What is New in SpaceObServer Web Access?

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• In the 'Users' tab, the entire view including the directory tree can now be filtered by user. All views then only show the values and elements of the respective user.

• Scans can now also be exported as a directory tree, whereby the export can be limited to a specific directory depth or directory size. Excel, PDF, CSV and text are available as export formats. The corresponding buttons can be found at the top right.

• Display names stored in SpaceObServer are now also used in Web Access.

• An error that occurred when exporting the data in the "History" diagram to a text or CSV file has been fixed.

• An error could occur when using the filter function in the Extensions and Duplicates tab. The problem has been fixed.

• A problem in the data export of the "Details" tab has been fixed.

• SpaceObServer Web Access no longer started under certain circumstances. This problem has been fixed.

• Numerous other minor improvements and bug fixes have been incorporated.

06/25/2025

• An error with the data shown in the "History" chart has been fixed.

11/24/2022

• The scan results of SharePoint scan targets were not available for selection in SpaceObServer Web Access. This problem was fixed.
• When FIPS compliance was enabled, an error message appeared in the 'Charts' tab. This error has been fixed.
• In the directory tree, expanding a directory over multiple levels caused a JavaScript error. This error has been fixed.

01/18/2022

New features

• Single Sign On (SSO): The application now supports logon via the integrated Windows authentication. This authentication offers the advantage that logged in Windows users do not have to explicitly log in to SpaceObServer Web Access with their user account again.
• In the tab 'File Types' file types can now be filtered via the context menu. The filtered file types are displayed in the detail view.

Improvements

• In the setup dialog for selecting administrator roles, the search field required the full account name of a group or user from Active Directory. The search can now handle partial entries and displays multiple results.
• The search field in the role system required the full account name of a group or user from Active Directory. The search can now handle partial entries and displays multiple results.

Bugfixes

• In the Administrator backend, the process for deleting a registered user caused an error. This has been fixed now.
• The directory tree can now display the changed number of files. To do this, the 'Show size changes in tree' and 'Show number of files in folders' buttons must be enabled. In addition, the directory tree can now display the percentage change.

Compatibilities

• Windows 7 is now no longer supported.
• Web Access now requires at least .NET 4.8.

11/10/2021

New features

• The date and time format displayed in tables and charts can now be customized in analogy to SpaceObServer.
• The context menu in the directory tree can now be used to copy the directory path of a tree item to the clipboard.

Improvements

• Error reports labeled 'OleServiceException' and 'CurrentUserExpiredException' no longer appear in the logs.

Bugfixes

• The scan status for underlying scans was not indicated correctly in the Overview panel for containers in the directory tree. This has been fixed.If a value is ("not available") in a table field, the value is now indicated in neutral rather than red script.
• If a value is ("not available") in a table field, the value is now indicated in neutral rather than red script.
• When sorting a table column, the sorting got lost during the switch between directories and folders in the tree and in the selection of a size unit. This has been fixed. Loading data from a sorted column can now be canceled.
• In the 'File types' table, the filter function for groups malfunctioned. This problem has been fixed.
• When using the filter in the 'File types' tab, an error message appeared in the browser console. This error has been fixed.
• Exported files did not contain sub-items in the "Duplicates" tab. This issue has been fixed.
• If the first column in the 'File types' table was not 'Name', the filter function did not work as was expected. This bug has been fixed.
• The loading time for filtering file extensions by groups was significantly reduced.
• Minor bug fixes.

Changes

• Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be supported in the future.

02/04/2021

New Features

• The overview window now shows the live status of scans. For update scans, the current scan progress is displayed.
• Duplicates can now be filtered out of the list by size. See the knowledge base entry.
• Users can now use the button 'Clear Caches' to reset user-specific settings to default settings.

Improvements

• The user interface has been extensively revised.
• In the tab 'Details' the loading of data has been accelerated considerably.
• In tables and in the directory tree, double-clicking now triggers the expansion of elements.
• In the table 'Details' it is now possible to navigate through the folder levels by double-clicking and pressing a button.
• In the administrator area in the list of roles the members are now loaded and displayed.
• In the Windows Start Menu there is now an entry for changing the installation key.
• If a new installation key has been entered, it is immediately valid. The application pool no longer needs to be restarted.
• The structure of tables and charts appears much more smooth. This is particularly noticeable when changing the window size.
• In the tables 'Extensions' and 'Duplicates', the expanded rows are separated from the rows below by color.
• If an activated table column causes long loading times, the user will be informed and has the possibility to deactivate the affected columns.
• Minor improvements in the user navigation.

Bug Fixes

• Similar to SpaceObServer the overview window now not only shows the data of a container but also the data of the scans directly below it.
• In the administrator area in the tab 'Licenses' the date was displayed incorrectly under certain circumstances. This has been fixed.
• When activating and deactivating the filter in the table 'Extensions' a server error could occur. This error is fixed now.

03/12/2020

Compatibility:

• Web Access now requires at least .NET 4.7.2.

Features:

• Scans can now be started via the context menu. To do this, the logged-in user must have the appropriate authorizations. The role system handles the authorization to start scans.
• In the directory tree, bars now show the ratio of the values of files and folders to the root element.
• In the setup you can now choose the https protocol.

Improvements:

• The directory tree now has a button for opening the context menu.
• The appearance of some GUI windows has been unified.
• If authorizations of roles are changed in the administrator backend, these are effective after the main application has been updated (F5 key). A new login is no longer necessary.
• If the directory tree is sorted by size or name then the tables will be sorted accordingly.
• The load times of some steps in the setup have been improved.
• Changes to the web page settings via the IIS Manager are now displayed correctly in the installation dialog.
• JavaScript errors are now logged and can be sent to the developer as an error report.
• Minor improvements in the application and online help.

Changes:

• The application runs now with the application pool user rights. During the update or a new installation, the setup sets appropriate system and folder permissions. This makes it easier to set up Windows authentication with the SQL database.
• The trouble-shoot document has been transferred from the online help to the knowledge base and translated into German. This facilitates finding instructions for known errors.
• The indication when a scan last ran is now displayed in the overview panel.

Bug Fixes:

• In the 'Distribution' tab, the graph did not always take up all available space. This has been fixed.
• The scans are sorted alphabetically in the drop-down list now.
• Sometimes the last scan time was incorrectly specified for a scan. This has been fixed.
• In the details the column 'Annotation' could not be sorted. This has been fixed.
• Minor bug fixes.

09/30/2019

Compatibility:

• The Web Access is compatible with Windows Server 2019.

Features:

• Analogous to SpaceObServer the Web Access has now an Overview Panel. The Overview Panel shows details of a selected Scan.
• In the table ‘Details’ a context menu can be opened via right-click which provides an option to add a note to a folder or file. You can add notes to multiple entries by selecting multiple rows. These notes are visible both in Web Access and SpaceObServer in the column ‘Note’.
• In the directory tree containers can now be marked via checkboxes.

Improvements:

• Some internal adjustments have reduced the load times of the SpaceObServer Web Access in many areas. The usability and reactivity was noticeably increased.
• The selection of units and size units for the directory tree now loads much smoother.
• The selection of options in the charts, history and distribution now loads much smoother.
• Debug logs can now be sent, downloaded and deleted via the administrator backend.
• Login with a user of the "Restricted" role could possibly lead to a long delay at the beginning of the session. This issue has been resolved.
• If the Web Access is installed as an application and the name of the application was created before the installation, then you can now use the created name.
• After completing the setup, the user can now start Web Access directly in the browser.
• The scroll bar in tables is now clickable to move the displayed selection quickly.
• Some minor improvements and bugfixes have been incorporated.

Changes:

• The column "Allocated" has been added to the table "Top 100 Files" and shows the used space of each file. The columns "Folder Path", "Absolute Path", and "Allocated" have been added to the table "Duplicate Files". The "Files" column has been removed.
• The file "readme.txt" has been deleted. The information from the file is now displayed directly in the appropriate places.

Bug fix:

• If the ACL had been used for a container then an 'Access Violation' exception occurred while loading into the directory tree. This has been fixed.
• In tables with many datasets the time was displayed incorrectly in the progress dialog when sorting a column. This has been fixed.
• If the Web Access had been installed in the IIS configuration as an application, then layout problems were encountered. This has been fixed.
• Some minor bug fixes have been incorporated into the new version.

06/26/2019

Compatibility:

• Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer version 9 and 10 has been dropped.
• Support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has been dropped.

Features:

• The web interface is now available in German. On the login page there is a radio button to switch between English and German.
• In the tab 'Charts' a new button has been added. This button provides options to show certain elements in the treemap.

Bug Fixes:

• During an update or reinstallation an error appeared in the Event Viewer under certain circumstances. This error is fixed now.
• In the Google Chrome browser, the "Save" button for exporting tables or charts sometimes did not respond. The bug is fixed now and the button reacts as expected.
• When searching for a user in a domain, an exception error occurred if the domain of the machine and the target domain did not have a trust. A suitable notification is displayed now.
• If a user from another domain logged in to Web Access, under some circumstances an exception error occurred and logon failed. This has been fixed.
• Some minor improvements and bug fixes have been incorporated into the new version.

07/10/2018

New Bitness:

• The Web Access changes to 64 bit. A 32 bit version is no longer available.

Permissions:

• Web Access now provides a role system. The role system configuration is located in the administrator backend. A role connects multiple Windows accounts or groups with permissions. The Web Access supports nested groups. A user can only log into Web Access when he belongs to a role, either through a connected Windows group or directly through his user account. When a user belongs to multiple roles, then all activated permissions of all belonging roles will be additively combined. Three recommended roles are available as presets. It is possible to add, edit, delete and clone roles. The setup provides an input mask to add users to the administrator role.
• Web Access caches the group membership of a logged in user for 15 minutes. When the group membership is changed in the Active Directory, then Web Access applies the changes after 15 minutes. In the administrator backend, in the tab 'Information', there is a button to delete the cache and force a reload. After that, Web Access refreshes the cached groups from the Active Directory, during login.
• When SpaceObServer scans with an activated ACL (Access Control List) and Web Access has enabled the respective option, the displayed data is filtered by the ACL. An ACL-filtered Scan has a blue filter icon as indicator in the folder tree.
• The setup dialog for the configuration of the admin role now shows a warning when the currently logged-in user is not a member of the administrator role.
• In the administrator backend, the tab 'Users' has been renamed into 'Licenses'. The controls to register users or set filters to users are no longer available in this tab. The role system is now responsible for these purposes. The tab 'Licenses' now only summarizes all information about used licenses.

New Export Functions:

• It is now possible to export the data in tables in CSV, Excel, TXT, or PDF format.
• It is now possible to export the images in the tabs 'Charts', 'History' and 'Distributions' in PNG, JPEG, Bitmap, and GIF format.

Tables:

• In the tabs 'Extensions', 'Users' and 'Top100' a dropdown menu provides checkboxes to hide/show columns, these settings are persisted across sessions.
• The dropdown for tables now provides the horizontal order of columns, these settings are persisted across sessions.
• In the tabs 'Extensions', 'Users', and 'Top100' the tables show the data noticeably faster.
• Tables now load only data from the server for fields visible in the window, therefore tables with many datasets display the first results much faster.
• In the tab 'Extensions', the data in groups is only loaded from the server when users expand groups (Lazy Load). This reduces the initial loading time of the table.
• If users select rows in tables and switch between the tabs, the rows remain selected.

Charts:

• The history provides new additional information: 'Size', 'Allocated', and 'Average'.
• The tab 'Charts' provides the 'Tree Map' now.
• The tab 'History' provides a button to enable/disable a grid now.
• When users switch between the tabs 'Charts' and 'History' the client does not reload the images from the server again, showing the images from the cache instead.

Changed Compatibilities:

• Web Access requires an installed SpaceObServer with at least version V6.x, which was released on 11th of November, 2017.

Bug Fix:

• In the tab 'Details' the columns 'Last Modified' and 'Last Accessed' sometimes displayed the data with a noticeable delay.
• Switching between the tabs 'Extensions', 'Users', 'Top100' and 'Duplicate Files' sometimes resulted in long waiting times, because server side processes blocked each other.
• In the tables sometimes negative values were colored green. All negative values are red now.
• The sorting of some table columns with decimal places was wrong.
• When users switched the selection of folders in the folder tree between two scans, the 'History' sometimes displayed no data.
• When SpaceObServer made an update scan, the tab 'Extensions' didn´t show the updated data in the entire session. A re-login was required. The table now shows the updated data after pressing the F5 button.
• In the tab 'Charts' sometimes the identifier of the x-axis was missing.

Miscellaneous:

• The icons and the appearance have been adapted analogously to SpaceObServer.
• There a two new items added to the Windows Start Menu: "Configure Administrator Role" and "Configure Database".
• Some minor improvements and bugfixes have been incorporated.

02/27/2018

• The loading time after entering the user credentials has been reduced significantly.
• The Windows Authentification for the database connection could interfere with the user access of the scans. This is no longer the case.
• In specific cases the status of an checkbox of root directories was not inherited from its subfolders. This error has been fixed.
• Some other minor improvements and revisions have been incorporated into the user interface and the setup.

11/23/2015

Frontend:

• The startup time of the SpaceObServer Web Access has been increased remarkably, especially when working with many scans. Root directories will be loaded faster at startup. The progress is displayed in a progress bar.
• The loading time required when expanding folders in the directory tree has been reduced.
• All pie, bar and line charts have been redesigned to match SpaceObServer V5.3
• New login mask: The forms authentication has replaced the old authentication method. Users are able to logout without closing the browser and the logout in the Internet Explorer now works.
• Users are now able to create a link referring to the selected folder and tab via the context menu.
• The state of a scan ("scanned", "not scanned yet" etc.) is now shown in the combo box on top left.
• Improved the display of errors which occur on synchronous and asynchronous requests.
• The tab 'History' now provides the option 'Interpolation'.
• Optimized the performance of the surface using native JavaScript. This is noticeable in the directory tree.
• Fixed a timeout that occurred when many datasets of tables were loaded. The contents of tables will be partially loaded from the server now.
• Bugfix: The setup did not accept versions of the .NET Framework v4.5 and higher. This problem mainly occurred on Windows 10.
• Bugfix: Occasionally some root directories were not listed in the combo box. This is no longer the case.
• Bugfix: When sorting a list the sorting order was wrong for some columns. This has been fixed. Sorted columns will now be memorized when switching between tabs or changing metrics.
• Bugfix: The search function now works for all lists.
• When a column is added to the "Details" list, the new column is marked and scrolled into the visual range.
• Bugfix: The number of rows in some lists did not match with number of items in the common SpaceObServer user interface. This is no longer the case.
• Bugfix: A server error occurred when selecting a "[Files]" node in the directory tree and pressing F5. This has been fixed.
• Bugfix: Several URLs were not resolved correctly if the software was installed as 'Application' in the IIS. This is no longer the case.

Administrator Backend:

• Improved the layout of the administrator backend. Implemented tabs for a better overview.
• A user can be deleted from the registration once he has been removed from the Active Directory.
• If the filter 'Show user data only' is enabled for a user, a warning is shown in the folder tree.
• Bugfix: When trying to access the admin backend an error code 1301 and principal exception was shown. This is no longer the case.
• Error reports can now be copied to the clipboard.
• Bugfix: A user that exist in a different domain than the machine, where the Web Access is installed, he could not be registered in the past.
• The section 'Register a User' has been improved. A user can now be found in the Active Directory by searching for his account name.

Setup:

• In the setup the dialog of the check for required Windows features has been improved.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug that occurred during the installation of SpaceObServer Web Acces when setting up the group that has access to the administrator backend.

Miscellaneous:

• Updated the frameworks ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and Knockout.js.
• The demo version now allows 5 users to test the software and expires after 30 days.
• Improved the general usability.
• Many minor fixes and improvements have been incorporated.

10/26/2015

• Files are now listed correctly on the 'Details' tab.
• After the installation, the first registered user is granted the 'Show All Data' permission automatically.
• Accessing the administrator backend resulted in an error under certain circumstances. This has been fixed.
• Directly accessing the administrator backend via the URL could result in an error message. This has been fixed.
• Some other minor improvements and corrections have been incorporated into the setup, the software, and the online help.

03/24/2015

• The delay at the start of the software has been shortened.
• The administrator is now able to register users end set permissions to each user separately in the administrator backend.
• Size changes are now highlighted in a different color in the tree.
• The application main page and administrator backend can be started from the start menu now.
• Columns in tables are now resizable.
• Adding columns to tables works faster now.
• A debug mode is now available: The application records operations into a log file. The debug mode can be enabled in the administrator backend.
• The setup now checks if necessary Windows features are already installed. If not, the user can enable the missing features and see a short description.
• If loading failed when expanding a folder in the file tree, the load operation never stopped. Aborted loading tasks are now marked and can be restarted.
• The user interface only renders 100 rows in tables. Additional rows can be added manually. This restriction prevents the interface from freezing.
• Adding an expensive column in the 'Details' table could sometimes result in an timeout. The entire loading process stopped and an dialog came up. Now the failing fields will be marked and the loading process continues.
• The root directories are now loaded after the page becomes visible.
• In the tab 'Details', the selection of columns will not cause the list to scroll any more. This behavior occurred in the Internet Explorer.
• The search field on tables does not search on each keypress any more, since it slowed the search down. The newly added 'okay' button starts the search.
• When no history of a scan exist, a hint will be displayed for the user.
• The Installshield installer has been replaced by Windows Installer XML (WIX).
• Bugfix: The left pane was not resizeable in some IE8 browser versions. This problem has been fixed.
• Bugfix: Clicking a tree item in a container selected an item outside of the container. This problem has been fixed.
• Several minor fixes and improvements have been incorporated.

02/23/2015

• The delay at the start of the software was shortened.
• Errors will be logged now and can be sent to the SpaceObServer-support via the administrator backend.
• The button 'Group similar file types in one group' keeps state after page reload.
• Bugfix: In the "Details", an error appeared when adding columns.
• In the "History" the button 'Show Total Disk Space' is disabled by default now.
• Several minor fixes and improvements have been incorporated.

08/20/2014