a workgroup or domain and the corresponding name.  This information can be used in creating a view as well as shown on the Agent status page and reports.

Agent – Response Issue

The Agent detects a connection corruption caused by security software that blocks KServer messages requesting an immediate checkin.  The corrupted connection was causing a 3 minute timeout before establishing a new connection to run the pending tasks.  When the Agent detects the symptoms of this condition, it removes the timeout so that the tasks can run at the specified checkin period.

Agent – Event log description

Resolved an issue so that the event log description is properly retrieved when the vendor provides multiple event log message DLLs.  Also fixed an issue with retrieving the description when the vendor provides only a 64-bit event log message DLL.

Agent – Event log collection

Resolved an issue with retrieving event log information on Vista when the application provides access only through the newer event log interface and omits backward compatibility through the legacy interface.

Agent – Contact Administrator Menu Item

Resolved an issue that opened the Administrator login page instead of the User login page when selecting the "Contact Administrator…" agent menu item.

Deploy Agents

Modified download page , dl.asp, to not list any packages if nothing is checked on the Deploy Agents page. Previously, it would always list the default package if nothing else was found.

Login

Error message changed to "Username or password is incorrect" when either the password or username was not correct. Prior to this release the error message said which was wrong.

Log display

You can now sort the Event Logs and Script Log by column in the Agent Logs function under either the Agent Tab or the single machine interface.

Edit Profile

Added a checkbox to the Edit Profile function called Show notes as tooltip. Checking this for any machine ID will display the notes field for that machine to display on the tooltip for the agent's status icon. Use this feature to quickly access notes for any particular machines.

Exec Summary Report

The OS score weighting has been changed to (Vista-2003:100%, XP:75%, 2000:50%, NT4:25%)

Function Access

Added ability to turn on/off access to admin notes on a per admin role basis.

Chat

Administrators can not remove their names from the list of available administrators to chat with. The list seen by administrators (in the Chat function under the Remote Cntl tab) and the list seen by users in the user login are controlled separately.

Restore Database

Fixed a problem only seen when moving your KServer to a new machine and installing on a different disk drive. The Restore Database function had a problem restoring the scheduled reports.

Set Credentials

Added a test function to verify the credentials work

System Info

System information now inserts a link to the PC manufacturer’s support site when a field in the System Information table may be used to access this data. Currently supported manufacturers are:

• Dell
• IBM
• Lenovo
• HP
• Compaq
• Gateway
• Sony

Views

Added option to list machines that have never checked in. Use this filter to list template accounts.

Monitor – System Check

Enhanced the capabilities of Custom command within the System Check function.  Custom commands will now require an output file assigned by the administrator.  Alarms will be created by searching the output file for a specific value(s) by using the operator contains or does not contain. 

Added alarm Re-Arm time, to allow all system checks to ignore addition alarms for the specified duration.

License Manager

The new License Manager function under the System tab, lets a master administrator allocate maximum license usage on a per machine group basis.

Remote Control – K-VNC

Added support for K-VNC to provide remote control on Vista.  K-VNC has also been added as an option for Video Streaming.

Remote Control – RAdmin

Added support for RAdmin 3.0. RAdmin 3.0 includes full support to remote control Vista.

Remote Control RDP

Support remote control of a terminal server running on a port other than the default port 3389.

Remote Control Policy

Both the Admin Role Policy and Machine Policy now support a fourth policy type. Require permission will not allow remote control unless a user gives permission. If no one is currently logged in, then permission is denied.

Automatic SQL Script Variables

SQL view parameters are now available as automatically declared script variables.  Use the format #SqlViewName.ColumnName# in a script variable to access the dbo.SqlView.Column for the machine ID executing the script. These automatic variables allows you to skip the call to GetVariable with the option "SQL View Data" with the format of SqlViewName/ColumnName.  See the context sensitive help for the System tab -> Database Views function for a list of the SQL views and columns that are available.

GetVariable Script Command

Added a new option "SQL View Data" that will place the result of a database query to retrieve data from an SQL view for a specific machine ID or for the machine ID executing the script.  The format of the parameter for this option is SqlViewName/ColumnName/mach.groupID or SqlViewName/ColumnName. The latter format is an explicit form of the automatic SQL script variable.  See the context sensitive help for the System tab -> Database Views function for a list of the SQL views and columns that are available.

Audit – Documents

There is a new function under the Audit tab named Documents. Use the Documents function to store files associated with a machine ID. Typically, people store things like scanned copies of purchase receipts, contract information, and configuration notes here.

User Welcome page

All the text on this page can now be customize. Prior to v4.8, a Welcome to your system name was always shown at the top.

Agent on Vista x64

The Agent now runs on Vista x64.  Drivers provided with the Agent are signed.  The only known restrictions are:

• Terminal services (RDP) is the only remote control option
• Network access can be granted/denied and network statistics can be gathered only for 32-bit applications

Reset Password

The password is now set to never to expire when it is set using the Reset Password function under the Remote Cntl tab.  This feature requires a new Agent, version 4.7.0.19 or above.