Release Information
Version 2.0, released October 14, 2011, with the following products included:
- NetWrix Account Lockout Examiner
- NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter
- NetWrix Active Directory Object Restore Wizard
- NetWrix Bulk Password Reset
- NetWrix Change Reporter for System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- NetWrix Disk Space Monitor
- NetWrix Event Log Manager
- NetWrix Exchange Change Reporter
- NetWrix File Server Change Reporter
- NetWrix Group Policy Change Reporter
- NetWrix Inactive Users Tracker
- NetWrix Logon Reporter
- NetWrix Network Infrastructure Change Reporter BETA
- NetWrix Non-owner Mailbox Access Reporter for Exchange
- NetWrix Password Expiration Notifier
- NetWrix Password Manager
- NetWrix Privileged Account Manager
- NetWrix Server Configuration Change Reporter
- NetWrix Service Monitor
- NetWrix SharePoint Change Reporter
- NetWrix SQL Server Change Reporter
- NetWrix VMware Change Reporter
NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter:
- Real-time alerting on Active Directory changes that allows to "subscribe" select recipients to receive instant e-mail alerts when something critical changes in Active Directory (e.g. membership of security groups). Alerts are sent by e-mail immediately after a change is detected. Alert notification text can be customized and notification templates can include "who", "what", "when", "where" fields and "before" and "after" values for every critical change.
- Subscriptions to any Advanced reports. Before version 7.0, the subscription capability was available only for basic "ad-hoc" reports (daily reports with the full list of changes). The new subscription feature allows to select any available reports, specify report filters, configure schedule (daily, weekly, monthly) and specify report recipients (e-mail addresses).
- Active Directory Snapshot Reporting to report on Active Directory contents (AD "snapshots"), such as "All Members of Domain Admins group", "All Security Groups in AD" etc. You can report both on the current state and on historical data (e.g. "All members of Domain Admins group as of December 31, 2008").
- All reports were extended with 'Where' field. The field value reflects a domain controller name where the change was made.
- Integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager via separately available SCOM Management Pack.
- Charts in addition to standard reports - e.g. display changes for a certain time period visually.
- Browsing of Advanced Reports was improved, the new version allows to specify report filters before report generation starts. This improves user experience and saves time.
- Significantly improved and optimized Active Directory change tracking technology, with less overhead on domain controllers and much better performance.
- Precise tracking of AD attributes changed and reverted back during the same day (before 7.0 it was limited). For example, if an attribute's initial value was A, then it was changed to B and after several hours - to C, the new version will report on these changes in detail, with all intermediate attribute values. Note: all the intermediate attribute values will be reported if the time interval between changes made to the attribute is at least 10 minutes.
- Significantly improved handling of Security event logs that prevents log overwrites and lost audit data.
- Improved reliability and error diagnostics: administrators are immediately notified about audit data processing issues.
- Custom Report Builder for easy creation of custom reports. This allows customers to create their own reports on Active Directory changes and snapshots.
- Performance optimization of SQL database operations for better scalability in large Active Directory environments.
- Simplified management of installed license codes for NetWrix products.
- Automatic Advanced Reporting installation and configuration locally for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and above.
- Ability to send e-mails through SMTP server with SSL support (including the implicit SSL mode).
- User interface improvements in Enterprise Management Console.
- Improved reliability of NetWrix Enterprise Management Console.
- Easy to use taskpad with most frequent operations on the Welcome page of Enterprise Management Console.
- Active Directory Object Restore Wizard now restores users and computers with their passwords preserved. The feature makes these objects fully functioning as before they were deleted without the need to reset a user's password or rejoin computers to the domain. Note: additional configuration of the Active Directory Schema Container is required for the feature to work properly, please see the documentation for more information.
NetWrix Account Lockout Examiner:
- Major bug fixes and stability updates.
NetWrix VMware Change Reporter:
- Change auditing for new types of VMware configuration objects: Alarm, Cluster, Firewall Port, and Storage Path Selection.
- Support for large VMware environments (optimized memory usage).
- Major bug fixes and stability improvements.
NetWrix Change Reporter for SCVMM:
- Support for x64-bit operating systems.
- Auditing of WHO made changes into System Center Virtual Machine Manager configuration and WHEN those changes were made, in addition to auditing of WHAT was changed.
- All audit reports now include human friendly descriptions for changes, describing what specific changes actually mean (what actually happened), listed in the Details column. Examples of descriptions: "Remove checkpoint" or "Change properties of virtual machine".
- The ability to audit SC VMM configuration changes made BEFORE the product was installed.
- Full support for SC VMM 2008 R2.
- The ability to generate audit reports for arbitrary time frames, not limited to timestamps of collected configuration snapshots.
- Minor bug fixes.
NetWrix Event Log Manager:
- The event filters can now define what events must be saved to the Audit Archive (highly compressed file-based storage), SQL database (for reports) or both.
- New event filtering option for real-time alerts to react on events from specific users (filter by user name).
- Improvements in network traffic compression capability.
- Granular control of diagnostic logging into Application Log via HKLM\SOFTWARE\NetWrix\Event Log Manager\WriteToApplicationLog registry setting.
- Added e-mail reports server SMTP authentication option and SSL support.
- Many minors bug fixes and stability updates.
NetWrix Inactive Users Tracker:
- Separate options for processing of computer and user accounts.
- Support for SMTP authentication (including SMTP SSL).
- Detection of inactive local computer accounts (in addition to Active Directory accounts).
- Bug fixes and misc. minor improvements.
NetWrix Network Infrastructure Change Reporter:
- Auditing of configuration changes in SNMP-enabled network devices: what settings were changed and where.
- Automatic discovery of new devices and detection of disappeared devices within given IP ranges.
- Reporting of what was changed (configuration setting names) as well as previous and new configuration values.
- Scheduled reports automatically sent by e-mail to designated administrators.
- Out of the box support for common device types and the ability to import MIB files for any other devices.
- Filtering of changes by setting name (e.g. exclude settings that change too frequently and clutter reports).
NetWrix Privileged Account Manager:
- Managed account discovery feature that allows to automatically pull privileged accounts and systems from AD organizational units, member servers, text files and other sources.
- The freeware version is now available for up to 50 managed accounts.
- Performance and stability improvements and bug fixes.
- On installation, when the system checks if all required software components have been installed, it now detects if .NET 3.5 framework is missing.
- The following issue has been fixed: When an account's Display-Name does not contain the SAM-Account-Name, the following error is returned: User Not Found.
NetWrix Password Expiration Notifier:
- Option to send password expiration notifications via text messages (SMS).
- Support for SMTP authentication (including SMTP SSL).
- Option to include images in password expiration notifications.
- Improved support for Windows Server 2008 Fine-Grained Password Policies
- Bug fixes and misc. minor improvements.
NetWrix Password Manager:
- User interface localization is now available in ten languages: in this version we have added German, French, Russian and Hebrew. More languages can be added manually or ordered from NetWrix for an additional fee.
- If users do not want their passwords to expire after a certain period, they can now specify this on password reset (this option can be disabled by the administrator).
- Administrators can prohibit users to create custom verification questions on the Self-Service portal.
- Administrators can now assign predefined verification questions to a single managed domain, as opposed to the whole product installation in previous versions.
- The customizable 'Support' field in the Administrative portal - Settings - Customer Branding ('Support phone' in previous versions) can now also contain an html code, which enables the use of content and image links.
- The new Batch Enrollment feature available from the Administrative Portal enables administrators to import the existing users' profile information and verification data. Users then do not have to go through the initial enrollment procedure.
- Users can now handle their Google Apps accounts with the Password Manager with the same ease and convenience as their domain accounts.
- User Enrollment Report performance has been enhanced: it is now faster and supports an unlimited number of users.
- The HelpDesk portal performance has been improved to support domains with a large number of users.
NetWrix SharePoint Change Reporter:
- Support for distributed network environments via optional remote data collection. Now it's not necessary to install the product on the same server where SharePoint server is installed.
- Ability to compress the data being transferred over the network.
- Many major bug fixes and stability updates.
NetWrix SQL Server Change Reporter:
- Auditing of database backup and restore operations.
- Auditing of changes made to database functions.
- Misc bug fixes and stability updates.
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