General Improvements
Improved User Interface: More user friendly with less dialog boxes, less buttons. Better organization and easier access to Goverlan features and external tools.
Added Support for Terminal Services and Citrix Users: With Goverlan v7, you can support the console user of a machine and users connected remotely to a Microsoft® Terminal Services server or a Citrix® XenServer.
Minimal Firewall Configuration: The number of communication ports used by the Goverlan Agents has been reduced from 3 to 1 for easy and minimal firewall configuration. See: Modifying the Communication Port.
Improved Version Updates for Agents: The process for updating Goverlan Agents has been redesigned to reduce the agents' update requirements and to provide better backward compatibility.
Goverlan Workgroup Mode: Share Goverlan objects with your colleagues. Goverlan v7 allows you to share Custom Controls, Custom Actions, Scope Action Templates, Batch & Script Packages and Installation Packages. See: Sharing Objects within a Workgroup.
Active Directory Container Filters: If your active directory containers include large numbers of objects but you only deal with a sub-set of them, you can now use a Container Filter to exclude un-needed objects. See: Filtering_a_Container.
New Administration & Diagnostic Features
Windows Automatic Updates Manager: Manage your machines' Windows Automatic Updates remotely. See: Windows Automatic Updates.
Device Manager: View and manage the hardware devices on your machines remotely. See: Device Manager.
Revamped System Information Window: The new System Information Window displays an overview of the remote machine's OS & hardware information and provides easy access to many management features. See: System Information.
Detailed Hardware Information: View a machine's detailed hardware information, including memory slots information, system slots information, connected devices and monitors information. See: Detailed_Hardware_Information.
Run Batch & Script: Easily dispatch the execution of your local batch and scripts onto your machines and receive a consolidated report of console outputs. See: Batch and Script.
Modify Network Settings Remotely: Goverlan v7 allows you to remotely change the network settings of your machines, including the IP settings. You can also rename your machines, join or un-join them to a domain or workgroup. See: Modifying_Network_Settings.
Remote Command: Goverlan v7 includes a powerful Remote Command Console which allows you to quickly execute pre-configured commands. See: Remote Console.
Improved Software Manager: Goverlan v7 supports the distribution of both MSI and EXE packages. You can also pre-configure installation packages and share them with your co-workers. See: Software Products.
Improved Printer Management: Goverlan v7 allows you to manage per-machine printer connections in addition to standard per-user printer connections and local printer queues. See: Printers Information.
Improved Task Manager:
Added disk activity monitoring.
Added Top 5 processes monitoring for CPU usage, memory consumption, disk IO and page faults.
View process CPU, memory and disk activity history.
Disable Startup Programs.
See: Task Manager.
Improved Send Popup Message: The Send Popup Message feature allows you to save message templates. See: Sending Messages.
Goverlan Scope Actions
New Run Modes
Once a scope action has been executed, you can later choose to:
Re-run the scope action and merge the output data. If some machines couldn't be queried and a scope action is re-run, Goverlan updates the output report with the latest data while keeping your historical data untouched.
Re-run on failed nodes only. This mode allows you to re-execute the scope action only on the nodes which failed during the last execution.
See: Executing a scope action.
Improved Scope Definitions
Scope definition has been taken to a new level by allowing dynamic sets. The container's dynamic content is compiled at execution time and not during the scope definition.
For machine scopes, the following dynamic sets are available:
Active Directory Containers
Active Directory Sites
IP Range
Object input file
See: Defining the Scope.
Scope and Action Module Shareable Templates
Creating a Scope Action has never been easier: Scope Action v7 allows you to create Scope templates and Action Module templates. Templates are subsequently available during the definition of a new Scope Action or Custom Action.
Additionally, templates can be shared with your co-workers (this feature requires the Application Shared Data Directory to be configured).
Registry and File System Objects can now be reported
Machine Registry Objects as well as File System Objects can now be queried and reported in a Scope Action. These objects can also be used in conditions. See: Example: Managing Registry Information on a set of machines.
Extended Active Directory Attributes
An Extended AD Properties category has been added. This category can be configured to include any of the available active directory attributes in your reports.
Dynamic Value Definition
Scope Action v7 has a powerful new feature called Dynamic Value Definition. Using this feature you can configure any Set or Execute input parameter to be dynamic and compiled during execution.
Dynamic input parameter can include values of other attributes, static text, Boolean operators and numerical operators.
See: Using_Dynamic_Values.
New Output Settings
The Scope Action v7 introduces new output settings:
Automatically convert the XML file to a report format of choice once execution is complete and open the report in the chosen format.
Run an external program (this feature includes substitution variables which can be used in the command parameters).
Close the Execution window.
See: Selecting Execution and Output Settings.
Other Improvements
Improved performance. It takes less time to open the properties of a scope action.
Improved Actions & Conditions definition UI. The selection menu now displays individual icons for each object. The objects are now sorted.
Improved Execution Log Analyzer.
The list of available WMI Objects can now be configured directly from Goverlan.
WMI Object Set and Execute methods now converts the raw WMI input parameters to friendly formats.
Improved HTML - Data Sheet report format.
Added 'Open with Microsoft Excel' output format.