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.

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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.

3.30.3

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

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.

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.