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Change log for PROMODAG Reports 8
Version 8.7.60 [July 30, 2010]
| Improvements |
| Languages using Unicode characters (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Greek…) are now also supported if using a SQL database. |
| The trace file logging process has been globally improved, particularly when it comes to data import. |
| Performances of the Find Specific Messages report have been improved, particularly filtering options. |
| PROMODAG Reports is now able to discover the active node of a clustered server hosting a renamed database. |
| Date controls have been modified in the Import Message Tracking Files and Import Internet Information Files dialog boxes. |
| The label 'Active Directory Container' has been renamed 'Organizational Unit' in the drop-down lists of the Selection and Group tabs. |
| The Mailbox Storage Information report now uses the term 'quota' rather than 'limit'. |
| 'Register' has been replaced by 'License' all over the application. |
| The Inter-Group Traffic report now displays the number and the volume of messages. |
| Labels linked to objects marked as deleted have been entirely revised. |
| The 'Clear Directory' option has been renamed 'Purge Data Imports' and all related labels have been revised. |
| PROMODAG Reports uses PowerShell to import the size of mailboxes from Exchange 2010. |
| The presence and version of installed MAPI client libraries are now tested when the application is started. |
| The Outlook profile created by PROMODAG Reports are now more explicitely named. |
| The layout and functionalities of the Old Address Usage report has been entirely revised. This report has been renamed SMTP Address Usage. |
| It is now possible to indicate an empty domain name in a server's Properties sheet. |
| The report on Non Delivery Reports now displays complete e-mail addresses if message detail is selected. |
| It is now possible to indicate an empty path in a server's Properties sheet. |
| Reports do no longer group mailboxes at the Exchange organization level if no grouping has been selected. |
| Objects selection and exclusion lists are now saved explicitely as such. |
| The Partners tab has been renamed Correspondents and its content has been entirely revised. |
| 'Partner type' is now called 'Address type'. |
| Exchange 2010 is now supported. |
| The 'Clear Imports' option has been nenamed 'Purge History'. |
| A message now appears in the Exchange Connection tab of Tools > Options if MAPI client libraries installed on the workstation do not support impersonation. |
| A new licensing system has been introduced. |
| It is now possible to enter several SMTP addresses in the Old Address Usage report. |
| It is now possible to count multiple sendings as 1 in the Find Specific Messages report. |
| PROMODAG Reports imports some new attributes linked to mailboxes. |
| Detail options of the Mailbox Storage Information report have been entirely rearranged. |
| PROMODAG Reports does no longer display all available partner/address types in the address type selection list. |
| A new option in the General tab of Tools > Option now allows to display all address types. |
| It is now possible to select SMTP domains or administrative groups in the Find Specific Messages report. |
| Corrections |
| An error occurred during reports export to SharePoint if the remote site was not found. |
| An error occurred if some specific filters were used simultaneously in the Mailbox Content report. |
| Outlook profiles created by PROMODAG Reports were not systematically deleted at the end of the session . |
| Configuration (*.pri), report options (*.pro) and selection (*.prsel) files containing accents could not be properly reloaded. |
| Inter-Group Traffic reports exported as a CSV file contained many lines with no value. |
Version 8.6.105 [July 22, 2010]
| Improvements |
| Exchange 2007 SP3 is now supported. |
| It is now possible to select several email recipients using the Address Book dialog box in the Trace & Alert tab of Tools > Options. |
| The Email Rules report now displays recipients' SMTP addresses, and not their display names. |
| Corrections |
| An exception occurred when e.mail notifications were configured to be sent to several recipients. |
| It was not possible to select several SMTP addresses in the Output tab using the interface. |
| Day selection in the Period tab did not bring the requested days if using a SQL database. |
| An exception occurred when 75 mailboxes or more were selected in the Selection tab of a report also using the Compose For tab. |
Version 8.6.90 [June 8, 2010]
| Improvements |
| Tests on the user account and mailbox used to establish a connection to Exchange via MAPI have been improved. |
| The application now verifies whether the mailbox used to establish a connection to Exchange via MAPI is hidden in the Global Address List. |
| It is now possible to import over 800,000 mail contacts into the database. |
| Exchange 2007 Non-Delivery reports are now taken into account. |
| Corrections |
| Quota filters were not active when no level detail was selected in the Mailbox Storage Information report. |
| Inaccessible mailboxes, or those not matching selected criteria, were not systematically listed at the end of the Mailbox Content report. |
| It was not possible to exclude hidden mailboxes from the Mailbox Content report. |
| An error could occur in the Mailbox Storage Information if some mailboxes were found twice. |
| An exception occurred when selecting mailboxes by SMTP domain. |
| The size of some mailboxes could be imported twice in some very specific circumstances. |
| The main window could display inconsistent information in the case when an Information Store marked as deleted had been restored. |
Version 8.6.50 [February 5, 2010]
| Improvements |
| The directory import process is now able to deal with an OU containing over 200,000 mailboxes. |
| Corrections |
| Filtering on mailbox storage quota did not work in the Mailbox Storage Information report. |
| An error occurred when starting the Old Address Usage report. |
| The OWA Requests List report was identical to the ActiveSync Requests List report. |
| An error occurred in the Mailbox Content report when meeting a root folder whose name started with an @. |
| An overflow exception could occur in the Mailbox Storage information report when filtering on mailbox storage quota. |
Version 8.6.32 [December 10, 2009]
| Improvements |
| The configuration wizard now automatically suggests an alert email address. |
| An explanatory message now appears when the file name of an exported report, or the path to it, are incorrect. |
| An explanatory message now appears when a user attempts to open an Access database while a message tracking files import is in progress. |
| The display of Exchange message tracking files imports history has been improved. |
| The message tracking files import process has been optimized. |
| Performance in IIS log files import has been dramatically improved. |
| The database upgrade process has been optimized. |
| Partial access rights to Active Directory do no longer prevent an NT account from importing the directory. |
| Active nodes of CCR-based clustered servers are now systematically discovered. |
| Errors and warnings are now time-stamped in trace files. |
| Performance of search for Exchange servers during directory import has been improved. |
| Performance of Distribution Group members search has been improved. |
| Performance in discovery of clustered servers' active nodes has been improved. |
| The labels used in the Configuration wizard and its behaviour as a whole have been improved. |
| Distribution Groups are no longer available in the Group tab in order to avoid to report several times on final recipients. |
| The internal SMTP domains listed in the Group tab are now limited to those of primary addresses. |
| The label 'No grouping' now replaces 'Organization' in the Group tab. |
| Corrections |
| Selecting the 'Distinguished Name (Full)' optional attribute slowed down the report generation process. |
| The file name verification of exported reports was not comprehensive. |
| The options 'Show inaccessible mailboxes' and 'Show mailboxes not matching criteria' did not work in the Mailbox Content report. |
| A join error occurred in the Mailbox Folder Size report when 'Organization', and then 'Server' were selected in the Group tab. |
| The 'Date' and 'Grp' options of the Output tab did not work. |
| Invalid separators could be selected in the 'Set dynamic date' option. |
| An error occurred when exporting a report in HTML format to a SharePoint library. |
| An unrecoverable error occurred when a report's title was longer than 127 characters. |
| An error occurred in the Selected Attributes From Mailboxes report if mailboxes were selected by Distribution Group. |
| A 'System resource exceeded' exception occurred with OWA and ActiveSync reports when using an Access database. |
| An 'Arithmetic overflow error' could occur when generating the IMF Events List report. |
| A SQL exception could occur when generating the IMF Events List report. |
| A SQL system exception occurred in the SMTP Servers By Traffic Level report if IP addresses were excluded. |
| The characters in wordings located below the horizontal axis of the OWA Usage Evolution report were too big. |
| An 'Object not set' error could occur when generating the Message Attachments report. |
Version 8.6.14 [September 11, 2009]
| Improvements |
| Windows 2008 R2 (32 & 64-bit editions) is now supported. |
| Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit editions) is now supported. |
| Exchange 2007 SP2 is now supported. |
| Corrections |
| No attachment was created when graphical reports were exported to an email recipient as HTML files. |
| Selection of folders whose name contains a slash were not reloaded. |
| A top n was incorrect if criteria to be applied to the graph and to the table were not identically set in the Options tab. |
| It was impossible to select the Contact folder in reports of the Mailbox Information group. |
| It was not possible to select a Distribution Group in the reports' Output tab. |
| Some messages were mistakenly listed in the Mail Contact Usage report. |
| A rather unclear message was added to trace files when a report option file included in a batch contained the 'Destination: Screen' option. |
| A Null Reference error message occurred in the Public Folders Content report when an inaccessible public folder was met. |
Version 8.6.7 [August 11, 2009]
| Corrections |
| Exported files to an Exchange folder were either empty, or unreadable. |
| Exported reports to MHT format did not display any picture if the name of the file contained accents. |
Version 8.6.5 [August 7, 2009]
| Improvements |
| The Quick Start Manual is now also available in French and German languages. |
| The Help system has been updated and improved. |
| The Clear Imports option now runs faster. |
| Incompatibilities between actions are now more efficiently managed to avoid locking consoles. |
| Trace files have been improved, particularly the section dealing with directory import. |
| Reports of the OWA Activity group now run faster. |
| Reports of the OWA Activity and ActiveSync Activity were entirely revised. |
| The Recipient Detail report now runs faster. |
| Messages sent by PROMODAG Reports are now copied in the Sent items folder of Outlook. |
| HTML exports now handle names containing accents. |
| All secondary SMTP adresses were not listed in the Selected Attributes From Mailboxes report. |
| CSV export of multi-value fields was improved in the Selected Attributes From Mailboxes and Recipient Details reports. |
| The Email Rules report's layout was improved. |
| The Mailbox Traffic Cost Chargeback was modified to allow displaying a particularly large grand total. |
| A new PROMODAG Reports SQL database is now created with an SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation. |
| Information store types are now detected during the configuration wizard execution. |
| Import of recipients vith an identical legacyExchangeDN is now carried out with a method that avoids creating duplicates. |
| All local (accepted) SMTP domains were not, in certain circumstances, identified as such. |
| It is now possible to modify reports' titles. |
| Corrections |
| Filtering by type of items did not work in the Mailbox Content Summary report. |
| The total count of mailboxes was not correct in the General Mailbox Traffic report. |
| Axis label remained in French in the Mailbox Traffic Evolution report, whatever the selected language was. |
| Mailboxes with no Last Logon attribute did not appear in the Mailbox Storage Information report. |
| An SQL error occurred during message tracking files import in batch mode when an administrative group's name contained an apostrophe. |
| No filter was working in the Mailbox Content report if one of them contained a keyword search that was too long. |
| The Mailbox Storage Information report allocated an incorrect Last Logon attribute (01/01/1900) to mailboxes that had never sent any message, but that had sent some. |
| Week numbers were incorrect in some reports. |
| Some recipients were duplicated in the CSV export of the Recipient Detail report. |
| Some objects marked as deleted could still appear in the interface even if the relevant option was selected in the View menu. |
| Some objects marked as deleted could still appear in reports even if they were expressly excluded. |
| Mailboxes with no rules appeared as inaccessible in the Email Rules report. |
| Email alerts were not always sent. |
| The Performed Actions on Messages could calculate, in certain circumstances, a totally unrealistic average age of messages. |
| The Performed Actions on Messages could detect, in certain circumstances, some mailboxes as inaccessible. |
| It was impossible to reload a selection file located in a subfolder of the default directory. |
Version 8.5.0 [December 11, 2008]
| Improvements |
| Local time does no longer need to be recalculated if time zone definitions are identical (e.g. Madrid, Paris and Amsterdam, Berlin are both 2 hours ahead of GMT). |
| The ADSTORES import process has been improved. |
| Exchange 5.5 and 2000 message tracking files can now be imported from a workstation using non-Gregorian calendar settings. |
| Report operations are now also logged in interactive mode. |
| The Run a Group of Reports option has been revised and improved. Its interface is now more reactive. |
| It is now possible to count and view the names of public folders while their sizes are being imported. |
| The public folder size import process duration has been optimized. |
| A new method to link servers and AD sites has been implemented to take subnet overlapping into account. |
| Corrections |
| Information stores default values were not correctly taken into account in the Mailbox Storage Information report. |
| The Item Breakdown by Age report does not work on particularly large mailboxes. |
| An overflow error occurred in the Mailbox Storage Information report if a very high storage warning limit was met. |
| Running several Mailbox by Traffic Level reports in one single batch job could lead to unexpected results, for the batch file was only able to use one single partners selection. |
| An overflow error occurred in the Mailbox Specific Content Estimation report if a very high storage warning limit was met. |
| Histograms of the Folder Size Comparison report did not display correctly. |
Version 8.4.0 [October 6, 2008]
| Improvements |
| The Help file was entirely rewritten. |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is now supported. |
| Corrections |
| The 'Does not contain' operator did not work. |
| Filtering traffic by type of partner did not bring the expected results. |
Version 8.3.0 [August 7, 2008]
| Improvements |
| Definitions of all reports have been entirely rewritten. |
| It is now possible to select different settings files (*.pri) in order to manage multiple configurations of PROMODAG Reports. |
| Speed of the General Mailbox Traffic report has been improved, especially when several partners are selected. |
| It is now possible to select item types to be analyzed in the Filter tab of the Performed Actions on Messages report. |
| MAPI Unicode fields are now taken into account, so that reports on content can exploit Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic characters. |
| The Exchange Connection tab in Tools > Options has been improved. The NT account is now requested first, and a new 'Suggest a mailbox' button automatically retrieves the mailbox associated with tha NT account. |
| Four new reports on ActiveSync activity have been added. |
| PROMODAG Reports now checks whether the NT account used for the MAPI connection belongs to the Exchange Organization Administrators, or the Exchange View-Only Administrators groups. |
| Five new recipient types have been added: Dynamic distribution group, SMTP mailbox, System mailbox, Other system recipient, unknown recipient type. |
| Reports on content now diplay item creation date in local time (and not GMT). |
| A new shortcut menu allows users to run or to delete reports in the reports tree. |
| A new Recent Reports command has been added to the File menu. |
| It is now possible to exclude folders from a mailbox folders selections. |
| An index was added to the RECIPIENTS.Id_RecipientType to improve performance. |
| Corrections |
| The database upgrade failed with an error message: Invalid attempt to call FieldCount when reader is closed. |
| The 'Exclude deleted objects from reports' option did not work. |
| Filtering was not working properly in the Mailbox Storage Information report. |
| An error occurred in the Directory Objects report when selected objects were grouped by administrative group. |
| Sorting by number and by size were inverted in the Mailbox Storage Information report. |
| An error occurred when an empty MessageId field was met in an Exchange 2007 message tracking file. |
| Exclusions on storage groups were not taken into account in the Information Store Size Comparison report. |
| An error occurred in the Mailbox Traffic Cost Chargeback and Mailbox Storage Cost Chargeback reports when selected objects were grouped by administrative group or by server. |
| The Item Breakdown by Age report did not work properly if another time frame than Days was selected in the Intervals tab. |
| The Find Specific Messages report only retrieved one result per group if no detail level was selected. |
| The Mailbox Breakdown by Size report did not count mailboxe properly. |
| An error occurred if reports were exported to an non-existent network drive. |
| The '< 'and '>' and operators were inverted in the Public Folders Content and Mailbox Content reports. |
| A mysterious 'Load Report Failed' message appeared if too many separate reports had been requested. The error message has been made more explicit. |
| Selected objects were displayed several times in the Mailbox Storage Information report if the mailbox detail level was not selected. |
| It was not possible to import IIS virtual directories. |
| The Mailbox Content and Mailbox Folder Size reports did not display the folders count. |
| Reports on OWA and ActiveSync Activity did not take specific time slots into account. |
| The item types selection did not work properly in reports of the Mailbox Information group. |
| The scope criteria of dynamic distribution groups was not taken into account (attribute msExchDynamicDLBBaseDN). |
| An error occurred when exporting a report as a CSV file to a SharePoint document library. |
| Size was incorrectly calculated in the Mailbox Size Evolution and Mailbox Size Fluctuation reports. |
| Time intervals were not correctly interpreted in the Item Breakdown by Age and the Item Breakdown by Size reports. |
| The Connector Flow Evolution and Connector Flow by Type reports displayed data for all recipient types. |
Version 8.2.0 [May 7, 2008]
| Improvements |
| A Group tab was added to the Distribution Groups report. |
| A new option was added to the Compose for tab. It is now possible to directly email a report without having to store the message in the Outbox first. |
| The public folders selection method has been modified. PROMODAG Reports now only retrieves selected folders. |
| A previewed report can now be saved as a report options file (PRO), or as a snapshot (RPT). |
| The Selected Information from Mailboxes report is now called Selected Attributes from Mailboxes. |
| The Criteria tab is now called Filter. |
| 'detailed properties' are now called 'additional directory attributes'. |
| Subjects decoding has been improved. |
| The application is now available in German language. |
| A new report has been added to the Billing group of reports: Cost Allocation. |
| SMTP address has been added to the available recipient types of the Selection and Correspondent tabs in the Find Specific Messages report. |
| Dynamic (or query-based) distribution groups are now taken into account. |
| The documentation was entirely rewritten. |
| Corrections |
| The vertical scroll bar was partly hidden in the reports Selection tabs. |
| All reports were modified to allow a decent HTML export. |
| An error occurred in the Information Store Size Evolution report if results were grouped by Storage Group. |
| An error occurred when Exploring form was selected as report output format. |
| The CSV export gave incorrect recipients details. |
| LDAP connection was not identified if the server was running Exchange Server 5.5. |
| The Compose for tab was not working. |
| Results were incorrect in the Mailbox Size Breakdown report. |
| An irrelevant warning message systematically appeared if information stores were selected by storage group in the Information Store Size Evolution/Comparison reports. |
| Selection did not work properly in the Public Folders Content report. |
| The database size systematically reached its authorized limit if the Message Delivery Status report was run. |
| The application locked when attempting to import the size of information stores. |
| The 'Not Like' logical operator was not working in the General Mailbox Traffic report. |
| An 'Index Out of range' error occurred in any report of the Public Folder Information group. |
| The destination output to SharePoint was neither recorded in the report options file, nor retrieved when report was reloaded. |
| A new method has been implemented to go through hierarchy tables (mainly used to obtain a list of public folders). |
| The library URL was not recorded, and MHT export was not working when destination output to SharePoint was selected. |
Version 8.1.0 [February 28, 2008]
| Improvements |
| Promodag Reports version 7 batch files (*.prb) are now converted to version 8. |
| New report added to the Mailbox Information group: Appointment search. |
| Change of CSV file format (UTF8) to accommodate Chinese characters. |
| Change of time zone definition (Venezuela only). |
| .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is now supported. |
| Corrections |
| Some reports produced unreadable HTML exports. |
| Improvement and better diagnosis of directory import. |
| It is now possible to directly export reports in HTML format without creating subfolders. |
| A random error disrupted the optional message tracking files compression process following their import. |
| message tracking files could not be moved to another location after their import if this option was selected. |
| An error prevented the execution of storage size import in batch mode. |
| An irrelevant error message was displayed when using the Help > Technical Support request option. |
| email addresses containing inverted commas were not allocated to the right partner during message tracking files import. |
| The 'x previous months' selection in Period tab did not work properly. |
| Some time periods were missing in the Message Breakdown by Hour of the Day graph. |
| Reports did not run in batch mode if the PRO file was located in a subfolder. |
| An error occurred in the Public Folders Content report if the folders selection included a name containing a @ or a \. |
| An error occurred in the Old Address Usage report if the Only Secondary Addresses box was checked. |
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