Release Notes

vScope 3.31

3.31.7 – APRIL 23

Never Miss Important Updates in vScope

Stay up-to-date effortlessly! Now, key highlights are displayed directly on your home screen, ensuring you never miss a notification.

Enhanced Asset Properties for easier insights

Gain even more details and visibility into your assets. We’ve enhanced Properties and split it into three tabs:

• About – Find general, formatted information about each asset.
• Tags from Discovery – Explore custom tags defined by your team for detailed inventory.
• All Tags – Easily search across all tag names and values associated with an asset.

This update also ensures Properties is accessible for every asset type.

Enhanced on-boarding: Email Address Requirement

Collaboration is at the heart of vScope. To facilitate seamless teamwork, you will now be prompted to add an email address to your profile if one is missing. If you are using an account from Active Directory without any email address, we suggest you to either add an email in Active Directory, by start using an account with a registered email.

Improvements

• Visualize the structure of your IT services in the IT Service Overview.
• Updated Properties for User Groups, providing richer insights into relationships between groups, users, and devices.
• Expanded support for additional Ricoh printers.
• Enhanced data collection for local users via PowerShell.
• Improved management of group mapping for permission groups in SSO.
• Improved colors for dashboard widgets in dark mode.
• Automatic deselection of rows after adding a tag, preventing unintended multiple tagging.
• Implementation of informative empty states in areas such as Tracker, IT Services, and Discovery, providing better context when no data is present.
• Added a loading spinner in the Library Collection for improved user feedback.
• Support for connecting to encrypted MySQL databases with CustomSQL.
• Updated styling for delete buttons when importing tags.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where hover was not working on badges in disabled credentials.
• Fixed a bug where Microsoft Entra discovery would not return partial results in critical failure scenarios.
• Addressed an issue preventing Viewers from accessing the password reset page.
• Corrected the avatar/profile icon color in the IT Service Overview.
• Fixed a problem with the fallback email server not functioning for administrative emails.
• Removed the requirement for specifying an Asset Type when creating price items.
• Addressed various user interface issues, including styling for inline text in the badge component.

3.31.6 – APRIL 4

Improvements & Bug fixes

• Added Windows updates, Certificates and Firewall information from Windows Powershell.
• Added support for configuring https and port in Windows Powershell.
• Fix for not being able to change permission for user accounts.
• Fix for applications from Microsoft 365 Defender missing.
• Fix for Linux machines in 365 Defender being classified as servers.
• Fix for badges not showing for numeric inputs (eg. Ports).
• Fix for incorrect overflow of column headers in IT Services.

3.31.5 – March 24

Guided onboarding missions

To make onboarding easier, we’ve added a new “Missions” section to the Home screen. This feature displays suggested actions tailored to the user’s permission level (Admin, Contributor, User, or Viewer), enabling your users to quickly familiarize themselves with vScope’s functionalities. The result is a smoother onboarding experience and a faster path to IT Visibility!

Optimized vScope administration

We’ve enhanced the home screen for administrators by showing errors that require actions. Instead of sifting through scattered notifications, admins now see only the most critical issues that require immediate attention. If there are no actionable errors, the section remains hidden.

Broader application inventory

vScope’s inventory capabilities for Windows applications have been expanded to include both Windows Store-installed applications and user-specific installations. This enhancement is supported both in WinRM and Windows environments, providing a comprehensive view of the software landscape.

Faster table creation

We’ve reworked the table creation process by adding a search option to the dropdown. This improvement complements the existing “Popular” section, enabling experienced users to quickly locate the asset type they need while also helping new users easily explore available options.

Extended Azure application visibility

vScope now supports both internal Enterprise Applications—registered as App Registrations within your Microsoft Entra ID—and external Enterprise Applications eg. invited from other environments. While both types function as service principals in Azure AD, external applications require additional integration and handling. This enhancement provides a unified, secure overview of all your organization’s cloud applications, ensuring consistent Visibility of your Azure environment.

Improvements

• Added empty state illustrations across various views of vScope.
• Support for collecting devices from Microsoft Intune Endpoint Manager and Microsoft 365 Defender with Chrome and Linux OS.
  ⚠️ This fix may affect your License levels in Server and Client.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed sorting issues in Tables (History & Compare).
• Resolved Azure Entra ID not returning Partial on critical errors.
• Addressed the Timeline in Properties getting stuck in the loading state.
• Corrected Tracker emails being sent after license expiration.
• Various UI fixes (text alignments, icons, table styling, collaborators, and overflow).

3.31.4 – March 11

• Fix for proxies with status “Pending” resulting in hiding all proxies in Discovery > Proxies.
• Fix for widgets not being able to view tables locked in history with/without changes.
• Fix for tag created with value from other tag not working in Billing.
• Fix for Endpoint Central randomly outputting group names as arrays instead of strings.

3.31.3 – February 26

• Fix for Tracker cases causing issue when opening in Tables.
• Fix for computation not always being displayed.

3.31.2 – February 24

Highlight Changes in Tracker

History & Changes have been introduced in Tracker, making it easier to track and understand how assets evolve over time. You can now select from recent Tracker runs, and vScope will automatically highlight changes from the previous Tracker run (i.e. when Tracker cases were last evaluated).

Read more in our latest news post: Tracker – Stenkoll på förändringar (Swedish link)

Better Preview of Tracker Configurations

Tracker configurations are now displayed in the details view, helping you interpret results more effectively. Also, when creating a case, the conditions are explained in a human-readable format for better clarity.

Improvements

• Expanded Tagging via Relationships: You can now create more tags using relationships, unlocking additional connections between assets:
  • Group Policy → Is Disabled For → Domain
  • Group Policy → is Enabled For → Domain
    
  • Group Policy → Is Enforced For → Domain
    
  • Group Policy → Is Linked To → Domain
  • Domain → Has Disabled Linked → Group Policies
    
  • Domain → Has Enabled Linked → Group Policies
    
  • Domain → Has Enforced → Group Policies
    
  • Domain → Is Linked To → Group Policies
    
  • User → is managed by → Group
  • Group → is managing → User
    
  • Domain → contains → Groups
  • Group → is part of → Domain
    

• Dropdown Enhancements: Search is now available in more dropdown inputs when there are more than 20 options, making it easier to find what you need.
• New tags available from SCCM: Tags created from discovery now supports values from the table v_GS_SYSTEM_ENCLOSURE
• Optimized Page Width: The Home Screen and IT Services are now wider to display more data across all screen sizes.
• License Warnings: Improved handling and presentation of various license warnings.
• IT Service Consistency: IT Services are now consistently referred to as “IT Services” instead of variations like “Services”.
• Removed User: User is missing is now defined as Removed User for nicer user experience.

Bug Fixes

• Activate License Offline: Fixed an issue where uploading a license was not possible when vScope was offline and unlicensed.
• Registry Keys: Resolved “Access Denied” errors when handling nested registry keys.
• Billing Export Format: Ensured values are exported in the correct format based on format settings.
• Boolean Fields in IT Services: Fixed an issue where boolean fields were not displaying “False” / “No” or similar values.
• Dropdown Menu Misplacement: Fixed an issue where dropdowns hid tag inputs in the Tags section.
• Search Dropdown: Fixed an issue where the Search dropdown was not fully clickable.
• Row Highlighting: Tables now correctly highlight rows after a right-click context menu selection.
• Proxy Sorting: Fixed incorrect sorting of Proxies in Discovery.
• Tooltip fixes: Various tooltips repositioning to not block any important elements or overflow the screen.

3.31.0 & 3.31.1 – February 12, 2024

Performance and security enhancements

While not directly visible to end-users, this update brings significant improvements to the vScope service:

• Java 21 optimizes memory management: Garbage collection and thread handling within the JVM have been improved, resulting in faster application execution and reduced resource consumption. These optimizations contribute to smoother and more efficient operations.
• Enhanced Security: Java 21 includes critical security patches and updates that were not available in Java 11, strengthening the resilience of your software against modern threats and ensuring a more secure environment for your data.
• Improved Startup Time: With Java 21, vScope now starts faster, ensuring quicker accessibility to the service, especially after updates or restarts.

IT Service Improvements

• Optimized Field Calculations: We’ve implemented several optimizations to field calculations, significantly enhancing the experience when updating IT services, especially for large data sets.

vScope 3.30

3.30.10, 3.30.11

January 27, 2024

Strengthening IT Governance with More IT Service Templates

You now have access to a broader range of bundled sections for building your IT Service documentation. Customize layouts to suit your needs and align them with your governance practices.

Example of new sections:

• Governance & Responsibility: Identify who is responsible for managing the service over time.
• Service Level Agreement (SLA): Specify service levels, support commitments, and service availability.
• Service Provider: Include information about the service provider and system integrators.
• Lifecycle Management: Define how the service is managed throughout its lifecycle.
• Authentication: Detail how users and systems authenticate to access the IT service.

New Way of Adding Data Sources

vScope now suggests the most popular data sources for you to add to your Discovery. This makes it easier to continuously improve your IT discovery process.

Improvements

• Linux Machines from Microsoft 365 Defender: Collect more devices, in edition to Windows and Mac OS, from Microsoft 365 Defender.
• Search for Organizational Units: Quickly navigate to detailed documentation about your Organizational Units directly from the search bar.
• Building Dashboards: Enjoy a smoother experience when dragging widgets into your dashboard.
• Content Update: The fixed date for vScope Wrapped now fully summarizes your 2024 in vScope.
• Various UI Enhancements: Includes updates to button styling, dropdowns, notifications, and Discovery toggles.

Bug Fixes

• Email Encoding: Resolved issues with invalid characters in certain email clients.
• Duplicate Computer Systems: Fixed an issue where computer systems from Active Directory were sometimes duplicated.
• Azure Extension Attributes: Resolved a problem where vScope displayed extensionAttributes even when none were available.

3.30.9

December 16, 2024

🎆 Review your IT environment 2024 with vScope

It’s that time of the year when companies wrap a yearly summary for their user to explore. And this year, you can do the same in vScope. We’ve bundled a new dashboard that makes use of vScope’s History & Changes feature to summarize some of the most important metrics of the last year. Check it out!

Export Billing Agreements to a Single Excel Sheet

Easily export all billing data from multiple agreements into one Excel sheet. This helps you streamline workflows for transforming, customizing, or sharing data. You can also use the export for easier import to other systems such as invoicing or business systems.

Where to find…
Navigate to Billing > Agreements, select the agreements you want to export, and click Actions > Export.

Configure Tracker Run Times and Email Notifications

Take control of when Tracker cases are updated and email notifications are sent. Choose settings that best fit your workflow.

Where to find…
Go to Settings > Tracker. Set to Daily for regular updates or After Discovery to update cases and receive emails whenever new data is available.

Block Sensitive Values from Active Directory

Now you can exclude certain values from being inventoried in vScope. Ideal for sensitive data stored in AD, ensuring it remains hidden in reports.

Where to find…
Navigate to Discovery > Credentials > LDAP, then under Advanced Settings, find the option Sensitive account attributes to exclude.

Improvements

• Search by Phone Numbers: Locate mobile devices more easily using phone number search in vScope.
• Asset Preview Before Merge: Preview asset data before applying manual merge rules (not reversible).
• Improved Inventory Toggles: Refinements for Oracle DB and Endpoint Central toggles.
• Cleaner Layout: Sidebar removed in Tracker, IT Service views to prepare and maximize screen space for content.
• Better Email Previews: Improved preview text for emails to offer better insights without opening them.
• Optimized Email Sizes: Fix for oversized emails, reducing overall email size.
• Updated Default Avatar: Replaced the “User is Missing” placeholder with a more polished profile icon.
• Reorganized Action Buttons: Actions are now easier to find in Properties and IT Services.
• Simplified Permissions Management: Manage table permissions more intuitively when adding collaborators via Dashboards.
• Updated Dropdown Value Styling: Enhanced styling for dropdown values in IT Services for a cleaner look.

Content

Dashboards:

• Hyper-V Overview Dashboard: Grouped into sections.
• Virtualization Documentation Dashboard: Dashboard grouped into sections.
• Server Overview: Dashboard grouped into sections.

Tables:

• Windows Server Time Settings: Documents Time Zone settings on servers across your network.
• Active Directory User Accounts Overview: A basic, but yet powerful, documentation about users in your Active Directory.
• User and Group assignments:
• OneDrive Users: Lists users and their OneDrive Usage

Tracker Cases:

• Multiple Time Zones Detected: Helping you identify if servers have misconfigured TimeZone settings.

Bug Fixes

• Email Encoding: Resolved invalid character issues in specific email clients.
• OS Classification: Fixed incomplete OS population, improving asset classification as Client or Server.
• Operating System Description: Enhanced descriptions for AD, OS, and Description tags.
• Certificate Signature Algorithm: Fixed display of the Signature Algorithm from Windows OS via WinRM.
• Duplicate Table Columns: Prevented adding duplicate columns to tables in IT Services.
• Duplicate Dashboard Widgets: Users can now drag-and-drop the same widget multiple times to Dashboards.
• Account Expiry Date: Fixed incorrect handling of empty expiry dates in AD, ensuring accurate data display.
• Time Offset: Resolved 1-hour offset issues in AD-related timestamps, like Password Set Time.
• SSH Discovery: Fixed occasional failures with SSH private key credentials.
• IIS Inventory: Addressed PowerShell-related IIS inventory issues.
• vCenter Toggling Names: Name values now prioritize over IP addresses consistently.
• Billing Agreement Preview: Fixed issues with previewing billing period settings in Agreements.
• Enhanced Performance: Improved load times for sections and fields in IT Service Mapping.
• Text and UI Fixes: Corrected various spelling errors and improved dropdown input widths.
• Azure Inventory: Fixed “Resource Not Found” errors when inventorying Azure.

3.30.8

November 25, 2024

Follow and favorite Tracker Cases

Choose between receiving notifications for cases or marking them as Favorites for quick access. Use the email button to follow a case and add it to your personal email list. This way, you can get a much more personalized Tracker experience.

Additional IT Service layouts for improved documentation

New layouts have been added to help you get started with documenting IT Services. Remember, layouts are templates you can fully customize to suit your needs.

Quick copy multiple values from Tables

Found something interesting to take elsewhere? Easily copy multiple values from table cells by selecting the rows, right-clicking, and choosing Copy values in [Tag Name] from highlighted rows.

Improvements

• Improved User Account Search: Differences between accounts, such as data source and username, are now displayed.
• Pagination for IT Services: Simplified adding inventoried assets to IT Services with pagination.
• Enhanced Tooltips in Billing: Added tooltips to column headers for better visibility of long texts.
• Improved Offsite Backup Descriptions: Clarified instructions for offsite backups of vScope data.
• Restructured Settings Page: Reorganized for better accessibility and usability.
• Upgraded Inventory Settings: Improved settings for Windows (PowerShell) and Azure RM configurations.
• New Tag Descriptions: Additional descriptions added to improve usability.
• Improved Special Character Search: Enhanced handling of special characters (e.g. ) in search.
• Direct Table Entry for Manual Assets: Manual assets can now be added directly in the IT Services table.
• Saved Filter States: Quickly navigate across views like Library and Billing with preserved filter states.
• Filter Permissions and Group Assignments: Added filters in the Users section for easier management.

Bug Fixes

• Fix for duplicate assets from Windows and SCCM.
• Fix for duplicate assets in End Point Central.
• Fix for disabling sidebar when editing Tracker Case.

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.

3.30.3

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.