It has been almost a year since we first launched the completely redesigned, almost built from scratch, version 3.0. There have been numerous enhancements and new features since the launch, but today we are happy to present the biggest upgrade among 3.X versions – Terminal Services Log 3.5.

Split reports on published applications and server desktops

All users connecting to Remote Desktop Services can be divided into two main groups – ones that use applications directly on the server (published apps in XenApp or RemoteApps in Remote Desktop Services) and others who have their full server desktops.

When one analyzed users and application activity with the previous version of Terminal Services Log, one could see the overall stats filter by certain criteria, but was not able to split the ones that use published apps or server desktops.

Not only that the newest Terminal Services Log  can split and filter the results, but it can also automatically detect all published applications and server desktops. That makes the new feature easy to use allowing you to filter only the sessions that use published apps.

Split report per Server desktop and Published apps only

Private and Global report views

Our customers wanted to create a predefined set of filters that would define servers as a logical farm, users as a logical organization et cetera. Such views could be save but every time you had to choose particular servers or users  yourself.

 New Session count report and Private/Global views allow you to create personalized views

User management like Remote Desktop Manager and Citrix AppCenter

Your are familiar with the Remote Desktop Manager or Citrix AppCenter. They enable you to manage users and applications, and we decided to implement some of their functionalities and enhance them in Terminal Services Log, making TSL more than a reporting software only.

Session management implemented in Terminal Service Log 3.5. lets you assist end users, help them use remote desktop and terminate applications on a single and group level. It provides much more flexibility than RD Manager or Citrix AppCenter by enabling you to filter only a few users, applications or servers and perform session log off on the server/group level or, for example, kill all Internet Explorers in your farm.

Session management allows you to manage al users and application across almonitored servers

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Product version:  3.5.9.41105
Build number: 41101
Database version: 3.5.4.41101
Release date: Monday, November 7, 2011

Other new features

• Session count report provides the same data as the Dashboard, counting all users across all servers displaying load per sessions in your farm.
• Performance report that allows you to monitor hard disk utilization.
• Merged report that combines user activities and applications in one place.
• Ability to configure a real-time alert when servers go offline.
• Option to select one e-mail to be sent daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly with a single schedule.
• Choose which day of the week will be your starting day for receiving weekly reports.
• Configurable empty e-mail, sent if there was no activity on the servers.
• Check all server statuses at once with the server tab.
• Warning about exceeding the database limit on Microsoft SQL Express.

Bug fixes

• XLSX formatting was in a number format.
• Adding users from the domain was slow, now there is a progress bar with import status.
• Sometimes user activity would be zero.
• You couldn’t import users that had special characters in the name.
• You couldn’t search in OUs that had special characters in the name.
• Anonymous sessions wouldn’t work correctly in the Professional Edition.
• Export to Excel pivot in custom reports with time spent had issues.
• CPU utilization sometimes was over 100% because of the bug in Windows performance counters.
• Huge SQL database would sometimes timeout  on upgrade.
• When you disabled a  job, the  job would actually .
• Session type filter was not working on the Dashboard.

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We’ve shipped Terminal Services Log 3.4.0. It’s one of the “major releases”. The most important new feature is better filtering and ability to combine multiple filters with multiple selections in custom reports.

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Product version: 3.4.0.40715
Build number: 40715
Database version: 3.3.7.40615
Release date: September 1st 2011

Features

• New custom reports conditions for better filtering of the reports. New filters include weekdays and organization units
• Ability to use multiple conditions under same filter

Bug fixes

• AD import for some domains was not working
• Servers would go offline if AD import was enabled

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We’ve shipped Terminal Services Log 3.3.6. It’s one of the “major releases”. The most important new feature is Performance Counters management User Interface.

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Product version: 3.3.6.40607
Build number: 40607
Database version: 3.3.2.40506
Release date: June 7th 2011

Features

• New performance counters management that allows you to easily manage performance counters across entire farm, allows you to recreate performance counters, start, stop and check status
• Organization unit filter is now hierarchical and reflects Active Directory tree structure

Enhancements

• You can now select up to 365 day range for most reports
• Session log ignores disconnected states showing more precise data
• The system checks server name against Active Directory when adding the server manually
• Users can cancel loading of huge reports
• Export to Excel now has the same column order as on the screen

Bug fixes

• Changing user permissions was not propagated to the underlying database
• Users could not edit username of a user
• Pivot table issues when resizing reports grid
• SQL date/time conversion to Spanish SQL server was not working correctly
• Some reports would show multiple values on daily memory performance reports when the user selected multiple days
• Only Administrators could launch Configuration Wizard and change SMTP settings
• If “Check now” command was executed some servers could be disabled
• There was an additional entry when the user changed states from Active to Disconnected
• PDF export was not formatted correctly
• Excel export was missing footer on User Activity reports
• Pivot table horizontal scroll was not working
• One could enable Anonymous  sessions and Role based security at the same time
• The system could not delete performance counters when console was running on Windows 2003
• Sorting fixed for multiple reports

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We’ve shipped Terminal Services Log 3.2.3. It’s one of the “minor releases”, with small improvements and bug fixes. Click here to download new release.

Product version: 3.2.3.40430
Build number: 40430
Database version: 3.2.0.40228
Release date: April 20th 2011.

Bug fixes

• Network traffic for Remote Desktop Gateway was not calculated correctly if a user disconnected the session
• In certain situations the information about disabled users was not propagated from AD to Terminal Services Log
• On Chinese simplified Windows operating system you could not use Custom Reports wizard
• When importing data from Active Directory, organizational units were marked as security groups
• A user could be assigned to an unknown OU
• The collector service could get stuck while gathering data

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We’ve shipped Terminal Services Log 3.2.0. It’s one of the “minor releases”, yet it brings some very exciting new features, improvements and bug fixes. Click here to download new release.

Product version: 3.2.1.40401
Build number: 40401
Database version: 3.2.0.40228
Release date: March 28th 2011.

Features

• You can now track licenses for application suites like Microsoft Office
• Administrators can define custom security for users in Viewer role, allowing them to view only data (user activities) for their OU or OUs defined by Administrator (Enterprise Edition Only)
• Custom Reports now support Charts and Pivots (Enterprise Edition Only)
• New Filter! Custom Group – create your own custom groups and use this filter to filter data regarding group members
• New Drill-Down Reports! Application Processor Performance Details and Application Working Set Performance Details

Enhancements

• You can now search values that are being displayed in filters
• Organizational Unit filter now displays organizational units as hierarchy
• Improved overall UI responsiveness
• Improved performance of System Jobs (Concurrent Usage, Aggregation)
• You can now start the Configuration Wizard from the Start Menu
• Improved performance of Simple  Session Log chart with large amounts of data
• You can add new servers by typing the name directly instead of usingwizard
• Custom Reports can be saved to different categories

Bug fixes

• You could not  import a custom report if there was already a report with the same name.
• When importing servers from large Active Directory application freezes while importing.
• If TSL service started while SQL Server was offline the service would not start collecting data when SQL awoke.
• The service could timeout while trying to send scheduled emails.
• Filter values were not being refreshed while the application was running.
• If you unchecked all series on dashboard the error message was shown.
• Working Hour preferences were not adjusted to regional settings hour format..
• If server being monitored and SQL Server were in different time zones the application might have produced inaccurate reports.
• Logon Audit report showed additional filters that were not being used.
• Dashboard was not being displayed correctly if user reversed Y-Axis.
• When user was not authorized to connect to the SQL Server application displayed SQL Offline warning instead.
• Fixed display issues with the dialog being displayed when user did not have permissions to run the application.
• Data in Session Log Summary Report chart was not being ordered by time.
• Could not save Farm Performance Reports as bar or pie charts.
• Right-click in File Path management dialog caused Exception.
• You could not close Dashboard properties without choosing an option from the context menu.
• In case of service failure sessions could overflow to the following day.
• Reports with multiple series allowed you to display data as pie chart.
• During AD imports, Organizational Units are imported as Security Groups.
• Organizational Unit filter does not work on User Performance Reports (User Processor Performance by Hour, User Working Set Performance by Hour).

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We’ve shipped Terminal Services Log 3.0.8. It’s one of the “service releases” with bug fixes and minor improvements. Click here to download new release.

Product version: 3.0.8
Build number: 31217
Database version: 3.0.8.31217
Release date: December 17th 2010.

Features

• None

Enhancements

Bug fixes

• Fixed issues with grouping of reports with Min, Max and Average series
• Fixed issue when SQL Compact was used as database backend, emails could not be sent
• Fixed issue with Application Usage Summary Report, it would not show chart if ApplicationName was equal to empty string
• Fixed issue with default sorting for Application Usage History, the report was sorted as string not as date values

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