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Version 8.1

New functions

  • The new "Permission changes" tab provides information about changes that have been made to the access permissions of the selected file system tree. This allows recently made changes to NTFS permissions to be checked and compliance with compliance rules to be ensured. Note: The option to save permissions (ACLs) must be activated in the "Scan settings" in order to create this report.

  • Azure Blob Storages can now be monitored with SpaceObServer, as was already possible with Amazon S3 Blob Storages.

  • For SharePoint scan targets, the space occupied by file versions can now optionally be included when determining the occupied space of a file. To do this, activate the new checkbox "Include SharePoint file versions when calculating the 'Used space' value" in the "Scan options" section of the "Scan settings".

Improvements

  • The automatic installer for MS SQL Server Express, which is integrated in SpaceObServer, now installs the 2019 version of MS SQL Server.

  • Support for the outdated Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 operating systems has been discontinued.

  • SpaceObServer now officially supports MS SQL Server 2022 as a backend database.

  • The dialog for creating and revising automatic reports has been improved and elements rearranged to make it more intuitive to use.

  • The deletion of old scan data is now only executed when the scan service has no other tasks to perform, so that scans are not slowed down.

  • The "Similar folders" statistic has been renamed "Duplicate folders". We have also slightly adjusted the arrangement of the statistics on the right-hand side of the SpaceObServer user interface and optimized the display of the tabs.

  • The export of "Duplicate files" has been accelerated by new database indexes.

  • In the scan list at the bottom left of the main window, the columns "Growth" and "% Growth" have been changed to "Growth last scan" and "% Growth last scan" and now show the growth between the last and the current scan. Furthermore, the column "Growth last month" has been renamed "Growth last 30 days", as this better describes the content of the displayed values. The calculation of these growth values is now done in advance so that they are now displayed immediately.

Bugfixes

  • The automatic e-mail dispatch with generated export files in the attachment has been improved so that the exports are now included in the generated e-mail as real attachments as expected.

  • An error with the "Show older scan sizes" function has been fixed.

  • Fixed an issue where adding a new scan to a container would display an empty history chart.

  • Fixed an issue that caused error messages in the "Duplicate files" list of containers.

  • A problem where errors occurred when using MySQL during the calculation of similar folders has been fixed.

  • A post-scan action with long paths and many options was saved incorrectly under certain circumstances. This problem has been fixed.

  • Many other minor improvements and bug fixes have been made.

03/19/2024