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Windows Client – 1.0.0.7 – Updates and Bug Fixes

Features

  • Added support for automatic Custom Branding image updates
  • Added support  for Alt + click on the Control Panel icon to visit the Dashboard
  • Added support for TeamViewer 12

Changes

  • Added new method for uninstalling with the /remote flag
  • ServiceControl now looks for “Monitoring Client” (previously “Watchman”)
  • Additional error handling to service actions
  • Reworked how extended run operates. Will now skip extended run on initial install and run immediately after again with extended run enabled, prevents long delays on install
  • More graceful missing status element handling
  • Control Panel
    • Reworked way that elements are aligned and flow through the page
    • Tabs no longer create new forms when clicked
    • Added dynamic icon assignment to ControlPanel.exe
    • Dynamic icon assignment to taskbar and title when running ControlPanel.exe
  • Added more detailed log messages for plugins not running on extended runs
  • Error catching for corrupt event log in OS plugin
  • Now shows if flashx, plugin flash, and/or pepper flash are installed
  • Changed summary results that are displayed for RAM
  • Added function for datetime to UTC

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Control Panel not working on 32bit OS
  • Fixed duplicate keys for “agent_removed”
  • Switched date comparisons for extended runs (Now correctly runs when LastExtendedReport is older than a day)
  • Fixed {{}} dynamic field not filling in correctly in Contact Menu
  • Fixed mailto: link showing on Control Panel
  • Removed space appearing under separators in Contact Menu
  • Fixed issue where Contact Menu would get stuck in an infinite loop of creating -> reading -> creating .last_status files until crashing
  • Fixed trimming for main.log file

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