Lansweeper 8.4.100.9

Fixed: LAN-10199 Creating or deleting certain items in the web console, e.g. an asset group, can cause the sync with the IT Asset Data Platform to start failing

Added: LAN-8053 An auto-update feature is now available under Configuration\Server Options that can be enabled to automatically keep Lansweeper scan servers up-to-date
Changed: LAN-4287 Help desk email and email alerts now support Modern Authentication and Microsoft Graph for Office 365 mailing, as Microsoft is deprecating Basic Authentication
Changed: LAN-5375 Intune and Office 365 data can now be scanned with a new v2 scanning target that uses Modern Authentication and Microsoft Graph, as Microsoft is deprecating Basic Authentication
Changed: LAN-8706 Optimized the way IT Asset Data Platform setting changes are read from the Lansweeper database, to reduce the amount of database querying
Fixed: LAN-3580 A SQL Server instance that is removed from a Windows computer fails to be removed from the computer’s asset page in Lansweeper after a rescan
Fixed: LAN-3220 Active Directory User/Group Path scans of large OUs can take several days to complete
Fixed: LAN-4490 Character encoding issue in schedule names under Deployment\Scheduled Deployments
Fixed: LAN-1663 Character encoding issue in the popup you see when hovering over a user in the web console
Fixed: LAN-8083 If a Linux computer has a software installed with left or right quotation marks in its software properties, Lansweeper fails to scan the computer’s full software inventory
Fixed: LAN-8511 If the FQDN field of an asset is empty and the asset is edited, the field is sometimes filled with a blank string, which causes incorrect results in certain reports
Fixed: LAN-8248 Lansweeper fails to scan software info of Arch Linux distributions
Fixed: LAN-4137 OS information of non-Windows assets is not displayed on the Assets\LsAgent Assets page
Fixed: LAN-8751 Path traversal issue related to certain Lansweeper configuration pages
Fixed: LAN-8784 Software scanning inconsistencies between LsPush and agentless scanning, causing incorrect software history entries to be generated
Fixed: LAN-4680 The help desk ticket API fails to process ticket requests whose ticket description includes line breaks or other formatting
Fixed: LAN-9291 The Lansweeper scanning service is stuck in the Starting state when updating from a version older than 8.0 to the latest Lansweeper release
Fixed: LAN-5020 The list of available action parameters under Configuration\Asset Pages in the web console does not mention the {mac} parameter though this parameter is functionally available
Fixed: LAN-2305 The unique identifier of a Windows computer is sometimes erroneously set to the computer’s IP address instead of its domain\name combination, resulting in duplicate assets for the same machine
Fixed: LAN-5649 The unique identifier of manually created monitor and other types of assets is incorrectly formed sometimes

Added: LAN-7771 Credential-free Device Recognition or CDR is a new scanning feature that improves the accuracy of key asset properties (type, manufacturer, model, OS) in situations where scanning credentials are not available. Devices that would previously be marked as “network devices” or “web servers” for instance can now be more accurately identified without the need for credentials.
Changed: LAN-8429 If a Lansweeper license is not allowed to export data, the warning message for an attempted Hyper-V log export is now shown in a popup and not within the webpage itself
Changed: LAN-8472 Updated the built-in list of iOS codes and names
Fixed: LAN-8423 A 404 error occurs when attempting to export Hyper-V log data with a Lansweeper license that should be allowed to do so
Fixed: LAN-5024 Azure and Intune scanning fail to take proxy server settings submitted under Configuration\Server Options into account
Fixed: LAN-4998 Chrome OS scanning fails when using proxy server settings that include authorization
Fixed: LAN-5352 Database connectivity issues can cause the scanning service to rerun Lansweeper update scripts on the Lansweeper database, leading to duplicate data or a broken installation in some cases
Fixed: LAN-4559 Dell warranty scanning fails when using proxy server settings
Fixed: LAN-4269 HP Inc warranty scanning is non-functional due to changes on the manufacturer’s website
Fixed: LAN-4300 Lack of input validation for the proxy server fields under Configuration\Server Options, causing web server errors to be thrown in some cases
Fixed: LAN-8175 Lansweeper freeware installations that have not reached their asset limit are prevented from exporting report results via alerts, which should not be the case
Fixed: LAN-8315 The check that verifies whether a Lansweeper license is allowed to export data looks at the total asset count when it should be looking at the licensed asset count instead
Fixed: LAN-7812 The domain/workgroup asset counts seen when hovering over the Assets menu don’t match the asset lists seen when clicking through to a specific domain or workgroup
Fixed: LAN-5114 The LsAgent relay connection fails when using proxy server settings that include authorization
Fixed: LAN-4911 The proxy server input boxes under Configuration\Server Options are placed too far to the right
Fixed: LAN-8322 The warranty buttons under Configuration\Server Options fail to trigger a warranty scan when pressed

Fixed: LAN-8350 The tblAssetJournal table, which is used for the sync with the IT Asset Data Platform, is filled with data even for users not syncing with the ADP, leading to unnecessary use of database space

Changed: LAN-7404 Digitally signed the Lansweeper software and LsAgent installer for Windows with a new certificate
Changed: LAN-5715 Optimized and updated the Dell warranty scanning feature, as the existing implementation will cease to function on September 25th, 2020

Added: LAN-4545 After a Lansweeper update, users with Lansweeper config rights now see new feature notifications in the upper right corner of the web console, which can be dismissed
Added: LAN-3893 Asset Radar is a new, credential-free scanning feature that listens for assets within network traffic. It is particularly useful for discovering assets (e.g. rogue assets) that are only briefly present in your network.
Added: LAN-4814 It is now possible to optionally specify the context name of an SNMPv3 credential for SNMP scanning
Added: LAN-3911 MIB Importer and MIB Library are new features that allow you to import MIB files for custom SNMP OID scanning. You can add OIDs from your own MIB files or MIB files in the Lansweeper library.
Added: LAN-3252 Silent install, uninstall and update support for the Lansweeper installer. Parameters can be passed directly in your CMD command or using an INI file.
Added: LAN-3691 The Time Chart dashboard widget now includes several asset management reports in addition to help desk reports
Changed: LAN-4749 Added scanning support for the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region, also known as me-south-1
Changed: LAN-4827 APIPA, localhost and multicast IP ranges are no longer displayed in the First Run Wizard
Changed: LAN-4283 For consistency, some DateTime fields that were stored in the time zone of the scanning server are now stored in the time zone of the Lansweeper database
Changed: LAN-4578 It is no longer possible to update a Lansweeper installation hosted in the deprecated SQL Compact database server without first converting the database to SQL LocalDB or SQL Server
Changed: LAN-670 Renamed the edit buttons on the Assets page to Mass Edit Assets and Editing Mode for clarity
Changed: LAN-3843 The asset overview under Scanning\LsAgent Scanning now lists the version number of the LsAgent installation on each computer
Changed: LAN-3903 Turned the Check For Updates Now link under Configuration\Your Lansweeper License from an HTTP into an HTTPS link
Changed: LAN-4504 Updated the built-in lists of: anti-virus software, blacklisted MAC addresses not used for unique asset identification, OIDs used for SNMP lookup, OS codes and names
Changed: LAN-4331 When installing Lansweeper under the SQL LocalDB database server, LocalDB is now based on the more recent SQL Server 2014 Express SP3, build 12.0.6024.0
Fixed: LAN-4054 Active Directory user pages list domain\username at the top when they should be listing the user’s display name
Fixed: LAN-3759 AirWatch scanning can fail to scan or save user data of mobile devices
Fixed: LAN-3751 An ESXi server’s warranty information is removed when it is rescanned through its vCenter server
Fixed: LAN-3827 An unclear error message is sometimes generated when scanning an AirWatch scanning target whose server URL is not an AirWatch URL
Fixed: LAN-4083 An unnecessary merge comment is added to the Comments tab of Hyper-V guest assets after every rescan
Fixed: LAN-3778 Asset count discrepancy between the IP Locations Overview widget and the report listing assets in IP location Undefined
Fixed: LAN-3844 Asset delete errors related to database reference constraint FK_tblWindowsClusterNode_tblAssets  
Fixed: LAN-4630 Batch Scanning ignores the Hyper-V scanned item intervals, which it shouldn’t
Fixed: LAN-4069 By browsing directly to the relevant webpage URL, users without the Access Data Selection permission can still make changes to the performance scanning configuration, which should not be possible
Fixed: LAN-4023 Certain values retrieved during anti-virus, AWS, Azure, Exchange, Intune, Office 365 and SCCM scanning are trimmed and not fully written to the database, due to the database fields being too small
Fixed: LAN-2941 Character encoding issue in the domain name of Windows computers when using IP Range scanning targets
Fixed: LAN-4687 Creating a Windows Computer exclusion can result in exclusion warnings on the pages of non-Windows assets that meet the exclusion criterion
Fixed: LAN-2546 Editing and saving an existing asset/user relation comment, without changing anything, results in the comment being removed
Fixed: LAN-4445 Error when hovering over a Citrix Pool asset and selecting the Config tab
Fixed: LAN-3831 Errors when using the Truncate Logs button in the DatabaseMaintenance.exe tool
Fixed: LAN-2318 Extended warranty products of Lenovo assets are not scanned, resulting in an incorrect final warranty date for the asset
Fixed: LAN-4748 Faulty and unnecessary “invalid key hash” translation entry under Configuration\Translations in the web console
Fixed: LAN-4096 Having an invalid performance scanning target can prevent deployments from running
Fixed: LAN-3830 If a Mac computer is not successfully scanned through SSH, hovering over the asset still shows the (empty) Config and Software tabs, which it shouldn’t
Fixed: LAN-3800 If a software package on a Windows computer has no DisplayVersion but does have MajorVersion and MinorVersion registry values, LsAgent fails to scan the Major and Minor values as the software version
Fixed: LAN-3799 If an MSI software has both 32-bit and 64-bit registry entries, agentless and agent-based scanning are inconsistent in which entry they scan
Fixed: LAN-4722 If multiple Windows credentials are mapped to an IP range and the top one generates an access denied error, Batch Scanning fails to try the other mapped credentials
Fixed: LAN-4634 Inability to submit an asset/user relation without an end date
Fixed: LAN-3837 Inconsistent browser tab name when viewing the Scan Time tab of asset pages
Fixed: LAN-4693 Input validation issue related to the Username field of Office 365 scanning targets
Fixed: LAN-4540 Input validation issues in the Add Enterprise Configuration popup under Configuration\Enterprise Options
Fixed: LAN-4684 “Invalid AssetID” error when hovering over an Azure Virtual Machine asset and selecting the Config tab
Fixed: LAN-3826 Lack of server URL validation when importing AirWatch credentials from a .csv file  
Fixed: LAN-3698 Lansweeper does not fully scan a Microsoft Intune environment if it contains more than 1000 devices
Fixed: LAN-4450 Lansweeper’s Easy Install mode lets you choose the desired web server, an option that should only be present under Advanced Install mode
Fixed: LAN-2937 LDAP authentication inconsistency between different types of Active Directory scanning targets, resulting in inconsistent errors or scanning behaviors in some cases
Fixed: LAN-3985 Mac computers scanned using LsAgent are misidentified as Linux computers and little of their data is displayed
Fixed: LAN-4107 Making changes to one scanning server under Configuration\Server Options can result in unwanted changes to another scanning server and incorrect entries in the tblConfigLog database table
Fixed: LAN-3871 Manually created assets are not automatically added to the Default asset group as they should be
Fixed: LAN-4102 No or an unclear error message when attempting to submit an Active Directory Domain scanning target that already exists
Fixed: LAN-4773 Pushing Lansweeper data into Lansweeper Enterprise fails with the following error: “Unexpected character encountered while parsing value”
Fixed: LAN-3822 Removing a Linux or Mac asset under Scanning\LsAgent Scanning in Lansweeper results in repeated, unsuccessful attempts to uninstall LsAgent on the client machine
Fixed: LAN-4092 Running a performance scan on a report that includes assets only detected through SCCM causes the scan to fail with the following error: “Specified cast is not valid”
Fixed: LAN-3698 Scanning Microsoft Intune environments sometimes fails with the following error: "An error occurred while executing the command definition"
Fixed: LAN-4494 Scanning target statuses fail to update when scanning an Eventlog Only target, with the following error occurring in the background: “Specified cast is not valid”
Fixed: LAN-4648 Scans performed using the Rescan buttons fail to ignore the WINDOWSCLUSTERLOG scanned item interval as they should
Fixed: LAN-4010 SCCM scanning can fail with the following error: “An item with the same key has already been added”
Fixed: LAN-4476 Several issues in asset/user relation end date validation: end date marked as smaller than start date when it is not, spelling error in validation message
Fixed: LAN-4055 Several software scanning inconsistencies between LsAgent and agentless scanning, causing incorrect software history entries to be generated
Fixed: LAN-4554 The Add Enterprise Configuration popup under Configuration\Enterprise Options fails to load in Internet Explorer 11
Fixed: LAN-3855 The following error can occur during Active Directory scanning: “Could not find relative of object, the given key was not present in the dictionary”
Fixed: LAN-3857 The following error can occur while scanning Active Directory users: “The added or subtracted value results in an un-representable DateTime”
Fixed: LAN-3865 The following error can occur while scanning Linux sound cards: “StartIndex cannot be less than zero”
Fixed: LAN-4021 The following error can occur while the last logon info of Active Directory users is being scanned: “An item with the same key has already been added”
Fixed: LAN-3992 The following error sometimes occurs when performing a search using the asset search bar: “Index was outside the bounds of the array”
Fixed: LAN-4091 The Hyper-V scan date in a Windows computer’s Scan Time tab is not filled in even when Hyper-V data has been scanned
Fixed: LAN-4645 The Lansweeper scanning service crashes with an unhandled exception if it encounters a NULL value in tblADusers.ADObjectID
Fixed: LAN-4583 The Last Synced date under Configuration\Enterprise Options does not take the configured web console date format into account
Fixed: LAN-4821 The Lastchanged fields in tblSqlDatabases and tblSqlServers are always empty, even when SQL Server data has been scanned
Fixed: LAN-4130 The link to the Hyper-V host on the asset page of a Hyper-V guest is feature gated for legacy Lansweeper licenses, which it shouldn’t be
Fixed: LAN-3521 The LsAgent service on Linux computers has a non-descriptive name
Fixed: LAN-4038 The NetBIOS name of a Hyper-V guest asset is sometimes set to the machine’s display name in Hyper-V Manager instead of its actual NetBIOS name, resulting in errors upon rescanning the asset
Fixed: LAN-3839 The proxy server info text under Configuration\Server Options doesn’t mention all features that use proxy settings
Fixed: LAN-4834 The Summary tab of Windows and Linux computer webpages incorrectly labels the processor count as a core count
Fixed: LAN-4346 The tsysOS.OSCodeNumeric database field is not filled in for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 builds found during network scanning, resulting in incorrect results in certain OS reports
Fixed: LAN-4110 The “Windows computers logged onto” section fails to be displayed on the webpages of domain users whose Active Directory details haven’t been scanned
Fixed: LAN-2308 Toner information fails to scan for certain Brother printers, even though the data is available in the expected SNMP OIDs
Fixed: LAN-621 Triggering deployments on multiple asset pages within a short time frame can result in duplicate deployments on those assets
Fixed: LAN-4050 Unnecessary dot next to the OS icons of LsAgent assets under Scanning\LsAgent Scanning
Fixed: LAN-4114 When an automated user cleanup option removes an old Active Directory user from Lansweeper, it fails to also clean up the user's asset/user relations
Fixed: LAN-4767 When attempting to overwrite a Lansweeper installation hosted in the SQL LocalDB database server, an access denied error occurs on LansweeperLocalDBService.exe
Fixed: LAN-4276 When creating a new Windows event exclusion under Scanning\Scanning Targets, the input box to submit an exclusion comment is missing
Fixed: LAN-3861 When disabling certain scanning targets of a specific type and then performing a Scan Now of said type, the web console incorrectly indicates which targets are in the scanning queue
Fixed: LAN-2176 When dragging assets to a new location on a location map and then saving, the changes are sometimes lost
Fixed: LAN-3902 When editing an existing Workgroup scanning target whose workgroup name contains a space, the edit popup fails to load
Fixed: LAN-4815 When performing a Lansweeper installation under the SQL LocalDB database server and then reinstalling the scanning service, the LocalDB instance is removed and the scanning service fails to connect to it
Fixed: LAN-4804 When performing a Lansweeper installation under the SQL LocalDB database server and then reinstalling the web console, the scanning service config file is removed, which breaks the scanning service
Fixed: LAN-4568 When submitting a credential password that contains <> in the First Run Wizard, the following error occurs and the wizard resets at the end: “A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected”
Fixed: LAN-3825 When using multiple scanning servers, inconsistent phrasing of targeted servers in the Scanning Exclusions section of Scanning\Scanning Targets
Fixed: LAN-4452 When using SQL Server as the Lansweeper database server, updating to Lansweeper 7.2.106.26 and then updating again to a more recent build, this can result in the scanning service no longer being registered in Windows Services