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Promodag Reports for Microsoft Exchange Server. Email reporting tool. Updates to PROMODAG Reports
Version 8.7.102 - October 19, 2010

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Version 8.6.0105 - July 22 2010.
Corrections
An exception occurred when e.mail notifications were configured to be sent to several recipients.
It was not possible to select several SMTP addresses in the Output tab using the interface.
Day selection in the Period tab did not bring the requested days if using a SQL database.
An exception occurred when 75 mailboxes or more were selected in the Selection tab of a report also using the Compose For tab.
Improvements
Exchange 2007 SP3 is now supported.
It is now possible to select several email recipients using the Address Book dialog box in the Trace & Alert tab of Tools > Options.
The Email Rules report now displays recipients' SMTP addresses, and not their display names.
Version 8.6.0090 - June 8 2010.
Corrections
Quota filters were not active when no level detail was selected in the Mailbox Storage Information report.
Inaccessible mailboxes, or those not matching selected criteria, were not systematically listed at the end of the Mailbox Content report.
It was not possible to exclude hidden mailboxes from the Mailbox Content report.
An error could occur in the Mailbox Storage Information if some mailboxes were found twice.
An exception occurred when selecting mailboxes by SMTP domain.
The size of some mailboxes could be imported twice in some very specific circumstances.
The main window could display inconsistent information in the case when an Information Store marked as deleted had been restored.
Improvements
Tests on the user account and mailbox used to establish a connection to Exchange via MAPI have been improved.
The application now verifies whether the mailbox used to establish a connection to Exchange via MAPI is hidden in the Global Address List.
It is now possible to import over 800,000 mail contacts into the database.
Exchange 2007 Non-Delivery reports are now taken into account.
Version 8.6.0050 - February 5 2010.
Corrections
Filtering on mailbox storage quota did not work in the Mailbox Storage Information report.
An error occurred when starting the Old Address Usage report.
The OWA Requests List report was identical to the ActiveSync Requests List report.
An error occurred in the Mailbox Content report when meeting a root folder whose name started with an @.
An overflow exception could occur in the Mailbox Storage information report when filtering on mailbox storage quota.
Improvements
The directory import process is now able to deal with an OU containing over 200,000 mailboxes.
Version 8.6.0032 - December 10 2009.
Corrections
Selecting the 'Distinguished Name (Full)' optional attribute slowed down the report generation process.
The file name verification of exported reports was not comprehensive.
The options 'Show inaccessible mailboxes' and 'Show mailboxes not matching criteria' did not work in the Mailbox Content report.
A join error occurred in the Mailbox Folder Size report when 'Organization', and then 'Server' were selected in the Group tab.
The 'Date' and 'Grp' options of the Output tab did not work.
Invalid separators could be selected in the 'Set dynamic date' option.
An error occurred when exporting a report in HTML format to a SharePoint library.
An unrecoverable error occurred when a report's title was longer than 127 characters.
An error occurred in the Selected Attributes From Mailboxes report if mailboxes were selected by Distribution Group.
A 'System resource exceeded' exception occurred with OWA and ActiveSync reports when using an Access database.
It was impossible to obtain a monthly breakdown in the Server Traffic Evolution report.
An 'Arithmetic overflow error' could occur when generating the IMF Events List report.
A SQL exception could occur when generating the IMF Events List report.
A SQL system exception occurred in the SMTP Servers By Traffic Level report if IP addresses were excluded.
The graph's legend extended beyond its area and partially hid percentages.
The characters in wordings located below the horizontal axis of the OWA Usage Evolution report were too big.
An 'Object not set' error could occur when generating the Message Attachments report.
A SQL system exception occurred when generating the Non-Delivery Reports report if a filter containing the 'Not Like' condition was used.
The graph displayed more results than the table in the SMTP Servers by Traffic Level report.
The number of users displayed in the ActiveSync Usage Evolution report was not correct.
Improvements
The configuration wizard now automatically suggests an alert email address.
An explanatory message now appears when the file name of an exported report, or the path to it, are incorrect.
An explanatory message now appears when a user attempts to open an Access database while a message tracking files import is in progress.
The display of Exchange message tracking files imports history has been improved.
The message tracking files import process has been optimized.
Performance in IIS log files import has been dramatically improved.
The database upgrade process has been optimized.
Partial access rights to Active Directory do no longer prevent an NT account from importing the directory.
Active nodes of CCR-based clustered servers are now systematically discovered.
Errors and warnings are now time-stamped in trace files.
Performance of search for Exchange servers during directory import has been improved.
Performance of Distribution Group members search has been improved.
Performance in discovery of clustered servers' active nodes has been improved.
The wordings used in the Configuration wizard and its behaviour as a whole have been improved.
Distribution Groups are no longer available in the Group tab in order to avoid to report several times on final recipients.
The internal SMTP domains listed in the Group tab are now limited to those of primary addresses.
The wording 'No grouping' now replaces 'Organization' in the Group tab.
Version 8.6.0014 - September 11 2009.
Corrections
No attachment was created when graphical reports were exported to an email recipient as HTML files.
Selection of folders whose name contains a slash were not reloaded.
A top n was incorrect if criteria to be applied to the graph and to the table were not identically set in the Options tab.
It was impossible to select the Contact folder in reports of the Mailbox Information group.
It was not possible to select a Distribution Group in the reports' Output tab.
Some messages were mistakenly listed in the Mail Contact Usage report.
A Null Reference error message occurred in the Public Folders Content report when an inaccessible public folder was met.
Improvements
Windows 2008 R2 (32 & 64-bit editions) is now supported.
Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit editions) is now supported.
Exchange 2007 SP2 is now supported.
An rather unclear message was added to trace files when a report option file included in a batch contained the 'Destination: Screen' option.
Version 8.6.0007 - August 11 2009.
Corrections
Exported files to an Exchange folder were either empty, or unreadable.
Exported reports to MHT format did not display any picture if the name of the file contained accents
Version 8.6.0005 - August 7, 2009.
Corrections
Information stores default values were not correctly taken into account in the Mailbox Storage Information report.
The Item Breakdown by Age report does not work on particularly large mailboxes.
An overflow error occurred in the Mailbox Storage Information report if a very high storage warning limit was met.
Running several Mailbox by Traffic Level reports in one single batch job could lead to unexpected results, for the batch file was only able to use one single partners selection.
An overflow error occurred in the Mailbox Specific Content Estimation report if a very high storage warning limit was met.
Histograms of the Folder Size Comparison report did not display correctly.
 
Improvements
The Quick Start Manual is now also available in French and German languages.
The Help system has been updated and improved.
The Clear Imports option now runs faster.
Incompatibilities between actions are now more efficiently managed to avoid locking consoles.
Trace files have been improved, particularly the section dealing with directory import.
Reports of the OWA Activity group now run faster
Reports of the OWA Activity and ActiveSync Activity were entirely revised.
The Recipient Detail report now runs faster.
Messages sent by PROMODAG Reports are now copied in the Sent items folder of Outlook
HTML exports now handle names containing accents.
All secondary SMTP addresses were not listed in the Selected Attributes From Mailboxes report.
CSV export of multi-value fields was improved in the Selected Attributes From Mailboxes and Recipient Details reports.
The Email Rules report's layout was improved.
The Mailbox Traffic Cost Chargeback was modified to allow displaying a particularly large grand total.
A new PROMODAG Reports SQL database is now created with an SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation.
Information store types are now detected during the configuration wizard execution.
Import of recipients vith an identical legacyExchangeDN is now carried out with a method that avoids creating duplicates.
All local (accepted) SMTP domains were not, in certain circumstances, identified as such.
Version 8.5.0000 - December 11, 2008.
Corrections
Information stores default values were not correctly taken into account in the Mailbox Storage Information report.
The Item Breakdown by Age report does not work on particularly large mailboxes.
An overflow error occurred in the Mailbox Storage Information report if a very high storage warning limit was met.
Running several Mailbox by Traffic Level reports in one single batch job could lead to unexpected results, for the batch file was only able to use one single partners selection.
An overflow error occurred in the Mailbox Specific Content Estimation report if a very high storage warning limit was met.
Histograms of the Folder Size Comparison report did not display correctly.
 
Improvements
Local time no longer needs to be recalculated if time zone definitions are identical (e.g. Madrid, Paris and Amsterdam, Berlin are both 2 hours ahead of GMT).
The Information Store size import process has been improved.
Exchange message tracking files can now be imported from a workstation using non-Gregorian calendar settings.
Report operations are now also logged in interactive mode.
The Run a Group of Reports option has been revised and improved. Its interface is now more reactive.
It is now possible to count and view the names of public folders while their sizes are being imported.
The public folder size import process duration has been optimized.
A new method to link servers and AD sites has been implemented to take subnet overlapping into account.
Version 8.4.0000 - October 6, 2008.
Corrections
An error occurred when the report language was not set to the application language: "Error:System.IO.IOException: the process cannot access the file '...\RptStrings.txt' because it is being used by another process".
Some distribution groups appeared as used and unused in the Distribution Groups Usage report.
An error occurred when attempting to run any report: "Error: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array".
Report options files containing selections based on AD detailed properties were not properly converted.
Message template selections in the Output tab were not correctly loaded.
Changes in SQL authentication were not properly handled.
The 'Does not contain' operator did not work.
Filtering traffic by type of partner did not bring the expected results.
 
Improvements
A total is now available in the Find Specific Messages report.
A new mail item type has been added: RSSFeed.
A new recipient type has been added: Others.
IIS log files in UTF8 format (IIS 7) are now taken into account.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is now supported.
Version 8.3.0000 - August 7, 2008.
Corrections
The database upgrade failed with an error message: Invalid attempt to call FieldCount when reader is closed.
The 'Exclude deleted objects from reports' option did not work.
Filtering was not working properly in the Mailbox Storage Information report.
An error occurred in the Directory Objects report when selected objects were grouped by administrative group.
Sorting by number and by size were inverted in the Mailbox Storage Information report.
An error occurred when an empty MessageId field was met in an Exchange 2007 message tracking file.
Exclusions on storage groups were not taken into account in the Information Store Size Comparison report.
An error occurred in the Mailbox Traffic Cost Chargeback and Mailbox Storage Cost Chargeback reports when selected objects were grouped by administrative group of by server.
The Item Breakdown by Age report did not work properly if another time frame than Days was selected in the Intervals tab.
The Find Specific Messages report only retrieved one result per group if no detail level was selected.
The Mailbox Breakdown by Size report did not count mailboxes properly.
IAn error occurred if reports were exported to an non-existent network drive.
The < and > operators were inverted in the Public Folders Content and Mailbox Content reports.
A mysterious 'Load Report Failed' message appeared if too many separate reports had been requested. The error message has been made more explicit.
Selected objects were displayed several times in the Mailbox Storage Information report if the mailbox detail level was not selected.
It was not possible to import IIS virtual directories.
The Mailbox Content and Mailbox Folder Size reports did not display the folders count.
Reports on OWA and ActiveSync Activity did not take specific time slots into account.
The item types selection did not work properly in reports of the Mailbox Information group.
The scope criteria of dynamic distribution groups was not taken into account (attribute msExchDynamicDLBBaseDN).
An error occurred when exporting a report as a CSV file to a SharePoint document library.
Size was incorrectly calculated in the Mailbox Size Evolution and Mailbox Size Fluctuation reports.
Time intervals were not correctly interpreted in the Item Breakdown by Age report.
The Connector Flow Evolution and Connector Flow by Type reports displayed data for all recipient types.
 
Improvements
It is now possible to select different settings files (*.pri) in order to manage multiple configurations of PROMODAG Reports.
Speed of the General Mailbox Traffic report has been improved, especially when several partners are selected.
It is now possible to select item types to be analyzed in the Filter tab of the Performed Actions on Messages report.
MAPI Unicode fields are now taken into account, so that reports on content can exploit Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic characters.
The Exchange Connection tab in Tools > Options has been improved. The NT account is now requested first, and a new 'Suggest a mailbox' button automatically retrieves the mailbox associated with that NT account.
Four new reports on ActiveSync activity have been added.
PROMODAG Reports now checks whether the NT account used for the MAPI connection belongs to the Exchange Organization Administrators, or the Exchange View-Only Administrators groups.
Five new recipient types have been added: Dynamic distribution group, SMTP mailbox, System mailbox, Other system recipient, unknown recipient type.
Reports on content now display item creation date in local time (and not GMT).
A new shortcut menu allows users to run or to delete reports in the reports tree.
A new Recent Reports command has been added to the File menu.
It is now possible to exclude folders from a mailbox folders selections.
An index was added to the RECIPIENTS.Id_RecipientType to improve performance.
Version 8.2.0000 - May 7, 2008.
Corrections
The vertical scroll bar was partly hidden in the reports Selection tabs.
All reports were modified to allow a decent HTML export.
An error occurred in the Information Store Size Evolution report if results were grouped by Storage Group.
An error occurred when Exploring form was selected as report output format.
LDAP connection was not identified if the server was running Exchange Server 5.5.
The Compose for tab was not working.
 
Improvements
A Group tab was added to the Distribution Groups report.
A new option was added to the Compose for tab. It is now possible to directly email a report without having to store the message in the Outbox first.
The public folders selection method has been modified. PROMODAG Reports now only retrieves selected folders.
A previewed report can now be saved as a report options file (PRO), or as a snapshot (RPT).
Version 8.1.0000 - February 28, 2008.
Corrections
Some reports produced unreadable HTML exports.
Improvement and better diagnosis of directory import.
It is now possible to directly export reports in HTML format without creating subfolders.
A random error disrupted the optional message tracking files compression process following their import.
message tracking files could not be moved to another location after their import if this option was selected.
An error prevented the execution of storage size import in batch mode.
An irrelevant error message was displayed when using the Help > Technical Support request option.
email addresses containing inverted commas were not allocated to the right partner during message tracking files import.
The 'x previous months' selection in Period tab did not work properly.
Some time periods were missing in the Message Breakdown by Hour of the Day graph
Reports did not run in batch mode if the PRO file was located in a subfolder.
An error occurred in the Public Folders Content report if the folders selection included a name containing a @ or a \.
An error occurred in the Old Address Usage report if the Only Secondary Addresses box was checked.
 
Improvements
Promodag Reports version 7 batch files (*.prb) are now converted to version 8.
New report added to the Mailbox Information group: Appointment search
Change of CSV file format (UTF8) to accommodate Chinese characters.
Change of time zone definition (Venezuela only).
NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is now supported.
Version 8.0.0060 - December 4, 2007.
Corrections
Directory import was interrupted when an hostname's IP address was not found.
Fields 'Distinguish Name (Full)' and 'Email address (others)' did not return correct values.
Mailbox Content filtering did not return correct values.
Criteria 'Like' was not taken into account in Mailbox Attachment report.
Attachment types were not grouped in Mailbox Attachment report.
Inconsistent sorting interface in Mailbox Attachment report.
Incomplete selection criteria in Mailbox Attachment report.
'Invalid object Tmp_TBL_FINAL' error in Mailbox Traffic Evolution report.
"TOP N WITH TIES clause not allowed" error in Mailbox By Traffic Level report.
'Object not set' error in batch processing of Information Store Size import.
Non-Gregorian calendars were not properly taken into account in Traffic Log Files import.
Top was incorrectly taken into account in Mailbox By Traffic Level report.
Incorrect attachments filtering criteria in Mailbox Content report.
'Index out of range' error when starting a report.
A useless and disruptive backslash ('\') was added at the end of the Information Stores path.
'Index out of range' error when loading the IIS import form.
Duplicated DirectoryName/Container entries in Directory import.
Reports interface took a long time to load.
Syntax error on the TopN in graphs.
Bad management of Selection and Group options in reports: some criteria could not be reloaded, either in in interactive or in batch processing modes.
Incorrect formula in Mailbox by Traffic Level report.
Inefficient date filtering in Mailbox Content report.
Syntax error when the 'Separate report' box was checked in the Group tab of the Mailbox Traffic report.
Destination was not taken into account during conversion of report setting files from version 7 to version 8.
 
Improvements
Support for Exchange 2007 SP1.
The software now runs under Windows 64-bit platform.
Some warning and error messages have been reformated.
Mailbox selection consistency is now tested before the report runs.
A server can now be reallocated to the current console even if a running import is in progress on another console.
Version 8.0.0037 - October 16, 2007.
Initial Release
 
Version 7 History
Version 7.8.0000 - September 3, 2007.
Corrections
"error detected by export dll" returned while exporting reports to Excel format on Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Vista.
Only Gregorian calendar is supported.
Detail of Recipients report - custom recipients were not listed.
Directory import problem with empty administrative group.
Duplicated information stores when they were created with a previously existing name.
 
Improvements
Speed improvement while clearing data from database.
Support for .Net Framework version 2.
Mailboxes Storage Cost Chargeback new option "Free space" for billing.
Mailboxes Storage Cost Chargeback the number of mailboxes is displayed on the report.
Version 7.7.0000 - May 24, 2007.
Corrections
"Too many rows returned" error when running List of Mailboxes report.
Removed recipients in the directory are not marked as deleted in Promodag Reports when the directory is fully reimported.
Problem accessing Public Folders with Outlook 2007 installed.
Directory import problem with containers having a very long path name.
 
Known Issues
When  exporting reports to Excel format on Windows Server 2003 SP2 you get the following error message "error detected by export dll".  This a known Crystal Reports issue that is being investigated by Business Objects. Workaround is to uninstall SP2.
Version 7.6.0000 - February 14, 2007.
Improvements
New time zone file to manage daylight saving time date changes for United States and other countries.
New algorithm for managing time zones in order to comply with previous and future daylight saving time dates.
New report for appointment search for a given date range.
Better permission problem detection when importing the directory using an LDAP connection.
In "Access Rights to Mailboxes" report, a new function has been added. You can now exclude folders that have only default permissions.
 
Corrections
Date conversion error when running "Messages Forward and Reply" report in .NET framework 2.0 environment.
Synthesis reports help files were missing.
Some links to the help topics were not working.
Problem importing OWA logs files when more than one virtual server is detected
 
Known Issues
With Exchange 2003, if a recovery information store is mounted and contains mailboxes from another information store, these mailboxes will be detected twice when importing their size, thus doubling the size of the mailboxes in the report.
You can get around this problem by simply not mounting the recovery information store when importing the mailbox size.
Version 7.5.0002 - November 28, 2006.
Improvements
Memory usage improvement during directory import via LDAP.
Better memory release after a report is closed.
 
Corrections
Table already exists error in Find Specific Messages report when excluding recipients.
GetFullContainer error in Find Specific Messages report.
Detailed information missing when selecting the manager field in the Selected Info from Mailboxes report.
Distribution lists with names including a slash (/) not correctly imported.
Online help not working under Windows Vista.
Version 7.4.0003 - July 11, 2006.
Improvements
Mailboxes can be selected by storage group or information store.
The Find Specific Messages report will work on contact (custom) recipients.
Speed improvement for the Find Specific Messages report.
 
Corrections
"a column has been specified more than once" error in Public Folders Content report .
Problem sending reports to mailboxes.
No Internet data in Traffic Synthesis report when server's groups are used.
Default path for IIS logs is now Windows instead of Winnt.
Directory import problem with specifics characters in distribution list names.
Mailbox Activity report options were not well reloaded.
Traffic of Public Folders some recipients names where not shown.
Sort problem in Originators and Recipients report.
Version 7.3.0001 - March 30, 2006.
Improvements
The Mailbox Storage Cost Charge Back report has a new free space option.
Speed improvement for the List of Messages delivered report .
There is more available format when inserting a date in the filename of an exported report.
 
Corrections
Directory Import: new option when there is more than 500,000 recipients.
Directory Import: better handling for distribution list with more than 1,000 members.
Directory Import: problem with new or deleted info stores.
Help: some topics links where bad.
Contents of Mailboxes report: the calendar folder was not recognized.
CSV export: default separator initialized with workstation regional settings.
Reports: size of messages input is no more limited.
Reports: unable to open more tables.
Version 7.2.0003 - December 22, 2005.
Improvements
Microsoft SQL. Server 2005 support.
Support of Unicode characters in message subject during message tracking files import.
 
Corrections
Problems during IMC archives imports in batch mode.
Problems during IMC archives imports.
Detail of Internet traffic report bad display of message time.
Usage of old addresses SQL syntax error.
Hourly statistics problem with graph label.
Mailbox content report "Bad variable type"
Mailbox content "Object not set to an instance"
Traffic of partners overflow problem when too many domains are selected.
Version 7.0.139 - August 17, 2005.
Improvements
It is now possible to install the product if version 2 of the .Net framework is installed.
Mailbox and Public folder content reports have a trace mode that will enable better troubleshooting.
 
Corrections
Problems during database upgrade.
Problem for batch imports on an Access database.
Mailbox and Public folder content reports.
Version 7.0.119
Corrections
Synthesis export problem in standard edition
Find specific message report "Cannot insert explicit value..." error
Directory import might create duplicated recipients
Version 7.0.113
Improvements
Version 1 Synthesis databases are now upgraded to work with version 7
It is now possible to remove header or footer when exporting in XLS format
It is now possible to remove the text delimiter when exporting in CSV format
 
Corrections
Traffic of Partners report problem when selecting the top option
Report automation the report option file was not found if it was in a subdirectory of the batches directory
Origin and destination of Flows report the sort order was wrong
Problem with CSV export for the Synthesis group of reports
Tracking file import problem during address resolution with specifics mailboxes
Mailboxes size import incorrect syntax near the keyword "Where"
Version 7.0.108
Corrections
Tracking file import error during address resolution
Monthly traffic report the like text zone was not used
In some circumstances POP3 sent messages were added during tracking file import
Version 7.0.105
Improvements
The distribution list owner and custom attributes are imported with Ldap
It is now possible to import the information store size with Ldap 5.5 or Mapi directory connection
 
Corrections
Problem when saving a report if the root folder was clicked
"Error when connecting to exchange" in report's Output tab
Some mailboxes were not processed during the mailboxes size import
Error when detecting directory connection parameters if the detected AD server is not a GC
Timeout problem during tracking file import with SQL server
Version 7.0.101
Initial release
 
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