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Site Manager 8 Release Notes
8.0.6929 - 2022-08-19
Fixed
- Improved error handling for transient database errors generating notification emails
- Fixed Agent crash when processing pre-version 6 Reflect logs
- Fixed backups started from the local Agent creating no logs if a stealth intra-daily backup was the last Site Manager triggered backup
- Fixed issue where the backups can fail on non-English systems which do not have internet connectivity
- Improved error handling for unusual behaviour by a repository during remote sync
- Improved remote sync for FTP, file removal now treats 'file not found' as success
- Fixed UI crash when leaving a date range filter open on the Events page then changing page
8.0.6906 - 2022-08-01
Fixed
- Fixed missing Clone icon on Logs page.
- Fixed desktop icon not working on non-elevated accounts under Windows Server 2022
- Fixed Emails not sending when set to Plain Text mode
- Fixed Email automatic authentication being unset on upgrade
- Fixed some email failures logging as successes in the Event Log
- Fixed email notifications not showing backup level or type correctly
- Fixed HTTPS key and certificate validation not accepting all valid key and certificate types
- Fixed issue with email send failing on some SMTP servers due to automatic authentication picking the wrong method
- Fixed FTP remote syncs encountering problems when the upload of the first block of the file fails due to network connectivity
8.0.6898 - 2022-07-25
Added
- Added role-based login system
- Users and Groups on a domain or local machine can be assigned roles which limit their access to Site Manager
- Five fixed roles are available: Standard User (View only), Backup Operator, Restore Operator, Backup Manager, Server Manager
- Added viBoot to Site Manager server installer - For more information, see the viBoot KnowledgeBase
- Added power saving options to the run now backup wizard and scheduled backup wizard
- Added Macrium Image Guardian information to repositories and added the ability to toggle MIG status
- Added changed file sizes and counts for the last 24 hours/7 days to Repository status
- Added CBT driver status to computer's details
- Added 'reboot computer' maintenance action
- Added computer tags for locally scheduled backups
- Added an assortment of command line actions to both the agent and server
- Debug and support options
- Agent connection check
- Agent driver gathering
- Site Manager Server first time install options
- Site Manager Server upgrade
- Site Manager Server data export
- Added a new driver harvester application to harvest drivers from computers with no agent installed
- Added a standalone installer for Macrium Image Guardian
- Backup log files will now be removed from Agent computers based on the Site Manager log retention setting
- Added automatic deletion of backup logs on Agent computers according to the Site Manager server log retention setting
- Agents connecting to Site Manager for the first time can now be automatically added to the computers table
- Computers added using an IP address now cache that IP address for remote install
Changed
- Update Agent backup engine to Macrium Reflect 8 version 8.0.6867. See here for details
- Improved performance of Remote Sync
- Existing FTP connect and response timeout values are now user configurable
- The Rescue USB Builder now has a GUI interface as well as the command line interface
- Additional event logs have been added for MIG status toggling and deleting backups from repositories
- Remote sync logs are now created on a per sync basis
- Improved the computers page table sorting and filtering
- Improved the remote sync dashboard widget output
- Improved remote install with further 'best effort' additions
- Improved remote sync/S3 retry logic
- Optimised Network share, FTP and S3 remote sync upload speeds
- Additional remote sync config and summary logging
- Improved settings saving to check for incorrect/impossible situations before save
- Improved logs page layout and filtering
- Improved handling of Repository connection failures during backup
Fixed
- Fixed poor Agent performance with large numbers of backup logs
- Fixed rare remote sync (FTP) crash
- Fixed issue where multiple Remote Syncs in parallel could cause deadlock and lock up the user interface
- Fixed bug where scheduled backups appeared unsorted
- Fixed bug where a tooltip was hidden by the logs page
- Fixed bug where sorting by activity was not working
- Fixed bug where the domain would not be disabled when the username field included the domain
- Improved CPU performance when creating rescue media
- Fixed and improved an assortment of event logs
- Fixed bug where AgentsActivity.log could be corrupted
- Fixed bug that prevented existing remote sync configurations from being edited
- Fixed poor performance in populating the repository with large numbers of files
- Fixed some cases of Agents incorrectly reporting reboot required due to CBT being uninstalled
- Fixed unusual comms failure if the target computer has a name that is a strict substring of the Site Manager server (e.g. SERVER vs. SERVER-SM)
- Fixed the Agent service preventing ejection of a USB drive with a bitlocker locked partition
- Fixed rare crash in Site Manager server when processing a VSS log over 4MB in size
- Fixed AWS Storage Gateway Repository wizard issues with incorrectly revalidating credentials when being edited
8.0.6503 - 2022-01-12
Added
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