Release Notes

vScope 3.30

3.30.7

November 4, 2024

Section separators

Elevate your dashboard with new widgets for organizing content into sections! vScope’s latest feature, Section Dividers, allows you to effortlessly group and categorize widgets by use case, priority, or asset type for a streamlined, intuitive view.

Learn more
Section Separators for a More Customized Dashboard Experience.

Open & Close & Created by

Gain better overview of the health of your IT environment. Status ‘OK’ has been removed, and instead all cases are now classified as either Open or Closed.

Understand when Tracker was updated

For increased data quality and transparency, vScope are now showing the timestamp of when the data was collected.

Filters in Library

We are consolidating the filter experience by adding filters in various views and tools of vScope. This time, you can use them in your vScope Library to faster find the content you are looking for.

New and updated content

We have updated the bundled content with new layouts for IT services and new tables within Compliance, Patch Management and Security. Be sure to check it out!

Learn all the details on this news post: New vScope Content Update

Improvements

New Relations between Assets: Resource Pools <-> Virtual Machine and Virtualization Hosts, Virtualization Host <-> Port Group. You can use the relations to eg. get tags from relationship in Tables.
Tracker Case insensitivity: Tracker computation “duplicate assets”, now includes an option for case sensitivity settings.
Improved update settings: Better control of your vScope Server Update settings under Settings > Miscellaneous > Software update settings.
Sorting in IT Services: You can now sort any column in the tables in IT Services.
Updated registry: vScope version is now also updated in registry for master and proxies.
Added text box: Replaced the simple text input with a text box for Table and Dashboard descriptions.
Updated Tracker Widgets: Widgets have been updated to reflect the overall changes in Tracker.
Distinguish Delete option: For improved UX, Delete option is now distinguished with different styling.
Improved Asset Discovery Customization: Veeam and WMI settings for asset discovery have been much(!) easier to understand.
Updated OID: Improved asset classification with more OIDs for Aruba Access Points.
Date Pickers for Manual Assets: Use date-pickers when adding manual assets in IT Services.
Various UI/UX improvements: Eg. button titles, coloring, hover bugs, standardizations…

Bug Fixes

Azure 1970 bug: Dates from Azure returned a different format than expected, causing 2024-dates to be shown as 1970. Now fixed.
Wrong Last Activity: Users that had not logged into vScope, had “1970” as last activity on hover in Settings > User Management.
Fix for automatic removal of Tags from Discovery: Tags with out dated values were sometimes still shown.

3.30.6

October 23, 2024

Fix for syncing hardware info from Azure Intune.

3.30.5

October 16, 2024

Bug fixes

Fix for performance issues related to syncing sign-in events from Azure.

3.30.4

October 14, 2024

Shortcut to Cases that you follow

We are improving the Home Screen to make it the go-to place for general insights about your IT. In this update, we’ve added shortcuts to cases you follow, making it easier to keep track of deviations.

Filter Tracker cases more easily

Filters in Tracker Overview have been updated, and the state is now saved between various views, improving the overall user experience. We will add this behavior across all Overviews in the upcoming updates.

Custom Asset Inventory for PowerShell

More assets have been added to the inventory settings for PowerShell Discovery in vScope. This way you can select what you want to sync from the target machine.

Additional Tags from Discovery for Azure

Sync Hardware Information from Intune. The information will be available for eg. creating more Tags from Discovery.

Improvements

IIS, now in PowerShell: Use PowerShell to find IIS web servers on the target machine.
Edit Case Name and Severity: Name and Severity are now moved to the edit state of a case. You can also delete a case from this view, meaning that we’ve removed the Case settings view.
Highlighting notification settings in Tracker: You will now be informed if you have disabled tracker emails in your personal settings so you can be sure that you will be informed about the cases you follow.
Custom timeout for Desktop Central: You can now customize the default time-out setting for Desktop Central. Please get in touch with support@infrasightlabs.com to learn more.
Pagination in Tracker: Cases in Tracker Overview are now paginated for improved performance.
Toasts in Tracker: Added various feedback and confirmation toasts in Tracker.
Microsoft Graph API v6: FYI, vScope is now using the latest Microsoft Graph API, v6.

Bug Fixes

XLXS export Format: Fix for large dates in exported tables not being displayed when opening Microsoft Excel.
Group Price Item Filters: Fixed the issue of being unable to add filters to grouped price items. Keep in mind that these items also inherit filters from their associated price group.
Access Control in IT Services: Fixes for handling permission changes to users in IT Services.
Favorite content in Library: Fix for content not always showing after you’ve added it to favorite.
Performance & Data Quality: Various improvements for eg. syncing data from Azure.

3.30.3

September 23, 2024

Active Directory Subtree Management

You can now manage specific subtrees within your Active Directory integration. This allows you to include or exclude specific branches, such as selecting only active user accounts or excluding certain subsidiaries for more refined data collection.

Where to find: Discovery > Credential > LDAP > Advanced

Content

New tags for PowerShell

💫 You should try vScope’s PowerShell Connector: Learn more or Get in touch!

Please ensure that you are using PowerShell to inventory Windows. The information will not be available using WMI/WinRM.

TPM (Trusted Platform Module) Tags: Added tags for TPM Manufacturer ID, TPM Vendor, TPM Physical Presence, and TPM Spec Version.
Windows License Tags: New tags for Windows OS Activation Status and License Status to help identify unlicensed machine

Tables

Windows 11 Clients: Display all devices running Windows 11 across your network.
Windows 11 Hardware Compatibility Report: Lists Windows clients and related hardware requirements.

Tracker

Duplicate Product Administration Groups in Adobe Admin Console: Lists duplicate groups with identical names in the Adobe Admin Console, helping prevent conflicts and errors caused by redundant group entries.

Improvements

UI Update for IT Service Overview (Card View): The card view has been updated to provide more useful insights. For instance, you will now be better informed when an IT service is no longer detected using CustomSQL. We will further improve this view in the future.
Enhanced Table Views: Tables in eg. Library, now display descriptions as subtitles under the name/identifier, rather than in separate columns, improving readability.
Action Standardization: Primary and secondary actions have been standardized across the UI. Less frequently used actions, such as “Delete,” are now grouped under an “Actions” dropdown for cleaner interfaces.
Jamf Pro Authentication Update: Updated the Jamf Pro authentication process for improved security and reliability.
Library Enhancements: You can now view collection assignments for Tables and Dashboards directly within the Library, making it easier to manage and track data.
Email Template Overhaul: All email templates have been redesigned to align with our updated design guidelines, offering a more consistent experience.
New Filters for IT Service Settings: Added filters for Sections and Fields within IT Service > Settings, enhancing customization and ease of use.

Bug Fixes

Azure Billing Manager Data Removal: Due Billing Manager API having data quality issues, we have removed Billing Manager data from the Azure integration.
User Accounts and Running Services Relationship: Fixed an issue where the relationship between user accounts and running services was not displayed correctly.
Height-issue for targets in Discovery Manager: Fixed a bug where targets were not fully visible for assignment to a credential.
Character Mismatch Fix: Resolved character mismatches when scanning systems encoded in UTF-8 and ISO-LATIN-1.
UI and Spelling Fixes: Various minor user interface adjustments and spelling corrections across the platform.

3.30.2

September 12, 2024

Bugs & Improvements

New Bundled Table: Windows 11 Clients.
Fix for Tracker Cases not being linked from omnisearch.

3.30.1

September 10, 2024

Bugs & Improvements

Fix for Tracker emails not compatible with all email clients.
Fix for discovery of Jamf Pro Cloud failing.

3.30.0

September 2, 2024

What’s new

A new look for proactively assessing risks in your IT environment

In the latest update of vScope, we’ve introduced a fully redesigned version of vScope’s alerting tool, Tracker. This new design offers a much smoother user experience while aligning with vScope’s overall design language. With Tracker, you can easily explore and share insights about your IT environment to ensure compliance with policies and industry best practices. It’s easy, it’s fast, and it’s fun! Learn more about Tracker, or explore vScope’s Analysis & Compliance features.

Insight’s delivered straight to your inbox

vScope will now keep you updated on the cases you follow with improved email notifications. These emails have a fresh new design that aligns with vScope’s overall look and feel, making them clearer and easier to read.

Using PowerShell to connect to Windows Operating Systems: Storage

We’ve further enhanced vScope’s PowerShell integration with Windows operating systems. In addition to general information about the asset, eg. CPU, Name, Description etc., you can with the latest update inventory storage information from both servers and clients in your environment, such as disks, file systems, and file shares.

💡Important…
If you use Just Enough Administration to manage vScope’s read permissions, please ensure that your JEA profile is updated to match the inventory settings in vScope.

Learn more about your Azure cloud resource usage

Get a comprehensive view of how your app registrations are being used. You can view all your app registrations in a single table or, in the latest update, explore detailed activity in the properties for each registration.

Enhanced feedback on inventory settings

vScope now provides more relevant feedback based on your inventory settings, including requirements, warnings, and other important information. This enhancement makes it easier to manage vScope’s discovery of your IT environment.

Bugs & Improvements

Support for Exporting Single Price Lists: You can now export individual price lists directly from vScope.
Improved Data Quality for Inventory: Tag values that cannot be confirmed within five days are now considered outdated and will be removed from assets, ensuring more reliable data. Notice that we will roll out this improvement, meaning it will not be available to everyone imediatly.
Enhanced the handling of credentials when using a connectivity proxy.
Corrected an issue where manual tags containing true/false or numeric values could not be added correctly.
Resolved an issue that prevented opening tables containing manual assets from IT Services in Tables.
Enhanced options for managing inventory settings related to SCCM.
Emails have been updated to align with vScope’s overall design principles.
Multiple user interface enhancements for a smoother user experience.

vScope 3.29

3.29.8

June 17, 2024

What’s new

Export Price lists in Billing

We have added the possibility to export price lists in Billing. You can either export a single price list from the detail view…

…Or make a bulk export from the price list overview.

When exporting, choose between the current or all versions, and the price list is then downloaded as an XLSX file in a compressed file.

Identify your assets in Billing

We have added a secondary identifier for assets in Billing which is applied to the price items. This is useful when having i.e. user accounts with ambiguous name tags.

Sign-in events, Application Usage Data and better control over you Azure discovery

Now you can inventory sign-in events for your app registrations in Azure RM. Go to your Azure App Registrations table and add e.g.”Last sign in” or other relevant sign-in events.

We have updated the property page for user accounts and added application usage data. This will help you to get a quick overview of any user’s application usage.

We have moved the App registration toggle as a subordinate to the Azure AD toggle. We then added a few more toggles such as: Users, Groups, and License plans. This gives you full control of what you wish to inventory from your Azure AD.

Bugs & Improvements

Add multiple tag values in “Add Manual Tag Float”
Fetch “CPU Name” from Windows Operating System
Error when deleting tables and dashboarded deleted in Library fixed
Widget added to dashboard float
Minimized logging of failed custom probe attribute (SCCM)
Bug in Desktop Central probe fixed

3.29.6

May 27, 2024

Bugs & Improvements

Approve proxies before being used in Discovery
Allow user to edit value(s) in List field type in IT Services
Optimized stitched strategies
Updated dropdown for users in IT Services
Missing pagination support for MS Reports in Azure probe fixed
Improved discovery performance for Intune (apps for devices)
Bug in search field text in filter pane fixed
Bug in Jamf Cloud discovery main schedule fixed
Updated content

3.29.5

May 20, 2024

Bugs & Improvements

Jamf Cloud not included in main schedule runs fixed
Azure AD reports: Last Teams / Sharepoint / Onedrive / Mailbox Activity tags missing for user accounts fixed

3.29.4

May 6, 2024

What’s new

New authentication for Adobe

As the JWT credentials will no longer be supported after Jan 27, 2025 we have now added oAuth authentication to vScope.

Bugs & Improvements

Bulk import columns now supported

Email Billing Export now supported

Added data to the Windows probe

Added bulk functionality when editing a IT Services

3.29.3

April 15, 2024

What’s new

Property page for Organizational units added

Now, users have access to comprehensive details about organizational units through property cards. These cards offer insights into General Information, Configurations, Relationships, Users, and more,

Link from an IT service card to Tables

If you’re working in IT services and stumble upon a table you’re eager to delve deeper into, we’ve now included a direct link to access that specific table.

Bugs & Improvements

TLS v1.3 in Netty enabled
Description to the table in Tags Created from discovery & edit added
Creating and editing Credentials improved
Usability of match and range filter in Tables improved
Improved web security
Bug in the Oracle probe fixed
Bug in collaborators from dashboards to tables fixed

3.29.2

March 19, 2024

What’s new

Office 365 Application usage

Gain valuable insights into your team’s Office 365 application usage with our latest update. Newly added tags allow you to easily identify various activities in Office 365, such as the least recent user in Teams, the most recently added users in Exchange, or users with the highest storage usage in OneDrive.

Collaborators in IT Services

The ‘collaborators’ button has been moved from the secondary menu in IT Service Details to the header of the Service card. This change aims to improve user experience within IT Services, making navigation more seamless and intuitive.

Bugs & Improvements

The settings page in IT Service has got a UI update
Fixed date tag age computation in Tracker not always filtering correct
Various discovery bug fixes
Fixed a module assignment bug
New property page for Service Plan
Fixed weird scroll effect when Hovering on targets in CustomSQL and LDAP probes
Various UI/UX Improvements

3.29.1

February 5, 2024

What’s new

Custom Tag Collection from Azure RM

Enhance your cloud environment inventory in vScope by creating custom tags with values sourced directly from your Azure RM environment. This new feature allows you to tailor vScope’s inventory to include more data points relevant to your needs, enriching your cloud management capabilities.

Proper Bulk Actions

We’ve streamlined bulk operations throughout vScope, enhancing your ability to manage large volumes of data and content efficiently on key overview pages, including IT Service Overview, Library, and Billing.

Easier search in vScope Billing

Navigating through extensive billing details is now simpler. Our enhanced search functionality across all Billing sections allows you to swiftly filter and display only the information relevant to you, making it easier to manage and review your billing items.

Bugs & Improvements

Fix for related assets not updating when saving an IT Service.
Fix for not being able to push user settings to selected users and groups in User Management.
Fix for duplicate MAC addresses causing stitch issues for machines.
Fix for warning icons on IT services not always showing.
Various UI fixes to tables, settings, billing, and IT Services.

3.29.0

February 5, 2024

What’s new

Introducing PowerShell: Custom inventory of Registry Keys

With PowerShell, you can now enjoy a more flexible and customizable approach to documenting and reporting on your IT assets. Using PowerShell to discover your IT infrastructure will unlock additional features such as Just Enough Administration (see below).

The first step to a more flexible inventory is discovering custom keys from the Windows Registry. Try it out today!

Learn More

Enhanced Permission Management with Just Enough Administration (JEA)

JEA allows IT administrators to define and implement precise, role-based access control to their IT environments. By leveraging JEA within vScope, you can delegate sufficient permissions for vScope to read the exact data you want it to read on each server/client asset.

Get in touch to learn more

New interface for creating tags from discovery

We’ve updated the flow for creating a tag from discovery. This allows for a smoother experience when collecting custom values from your data sources, and adding them to tags in vScope.

How to create custom tags from discovery in vScope

Bugs & Improvements

You can now search in tables in Properties.
Fix for long dropdown headings being cut-off.
Fix for duplicate values in Asset Serial Number from Desktop Central.
Fix for not being able to delete notes from Properties.
Fix for not being able to add ‘False’ as tag value.
Fix for filters not being case insensitive when creating tags. If you want to use case sensitive filtering, please refer to hHow to use regular expressions in vScoperegular-expressions-in-vscope
Fix for not showing text area in IT services.
Fix for scroll issue when testing credential in Discovery Manager in Azure.
A few other fixes for consolidating the UI.

vScope 3.28

3.28.4

January 15, 2023

Bugs & Improvements

Added sorting in vScope Billing.
Various UI fixes and improvements.
Updated default columns when creating a new table for the asset type Databases.
Fix for table borders not showing in Firefox browsers.
Fix for not being able to write Time Since Last Logon (date range filters) in vScope Billing.
Fix for Credential/target test button sometimes becomes inactive after changes.
Fix for Profile page not being centered on the screen.
Double messages when no agreement exist on billing account in vScope Billing.
Fix for duplicate discoveries running for credentials using proxy.
Fix for bundling price items autofill quantity automatically and in a strange way.

3.28.3

December 18, 2023

Copy Price Items and Groups in vScope Billing

Easily duplicate price items and groups from one price list to another, saving time and reducing manual data entry. This way you can copy existing filters, bundles and/or price settings so you don’t have to re-do all the work.

👉 Where to find…
Go to the price list you want to add the price item/group to. Click Create Price Item > Copy from price list > Select Price list and Price item/Price group.

Select and Bulk Export in vScope Billing

You can now select and export multiple billing agreements simultaneously, streamlining your billing and reporting processes. Just select the rows and click “Export”. This will generate and download a .zip file containing the agreements you’ve selected.

Improved Data Quality for User Activity

Enhanced data quality for user activity tracking from Azure and Microsoft Entra ID, ensuring more accurate and reliable information.

👉 Where to find…
As an vScope administrator, go to Discovery > Credentials > Azure RM > Advanced

Important: Reading more log data from Azure will affect your discovery performance. If you have a very large Microsoft Entra ID environment, these settings might be for you…

Custom Tag Discovery for Microsoft Entra ID

Enhance your tagging capabilities with customized tag discovery options specific to Microsoft Entra ID. This allows you to extend vScope’s Azure Discovery with more tags and notations from Azure AD.

👉 Where to find…
As an vScope administrator or contributor, go to Tags > Tags from Discovery > Azure RM > and select your asset type.

Learn More

vScope Support: How to add Customized Discovery Tags

Custom Domain Rules for Matching Assets

Introducing the ability to create custom domain rules, allowing for more precise and tailored data stitching in your network.

Important: Please note that this is an advanced feature intended for selective use, as it can significantly impact data quality. We strongly advise consulting with our team prior to creating any custom matching rules.

👉 Where to find…
As a vScope administrator, go to Discovery > Suggestions > Custom and select the domains you want to consider as the same.

Improvements

MAC Address is now displayed in Properties for Printers.
Tag Filters are now shown in Tags > Tag settings.
Various UI standardizations and improvements.
Major performance improvements related to Azure discovery.

Bugs

Fix for not being able to save manual price items.
Fix for Jamf discovery with invalid credentials reports OK with empty results.

3.28.1

13 November, 2023

What’s New

Smart suggestions helping you during your workday

Popular Columns, based on our smart suggestion engine, have been added to Tables to help you sort among thousands of values about your assets. Popular Columns learns from your behaviour, and automatically improves its suggestions based on how

Where to find:

👉 Popular Columns are available to any user in Tables under + Columns.

Improved visibility of where assets have been found

Quickly understand the contributing data sources to an asset with the new “Found By” section on top of every Asset Properties.

Where to find:

👉 Data sources are now shown in Properties of any asset.

Explore IT Service relationships in Tables using Tags

Create custom tags and build tables about IT services that looks exactly they way you want. By Exploring and adding tags from relations to other assets, you can now show various values from related IT Services in the same table. This is very powerful if you want to more easily understand configurations and documentation about dependencies among different IT Services.

Where to find:

👉 As Administrators and Contributors in vScope, you can access this features by accessing Tables > Create Table > IT Services > Create Tag > Tag From Relationship > IT Service

Navigate to different tables from Ratio widgets

You can now navigate to different tables that are used as source for a ratio or comparison widget. Just click on the number you are interested in and you will navigate to the underlying table.

Where to find:

👉 Available to any Ratio and Comparison widget. Notice that you must have permission to view the underlying table for this to work.

Bugs & Improvements

Added links to guides for how to connect to data sources to vScope.
Fix for export settings, where dates were formatted in the output though using raw (no) formatting.
Fix for Azure Credential missing Inactive Devices toggle.
Fix for Tags from Discovery that sometimes did not not work from the latest release.
Fix for Veeam Backup scan sometimes aborting.
Fix for erroneous stitching of assets, mainly from VMM.
Various UI bug fixes in vScope Billing.
Various UI improvements, standardizing different views in vScope.

3.28.2, 4 December, 2023

What’s New

Create shortcuts to your favorite assets in Dashboards

Create custom widgets and shortcuts to various assets in vScope. This is perfect if you want to eg. document specific IT services in a dashboard for a specific customer or organizational unit. You can choose exactly the values you want to show in the shortcut which enables even more customizability, why not show configurations of a server, or user activity for a user account?

You can either create Shortcut widgets from scratch (In Edit Dashboard) or quickly add Properties to a Dashboard by selecting “Add to dashboard”

Where to find…

👉 You can quickly create shortcuts from Properties, or build them from scratch in Edit Dashboard > Create Widget > Shortcut Widget

New Asset Types: Azure API Management

In this release, we’ve integrated support for inventorying Azure API Management in vScope. Azure API Management is a comprehensive solution facilitating the creation, deployment, and management of APIs. With vScope, users can now gain a centralized view of critical asset types, including APIs, API Products, and Service Subscriptions within their Azure API Management environment.

Moreover, the added functionality allows mapping relationships to user accounts, providing a nuanced understanding of the API ecosystem. This heightened visibility empowers teams by making essential API management information accessible to a broader audience within the organization.

Learn more about Azure API Management

Bundled Content

To help you get started, we have created some bundled content for you:

Tables

Azure API Management User Accounts Documentation
User accounts and their access to various Azure APIs via subscriptions. Adjust and expand it as needed based on your specific use case and documentation requirements.

Azure API Products Documentation
Explore a detailed overview of API Products within Azure API Management, featuring essential information to streamline your understanding and utilization.

Azure APIs Documentation
Customize the information as needed to align with your specific use case and documentation requirements.

Tracker

Azure API Management: Changed Subscription Scope
Azure API Management: New Server Subscriptions Added

Where to find…

👉 To enable inventory of Azure API Management, go to Discovery > Credentials > Azure and enable “Azure API Management”. After the next discovery, you will be able to search for Azure API Management to find bundled content.

💡 Notice: You need to subscribe to vScope Cloud Module to access these new asset types.

Creation Date, Created By, Last Modified Date, Last Modified By, for IT Services

New Meta Data Fields for IT Services allows you to better understand when IT Services were updated, and changed and who made the change.

Where to find…

👉 These fields are available to any user in Tables > IT Services > + Columns.

Change the layout of IT Services

If you want to change the layout for an IT service, you can choose to copy the IT service and select a new layout for the copy.

💡 Notice: Only values in fields that exist in both layouts will be copied.

Where to find…

👉 Go to an IT Service > Copy.

Bugs & Improvements

Show username for the user account running a Job.
Updated links in Discovery: You can now find links to guides and FAQs when adding data sources.
Add more details about Permission Groups in the dropdown in Single Sign-On.
Fix for deleted group is still shown as a collaborator.
Fix for multi-input does not handle long values.
The last remaining column in the table cannot be removed but can be unchecked.
Search Icon is shown though it should not be shown in Share snapshot.
Hide non-static/non-configuration tags from Timeline in Properties. This means that vScope by default hides dates and values that change every day.
New Content: New slides on the Home Screen.
Display help text for the user to understand they could input multiple OIDs in an SNMP Credential.
Fix for format setting does not affect Date Tags
Explain to the user why groups are not found when using AD as a directory service.
Update Jetty to 10.0.18
Group mapping values are not reset when changing tabs in Directory integration.
Clearing reply-to address makes email sending fail.
Various usability updates in vScope Billing
- Add a search field in the dropdown when creating Price items.
- Show the number used by the billing account in the Price list header.

3.28.1, 13 November, 2023

What’s New

Smart suggestions helping you during your workday

Where to find:

👉 Popular Columns are available to any user in Tables under + Columns.

Improved visibility of where assets have been found

Quickly understand the contributing data sources to an asset with the new “Found By” section on top of every Asset Properties.

Where to find:

👉 Data sources are now shown in Properties of any asset.

Explore IT Service relationships in Tables using Tags

Where to find:

👉 As Administrators and Contributors in vScope, you can access this features by accessing Tables > Create Table > IT Services > Create Tag > Tag From Relationship > IT Service

Navigate to different tables from Ratio widgets

You can now navigate to different tables that are used as source for a ratio or comparison widget. Just click on the number you are interested in and you will navigate to the underlying table.

Where to find:

👉 Available to any Ratio and Comparison widget. Notice that you must have permission to view the underlying table for this to work.

Bugs & Improvements

Added links to guides for how to connect to data sources to vScope.
Fix for Azure Credential missing Inactive Devices toggle.
Fix for Tags from Discovery that sometimes did not not work from the latest release.
Fix for Veeam Backup scan sometimes aborting.
Fix for erroneous stitching of assets, mainly from VMM.
Various UI bug fixes in vScope Billing.
Various UI improvements, standardizing different views in vScope.

3.28.0, 26 October, 2023

What’s New

New Design: Browse your Billing reports in a completely new way

Notice 👉 We are continuously rolling out this facelift during October. Please get in touch if you want this update as soon as possible.

Revamped Design: Say hello to vScope Billing’s fresh and modern interface. We’ve given it a sleek makeover, making your billing reports more visually appealing and user-friendly.

Agreement Overview: You can now easily access a full overview of agreements associated with each billing account. This feature streamlines the process of managing and tracking your agreements, providing you with all the necessary information at your fingertips.

Enhanced Navigation: Our new design provides a more structured and user-friendly layout. You’ll find it even easier to navigate seamlessly from your billing account to specific agreements and dive into detailed billing information or price lists. This improved structure ensures you can effortlessly find the data you need.

Bugs & Improvements

Fix for not being able to add connection to Azure.
Fix for broken Veeam inventory.

vScope 3.27

3.27.10, 23 October, 2023

Improved customization: Filter tag values when creating new tags

Create tags with values from other tags and use custom filters to fetch the exact values you are looking for. This is especially useful if you want to count or sum specific values from either another tag, or from a related asset. In the image above, we create a tag with all the Chrome applications that are installed on the machine – by filtering the Installed Applications tag matchin *Chrome*.

Find it in vScope: Creating tags using filters are available in Tables or Tags (admin or contributor permissions required)

Enhanced Discovery capabilities: Inventory platforms without targets using proxy

Assign cloud platforms to be discovered using a Proxy. This way you can customize the inventory scope even further, by eg. inventorying various Azure environments using different proxies.

Find it in vScope: Go to Discovery Manager > Credentials and select a cloud data source (eg. Azure, Amazon, or Jamf).

Microsoft 365 Defender: Customized asset inventory

Choose to either inventory all devices in Microsoft 365 Defender, or ignore those that are Inactive. Inactive devices in Microsoft 365 Defender, are those devices that have been enrolled in the platform but has Sensor Health = Inactive. Devices will automatically be removed from Defender after six months of inactivity.

Bugs & Improvements

You can now add a field to a IT Service Layout multiple times.
Improve caching of Active Directory integration for user management. Should improve performance if you are using Active Directory instead of Azure SSO as Directory Service.
Fix for resolving � characters from SNMP devices. This is the actual value that is stored on the device, but vScope now ignores these values to show the values that is requested.
Fix for various broken external links.
Fix for non-readable Tag Description.
Fix for SNMP not properly collecting File Share values for storage devices.
Fix for saving Tracker notification settings for non-administrators in vScope.
Fix for various incorrect row-breaks in Library.
Various UI fixes.

3.27.8 & 3.27.9, 5 October, 2023

Collect Assets from Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)

You can now gather servers, clients, and mobile devices directly from your Azure Active Directory, enhancing the accuracy and completeness of your IT inventory.

Learn more

Inventory any printer device with extended SNMP functionality

By using Tags from Discovery for SNMP devices, you can collect custom values from OIDs on network devices and add as tags in vScope.

Learn More & Get Started

Improvements

Owner Relationships: Gain better insights into device ownership with our latest user-to-device mapping feature. This improvement incorporates user accounts from Active Directory, along with their recent activity on a device, facilitating a deeper understanding of device ownership.
Viewer has a Profile Page: vScope Viewers can now personalize and manage their Profile page, providing a more tailored user experience.
Multiple IT Service Relationships: No more limit of how many relationships you can add between IT services.
Tool Tip: For improved readability.
Bulk Actions: Perform bulk actions efficiently, now available in Discovery Manager and Library for increased productivity.
UI & UX: We’ve made various user interface and user experience improvements across the product to enhance your overall experience.

Bug fixes

We’ve enhanced domain matching for Microsoft Intune and Windows Defender, ensuring more accurate information.
Addressed an issue where the “Copy IT Services” feature was not working as expected, ensuring seamless IT service management.
Fix for relationship in Service Mapping breaking.

3.27.7 September 21, 2023

Improvements

Easily customize your table with quick filters for faster data manipulation

The aggregation bar in tables is now expandable, allowing you to customize it your way

Custom timespan on KPI, Ratio, and Comparison widget

Select the timespan you want to view in your widget. The default is set to last seven days, but you can select up to last year. Notice, vScope will still use seven data points, but spread out over a longer period of time.

New advanced settings for Microsoft SQL inventory

You can now better customize how vScope authenticates when discovering Microsoft SQL. This complements the existing settings and gives you full control of how to inventory Microsoft SQL data sources.

https://support.vscope.net/adding-microsoft-sql-data-source

More…

View Share Access Control for CIFS Share: Follow up on who can access what in a CIFS Share, directly in a table (Try searching for Folder Permissions)
Manual Tags from Windows Defender: Windows Defender tags can now be manually managed as “Tags from Discovery.”
Updated Content: Enjoy refreshed and updated content for faster access to insights.
Various UI/UX Enhancements: Experience a smoother interface with eg. autofocus on the search field, improved checkbox alignment on larger displays, and updated spelling throughout vScope.
Performance Boost: We’ve made various performance enhancements to optimize your user experience.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where SNMP collected multiple MAC addresses from printers.
Fixed the bug preventing users from changing the Collaboration group name.
Corrected erroneous stitching of devices from Active Directory.

3.27.6 September 7, 2023

Features

Manage your own vScope Profile as a Viewer.

Improvements

Performance improvements
Various UI improvements
Updated to Jetty 10
Improve matching strategy of assets from Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Bugs

Fix for being unable to copy service with missing components.
Fix for not supporting numeric Billing Accounts.

3.27.4 & 3.27.5 August 23, 2023

New Features

Invite more people to vScope Service Mapping and provide them with permissions that align with their roles. Now, you have the ability to grant viewers or users the capability to create and edit IT Services. This can be achieved through the use of Extended Permission Groups, accessible under Settings > Users & Groups.

Improvements

Enhanced management of proxy updates, reducing the likelihood of version discrepancies between the master and the proxy.
Azure SQL database size is now displayed on Properties.
Update of vScope Profile page.
Progress is now shown by default in Discovery Manager.
Reach our support site at support.vscope.net.
Improved Discovery performance, using dynamic threads by default.
Improved performance in various tag calculations.
UI/UX fixes: Standardize button positioning, bulk actions, and table headers throughout the product.
Various bothersome UI glitches that might have caused frustration.

Bugs

Fix for tag values from Azure missing on some Servers.
Fix for multiple remote office tag values shown.
Added fallback support to old MSSQL driver for SQL Server 2000. This will help you inventory more databases.
Fix for broken links in new Profile page.
Fix for missing relationship between application and machines.

3.27.3 June 20, 2023

Bugs

Minor UI tweaks
Updated Tracker case about IIS sites
Improved stitching

3.27.1 & 3.27.2 May 29, 2023

New Features

Discover tips & tricks and hidden features with the carousel

We’ve curated an extensive collection of tips, tricks, and hidden gems in vScope to help you master it like a pro. Explore the tips in the Home Screen carousel to get the most out of vScope.

Collect your Custom Tags for resources in Azure

Fill vScope with your custom data from Azure. With our latest update, you can now collect and organize Custom Tags on your resources in Azure.

Pause email notification with the Out Of Office setting

Introducing Out Of Office (OOO) for notifications in vScope. OOO lets you pause email notifications for a limited time. This way you can pause tracker emails and other notifications from overflowing your email inbox while you are on vacation. Once back, you will take off where you left.

Visualize your IP planning in IP Insight

We’re excited to announce that our IP planning tool, ‘IP Insight,’ is now available to even more users! Plan and manage your IP addresses effortlessly, gaining valuable insights into your network infrastructure. With this add-on, we’re bringing the power of IP Insight to a wider audience, helping you stay ahead of the curve and optimize your IP ranges.

Improvements:

Improved bulk actions in Tag Manager

Managing tags has just become a breeze! Our enhanced bulk actions in the Tag Manager allow you to efficiently handle multiple tags simultaneously. Effortlessly apply changes, organize your tags, and save time on repetitive tasks.

Updated MSSQL library supporting TLS 1.3, now supporting enforcing encrypting

Your security is our top priority! That’s why we’ve upgraded our MSSQL library to support TLS 1.3. We have also introduce the ability to enforce encryption when connecting to your database systems.

Other

New tags from processes, eg. ‘Process ID’ from Linux Red Hat OS
Section Description, and Tag Description is now shown in layout builder for IT Services
Better indication of the table state when adding a saved table to a collection, eg. if you are adding an unsaved version of the table to a collection
Updated Computation design components, replacing the modal with dropdown elements.

Bugs:

Fix for not being able to navigate from Billing to IT Services.
Fix for ‘Adding Component’ dropdown in IT Services.
Fix for not being able to delete tags when search is active.
Fix for Hyper-V VMs in vScope are missing Veeam Job connection.
Fix for Users not being able to view Tracker

3.27.3 June 20, 2023

Bugs

Minor UI tweaks
Updated Tracker case about IIS sites
Improved stitching

3.27.1 & 3.27.2 May 29, 2023

New Features

Discover tips & tricks and hidden features with the carousel

We’ve curated an extensive collection of tips, tricks, and hidden gems in vScope to help you master it like a pro. Explore the tips in the Home Screen carousel to get the most out of vScope.

Collect your Custom Tags for resources in Azure

Fill vScope with your custom data from Azure. With our latest update, you can now collect and organize Custom Tags on your resources in Azure.

Pause email notification with the Out Of Office setting

Visualize your IP planning in IP Insight

Improvements:

Improved bulk actions in Tag Manager

Updated MSSQL library supporting TLS 1.3, now supporting enforcing encrypting

Other

New tags from processes, eg. ‘Process ID’ from Linux Red Hat OS
Section Description, and Tag Description is now shown in layout builder for IT Services
Better indication of the table state when adding a saved table to a collection, eg. if you are adding an unsaved version of the table to a collection
Updated Computation design components, replacing the modal with dropdown elements.

Bugs:

Fix for not being able to navigate from Billing to IT Services.
Fix for ‘Adding Component’ dropdown in IT Services.
Fix for not being able to delete tags when search is active.
Fix for Hyper-V VMs in vScope are missing Veeam Job connection.
Fix for Users not being able to view Tracker

3.27.0 May 8, 2023

New Features

Updated Home screen for better overview

New home screen with quick access to various views in your library. The updated home screen helps you visualize what’s in your vScope, including favorites, your content, or content that has been shared with you

Improvements:

New tags: CPU and RAM reservation from VMware
Updated colors on asset type IT service
New visualization of datastore storage information in Properties

Bugs:

Fix for issues with invited users having problems signing in
Fix for AD integration, UI blocked upon changes
Fix for Hyper-V machines missing Veeam Jobs
Fix for search input loses focus on the search in the timeline
Fix for deleted groups lingering in the user manager
Fix for bad message 431 in Tracker for Service Mapping (too long URLs…)
Fix for not being able to hide rows from timeline
Fix for modal-overlay-loop when trying to delete a tracker case

vScope 3.26

3.26.1 April 13 2023

Bugs:

Fix for vScope Billing not loading after Directory Machines have been removed.

3.26.0 April 11, 2023

New Features:

View tags from neighboring assets, based on relation. Read all about it in this blog post.

Improvements:

Major update of IP Insight

Showing a legend of what the different colors mean.
Fix for not properly mapping IP address.
Any IP address now always redirects the user to Properties for IP Address.

Other

vScope now shows a warning whenever one of your proxy installations is out of date (in Discovery Manager > Proxy).

Bugs:

Fixes for tags missing values for Certificates
Various bug fixes related to stitching, and merging duplicate assets based on conflicts trying to uniquely identify the asset.
An endpoint has been deprecated from the Azure Intune API, deviceUpdateStates. We are investigating if we can replace this endpoint with a new one. Until then, this will affect the following vScope tags:

Intune Windows Feature Update Version
Intune Windows Quality Update Version
Intune Windows Update Last Check-In Time
Intune Windows Update Last Scan Time
Intune Windows Update Status

vScope 3.25

3.25.15 March 20, 2023

New Features:

Inventory user accounts from any SQL database using vScope’s CustomSQL integration.

Improvements:

View Roles & Permissions for Azure App Registrations.
Now more hardware information from Microsoft Intune is displayed on Properties for All Machines and Mobile Devices.
In Table Explorer, tables managed by vScope now have the vScope icon showing.
Short-cut: Save a Copy is now always shown in Table Explorer whenever this is the primary action for a table (eg. when editing a bundled table).

Bugs:

Fix for Azure Mobile Devices not being inventoried from Azure if deviceID equal 000000-000….
Various fixes for text overflows in Properties and in Service Mapping

3.25.13, 3.25.14 February 27, 2023

Improvements:

New Asset Type: App Registrations.
- List your app registrations from Azure directly in vScope.
- Content about App registrations.
New Asset Type: Load Balancer.
- Collect Load Balancers from a custom data source using Custom SQL.
Create a Copy of IT Service in vScope Service Mapping.
More currencies added to vScope Billing, find them under ‘Price List Settings’.
Admin can now customize default session timeout for user accounts in vScope. You find this setting under Settings > Manage Users.
More relations are available for IT services when ‘Get Tag From Related Resource’ in Table Explorer.
Minor UI improvements.
Various performance enhancements related to eg. caching and tag calculations.

Bugs:

Fix for Azure reporting “Too Many Request” when collecting installed applications. This issue seems to have been caused by Microsoft making changes in their API limits.

3.25.9 January 30 2023,
3.25.10 February 1 2023,
3.25.11 February 6 2023,
3.25.12 February 13 2023

Improvements:

Create rule-based tags using operations on tag values. This allows you to add a resulting value from eg. adding or subtracting tag values.
Collect Extended Properties from MSSQL.
Azure Integration now collects sign-in events from over a year back.
Improved security in session cookie handling in the web server.
Search for tag description when selecting columns in Table Explorer.
Improved handling of Hyper-V replicas.

Bugs:

Fix for opening Properties for assets from Microsoft Defender.
Fix for Veeam Servers not showing in All Machines.
Fix issue with creating SSO users.
Fix for missing API endpoints in Swagger API.

3.25.8 January 9, 2023

Improvements:

Tags from discovery for port groups from VMware
Options for inventory deprovisioned mobile devices and Chromebooks from G Suite
Improved tracker notification emails
Improved performance in the Billing module

Bugs

Improved handling for process termination in VMM
Fix for broken avatar images

3.25.7 December 12, 2022

Improvements:

Tracker cases now support trigger criteria based on number of assets
New relationship between computers and last logged on user from SCCM
Updated navigation bar
Merge assets are now available in the following tables: Virtual Machines, Pysical Machines, Mobile Devices and Virtualization
New device/user relationship table on User and Computer/Mobile device properties page
New interface for displaying 403 – access denied and 404- not found errors

Bugs

Fix for VMs in VMware not jumping between clusters

3.25.4 November 21, 2022

Improvements:

Custom Tags for VMware clusters via tag from discovery.
New Relationship: Intune Primary User ↔️ Primary Device.
Intune Primary device and directory roles added to Properties for User Accounts.
Intune Primary User added to Properties for All Machine and Mobile Devices.
UI Update: Updated modals using old design to the current design system.
Mobile Device Count added as default price item in vScope Billing.

Bugs

Fix for not being able to share Snapshots.
Fixe for vScope sometimes did not return partial discovery when the G Suite probe failed.

3.25.3 October 31, 2022

Improvements:

Major performance enhancements for Azure integration.
Display Tag Description on hover of column header in Table Explorer.
Tags from Discovery now support Veeam Jobs and VMware Datastores.
Shortcut from right-clicking a row in Table Explorer to Service Card.
Show local user relationship between Machines and User Accounts in Properties
Sorting of asset types in Tags From Discovery.
Merging possible duplicate assets can be done from Table Explorer. Please review any suggestions from Discovery Manager first before making manual customizations of duplicates.

Bugs

Fix for not being able to save HTTPS certificate upload.
Fix for not being able to changing authentication method from AD to SSO.
Fix for history line plot chart y axis being partially hidden.
Fix for asset type overlap between modules.
Fix for Azure integration not using configured HTTP proxy.
Fix indexOutOfBounds exception for Network Adapters.

3.25.2 October 5, 2022

Improvements:

Tags from discovery now supports User Accounts and Groups from Google Workspace
Tags from discovery now supports User Accounts from SCCM
New tag: Mac adress for printers
Primary devices is now available on Properties Page for User Accounts
Improved stitching for computers from custom SQL
OS build version is now visible under ‘Update settings’ on Property Pages for “All Machines”
Primary users table on Property pages for “All Machines” now also shows ‘Full name’
The primary users table on Property pages for “All machines” is now relocated to the top of the page.
Added search feature in the attribute dropdown for price items in vScope Billing
Added search feature in the ’View Billing Account’ dropdown in vScope Billing
Scroll gets reset when navigating between pages.

Bugs

Date fields in vScope Service Mapping now doesn’t get converted into timestamps when changing into manual field
Action bar always remains visible when scrolling in the ‘Mange price list’ view in the billing module
Proxies configured in Settings > Connectivity is now used across every Azure integration

3.25.0 September 26, 2022

Features

Upgraded vScope backend to Java 11
Updated vScope frontend libraries

Improvements

Changed design element from text box to text area for Custom SQL integration in Discovery Manager

Explore older release notes (< 3.21.0)