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EMCO UnLock IT 2.0.0 is available

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:23:00 GMT

Improved UI

User interface was updated to include latest UI features, available in other EMCO products. In particular, a set of improvements include: updated icons and main style, menus and Ribbon bars.

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 support

Starting from this version the application becomes compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Now it can work on these platforms to unlock locked resources. Also application can integrate with Windows Explorer on these platforms to provide context menu action for resources unlocking.

New UI skins

Application comes with an extended set of UI skins. You can customize UI look by selecting one of strict or funny skin though a Skin Chooser.

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Integration with Windows Explorer context menu does not work on Windows Vista and higher
Invalid detection of process owner and owner SID to be shown in process details

Learn more: EMCO UnLock IT

EMCO Remote Shutdown 4.0.2 is available

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:12:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Improved integration with the System Tray to provide an access to more application management options
Improved logging to store information about problems happened on application start up

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Potential problems during window layout loading process
Minimize on start up feature does not work in some environments
Application cannot be minimized after a period of time
System Tray icon cannot be created in some environments

Learn more: EMCO Remote Shutdown

EMCO Ping Monitor 4.0.0 is available

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:28:00 GMT

Multiple hosts monitoring

Now the application can track connection to multiple hosts simultaneously. Connection to every host is checked independently, so a total number of configured monitored hosts has no direct influence on the monitoring quality.

Free and Professional editions

Starting from this version, the application is available as a Free and Professional editions. The Free edition is a freeware that can be used for monitoring of up to 5 hosts simultaneously. The Professional edition can be used for monitoring of unlimited number of hosts simultaneously and requires a commercial license. Application editions have other differences, explained in the Feature List.

Switchable Data Views

Monitoring information for hosts can be represented in different modes. According to your personal preferences and a current task, you switch between table view presentation and one of card view presentation modes.

Extended monitoring information

In addition to number of outages and percent of passed pings and uptime now application provides an additional live statistics that allows to measure connection quality. It includes extended ping statistics: minimal, maximal, average ping response time and response time of the last ping. And also it provides information about shortest and longest outage time.

Learn more: EMCO Ping Monitor

EMCO MSI Package Builder 4.3.0 is available

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:21:00 GMT

Improved Live Monitoring

Live Monitoring technology, used for repackaging of existing installations, was improved for correct handling of short paths to resources and better support of Windows 7. Improved monitoring engine can operate under both x86 and x64 platforms to make a repackaging of large and complex installations.

Default registry value editing

Functionality of registry editor was extended to include an advanced editing of default values for registry keys. Default key values now can be represented as values of different types and can be specified or changed using registry values editor.

References to system folders

A good practice of MSI project creation requires transforming absolute paths in registry values into paths containing system folders. It allows building platform-independent MSI packages, which can be successfully installed on PCs with different OS and configurations. Starting from this version format of references to system folders was changed. It became more unique now to prevent accidental coincidences with plain data stored in registry. This improvement is targeted to resolve frequent issues with automatic installations repackaging.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Improved monitoring filters for Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Incorrect behavior of roll/unroll system folders operation for registry values
Incorrect monitoring of changes, applied to default value of a registry key
Possible errors while working with environment variables
Various errors during an MSI package decompilation
Impossible to create a shortcut as a child of WindowsVolume

Learn more: EMCO MSI Package Builder

EMCO Network Inventory 5.6.0 is available

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:38:00 GMT

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 support

Starting from this version the application is fully compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. It can work under these platforms to collect inventory information from remote PCs. Also application now can get inventory information from PCs running Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2.

Customizable report header

Customization options for integrated inventory report were extended to include company, author or any other information in a report header. Now any report page can include properties, defined on the Preferences dialog. And, of course, customizable header can be configured to be shown or hidden on a report, depending of your needs.

Data export and report for custom scan operations

Custom scan operations are very helpful when you need to find specific file system or registry entries on remote PCs. They used to detect unlicensed content (MP3 files, for example) across the network and other similar cases often. If scan operations detects a lot of entries, it's hard to process them using on-screen data viewer. But now you can export scan results into a various formats or generate an integrated report to process outside the application.

Improved inventory report

Integrated inventory report was reworked to optimize the report size. All unnecessary page breaks were removed. It helped to significantly reduce a wasted space.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Improved inventory of memory banks to include information about both filled and empty banks and also information about bank capacity and installed memory.
Simplified notes creation process for selected PC
Improved data entering and modification on the Edit dialog
Improved log messages format and diagnostics
Improved integrated Help

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Wrong list of machines in Application Count report
Incorrect processing of case-sensitive domain names
Possible Access Violation on the Edit dialog
Report generation failure for selected range of IP addresses
Problem with opening of Management Tools views
Incorrect processing of masks, defined for application names
Wrong extracting of environment variables from Windows Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7

Learn more: EMCO Network Inventory

EMCO Remote Shutdown 4.0.1 is available

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:27:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Improved error diagnostics in network scan operations

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Access violation during scan of Active Directory with hierarchical structure of domains

Learn more: EMCO Remote Shutdown

EMCO Remote Desktop 4.3.0 is available

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:38:00 GMT

Compatibility with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2

This version provides a full compatibility with latest Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 operating systems. It means that you can run Remote Desktop under Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 as well as connect to remote hosts working on these platforms.

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Extraction of wrong MAC address from remote PCs
Performance Monitor failure on connection to Windows Vista and Windows 2008

Learn more: EMCO Remote Desktop

EMCO MSI Package Builder 4.2.0 is available

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:18:00 GMT

Windows 7 support

Starting from this version the application is compatible with Windows 7. It means that you can run the application under Windows 7 to create MSI packages.

MSI package validation

Starting from this version every generated MSI package is automatically validated to detect problems with the included resources. In case of problem detection you can find detailed information on the Log tab.

Improved Project Wizard

The Project Wizard was reworked to simplify main application workflows. Wizard options were regrouped, action descriptions and icons were updated to make wizard more intuitive. Also some minor visual changes were made in other parts of the application.

Simplified monitoring workflow

In previous versions monitoring process, activated from the Project Wizard, was completed automatically, by default, at the termination of monitored executable. This approach doesn't allow capturing of complex installations that launch few installation processes. To eliminate this limitation monitoring workflow in the Project Wizard was changed. Now, by default, you can manage capturing directly and proceed to MSI package generation if you sure that monitored activity is complete.

MSI package icon

Now you can configure a custom icon for generated MSI package. You can specify an icon during MSI package generation on the Project Wizard.

Updated filters

In previous versions filters was one of important, but rarely used features. To make the purpose of two different types of filters clearer, they were renamed to Monitoring and Uninstall filters. Also you can find detailed information about filters and their use cases on the configuration dialog.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added ability to delete installation projects directly from the Open Project dialog.
Improved integrated help to provide detailed description of the interface elements and more real-life examples.
An ICE (Internal Consistency Evaluator) is used to validate the generated MSI package to identify the errors in the packages being created during the generation process itself.

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

MSI generation error in case of special symbols appearing in the registry data
Errors on using registry import operations
Incorrect work of Roll and Unroll System Folders operations in some cases
Incorrect work of Copy and Paste operation with registry data
Wrong enabling and disabling of some action buttons
Incorrect dialogs display under Windows 7
Possible incorrect monitoring of registry changes
Problems with monitoring of the installations with auto-registering libraries
MSI generation problem after monitoring the installations that use different languages

Learn more: EMCO MSI Package Builder

EMCO OS License Modifier 2.3.5 is available

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:10:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Increased Active Directory scan speed and reliability
Introduced validation for renaming items within the Network Browser and Custom Grouping

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Compatibility issues with .NET Framework 2.0

Learn more: EMCO OS License Modifier

EMCO MoveOnBoot 2.1.6 is available

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:05:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added support of relative path definition symbols for file system paths
Introduced validation for a new name while renaming

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Compatibility issues with .NET Framework 2.0

Learn more: EMCO MoveOnBoot