Promodag Reports: Einfaches Reporting für Microsoft Exchange Server

Corrections
The options 'Total' and 'Grand total' of the General Public Folder Traffic report's Group tab did not work.
An 'open message store failed' exception occurred when running a report using the Run a Group of Reports option.
The size of attachments was not displayed in the Message Attachments report.
All mailboxes seemed to be inaccessible when running reports using the Run a Group of Reports option if the Exchange MAPI Client & CDO 1.2.1 was installed on the machine.
An error occurred when a filter was added or modified in the Message Delivery Detail report.
Message size was multiplied by the number of recipients in the report General Mailbox Traffic when the level of detail was set to 'Message'.
Message size was multiplied by the number of recipients in the report General Public Folder Traffic when the level of detail was set to 'Message'.
The PowerShell command used to retrieve the size of public folders from Exchange 2010 servers only listed the first 100 folders.
Recipient attributes were not updated if character case only was modified.
No warning was logged during directory import when a LegacyExchangeDN was assigned to several recipients of the System Objects container.
The Mailbox Folder Size report was not generated if a filter 'item count <=0' was set.
An 'Error in query' exception occurred in all reports that have a Correspondents tab if a first-level domain was selected.
A specific account set to establish a MAPI connection to Exchange was also used to run PowerShell commands on Exchange 2010.
Various error messages could occur regularly if, at one stage, a directory import had been abruptly interrupted.
Dynamic distribution groups based on an identical LDAP query are now imported using a faster method.
The information provided on database size before compaction was inaccurate.
The figures given in the Correspondents by Traffic Level report were incorrect.
The Server Traffic Growth report ignored address type filtering for sent messages.
The sent message count given in the Server Traffic by Recipient Type report was incorrect.
The field dedicated to Item count, grand total in the Mailbox Storage Information report was too narrow.

Corrections
A '(400) Bad Request' error message occurred when exporting a report to SharePoint if the filename contained some specific characters.
Mailbox size appeared in Bytes in the CSV export of the Selected Attributes From Mailboxes report.
An error occurred during directory import if a dynamic distribution group was found to be based on a LDAP query containing an invalid filter.
PROMODAG Reports crashed and lost its configuration when a scheduled task attempted to use a non-existent batch file.
A 'Conversion from string "" to type 'Double' is not valid' error message occurred when modifying percentages in the Cost Allocation report.

Corrections
A 'Cannot insert duplicate key' exception message appeared when creating a new database using the current database information.
An ' Error in query' exception message occurred if the recipient domain was filtered.
A query of the Mailbox Breakdown by Delivery Time report did not complete and caused a large increase of the TEMPDB system database.
A 'There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command' exception message message could occur in certain circumstances during IIS log import.
A "GetMailboxTable failed: SyncError" exception message occurred when running the Mailbox Storage Information report if an Exchange 2010 server was selected.
Some menu items used the same shortcuts in German and in French.
Partial IIS log imports were not completed during the next import.
It was not possible to select an OU whose name contains a quote.
A 'System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set' exception message could occur in certain circumstances during directory import (dynamic distribution groups import).

Improvements
Formatting of the Message Attachments report has been improved.
The SamAccount search query started during IIS log file import was slow.
The IIS log file import progress indicator has been improved.
The IIS log file import method has been improved.
The warning 'the DELIVER event at line x does not contain…' is no longer recorded into trace files.
The IIS log file import history window was very slow to open.
Formatting of the address type (partner) selection window has been improved.
The MAPI client libraries detection method has been improved.
Address type labels can now be modified according to report language.

Corrections
CAS Exchange 2010 servers are now properly resolved in the Exchange Connection settings dialog box.
Mixed formats (UPN and classic) of cs-usernames are now taken into account.
A 'NullReferenceException' error message occurred in the configuration wizard when server access was tested for storage size import.
A 'Conversion from type 'DBNull' to type 'String' is not valid' error message occurred when displaying the license details in Help > License.
The warning message explaining that Exchange Admin groups have not been found is no longer displayed in red letters.
Servers marked as deleted do no longer appear in the license window if the 'Show deleted objects in the interface' parameter is disabled.
A 'System.NullReferenceException' error message could, in certain circumstances, occur during IIS log file import.
The SMTP Address Usage report did not systematically discover secondary SMTP addresses.
An 'Exception finding cluster nodes Invalid query' error message occurred during directory import if the name of a storage group contained a quote.
Message tracking file import status was set to 'Processing ' in the import history if the import process was abruptly interrupted.
An 'InvalidOperationException' error message could appear at the end of message tracking file import into an Access database.
A 'System.NullReference' error message interrupted the Mailbox by Traffic Level report when selecting a top.
Selections of cs-usernames were not reloaded in OWA & ActiveSync activity report options files.
The 'Processing' status is now cleared from message tracking files in the database once the console's status is different of 'Running'.
The field separator was not tested when a previewed report was exported to CSV.
A 'System.InvalidCastException' error message appeared when attempting to create a sub-folder to save selections.

Improvements
Languages using Unicode characters (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Greek…) are now also supported if using a SQL database.
The trace file logging process has been globally improved, particularly when it comes to data import.
Performances of the Find Specific Messages report have been improved, particularly filtering options.
PROMODAG Reports is now able to discover the active node of a clustered server hosting a renamed database.
Date controls have been modified in the Import Message Tracking Files and Import Internet Information Files dialog boxes.
The label 'Active Directory Container' has been renamed 'Organizational Unit' in the drop-down lists of the Selection and Group tabs.
The Mailbox Storage Information report now uses the term 'quota' rather than 'limit'.
'Register' has been replaced by 'License' all over the application.
The Inter-Group Traffic report now displays the number and the volume of messages.
Labels linked to objects marked as deleted have been entirely revised.
The 'Clear Directory' option has been renamed 'Purge Data Imports' and all related labels have been revised.
PROMODAG Reports uses PowerShell to import the size of mailboxes from Exchange 2010.
The presence and version of installed MAPI client libraries are now tested when the application is started.
The Outlook profile created by PROMODAG Reports are now more explicitely named.
The layout and functionalities of the Old Address Usage report has been entirely revised. This report has been renamed SMTP Address Usage.
It is now possible to indicate an empty domain name in a server's Properties sheet.
The report on Non Delivery Reports now displays complete e-mail addresses if message detail is selected.
It is now possible to indicate an empty path in a server's Properties sheet.
Reports do no longer group mailboxes at the Exchange organization level if no grouping has been selected.
Objects selection and exclusion lists are now saved explicitely as such.
The Partners tab has been renamed Correspondents and its content has been entirely revised.
'Partner type' is now called 'Address type'.
Exchange 2010 is now supported.
The 'Clear Imports' option has been nenamed 'Purge History'.
A message now appears in the Exchange Connection tab of Tools > Options if MAPI client libraries installed on the workstation do not support impersonation.
A new licensing system has been introduced.
It is now possible to enter several SMTP addresses in the Old Address Usage report.
It is now possible to count multiple sendings as 1 in the Find Specific Messages report.
PROMODAG Reports imports some new attributes linked to mailboxes.
Detail options of the Mailbox Storage Information report have been entirely rearranged.
PROMODAG Reports does no longer display all available partner/address types in the address type selection list.
A new option in the General tab of Tools > Option now allows to display all address types.
It is now possible to select SMTP domains or administrative groups in the Find Specific Messages report.

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
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 labels 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 label 'No grouping' now replaces 'Organization' in the Group tab.

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.
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 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.

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 rather unclear message was added to trace files when a report option file included in a batch contained the 'Destination: Screen' option.
A Null Reference error message occurred in the Public Folders Content report when an inaccessible public folder was met.

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 adresses 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.
It is now possible to modify reports' titles.

Corrections
Filtering by type of items did not work in the Mailbox Content Summary report.
The total count of mailboxes was not correct in the General Mailbox Traffic report.
Axis label remained in French in the Mailbox Traffic Evolution report, whatever the selected language was.
Mailboxes with no Last Logon attribute did not appear in the Mailbox Storage Information report.
An SQL error occurred during message tracking files import in batch mode when an administrative group's name contained an apostrophe.
No filter was working in the Mailbox Content report if one of them contained a keyword search that was too long.
The Mailbox Storage Information report allocated an incorrect Last Logon attribute (01/01/1900) to mailboxes that had never sent any message, but that had sent some.
Week numbers were incorrect in some reports.
Some recipients were duplicated in the CSV export of the Recipient Detail report.
Some objects marked as deleted could still appear in the interface even if the relevant option was selected in the View menu.
Some objects marked as deleted could still appear in reports even if they were expressly excluded.
Mailboxes with no rules appeared as inaccessible in the Email Rules report.
Email alerts were not always sent.
The Performed Actions on Messages could calculate, in certain circumstances, a totally unrealistic average age of messages.
The Performed Actions on Messages could detect, in certain circumstances, some mailboxes as inaccessible.
It was impossible to reload a selection file located in a subfolder of the default directory.

Improvements
Local time does no longer need to be recalculated if time zone definitions are identical (e.g. Madrid, Paris and Amsterdam, Berlin are both 2 hours ahead of GMT).
The ADSTORES import process has been improved.
Exchange 5.5 and 2000 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.

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
Definitions of all reports have been entirely rewritten.
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 tha 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 diplay 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.

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 or 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 mailboxe properly.
An error occurred if reports were exported to an non-existent network drive.
The '< 'and '>' 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 and the Item Breakdown by Size reports.
The Connector Flow Evolution and Connector Flow by Type reports displayed data for all recipient types.

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).
The Selected Information from Mailboxes report is now called Selected Attributes from Mailboxes.
The Criteria tab is now called Filter.
'detailed properties' are now called 'additional directory attributes'.
Subjects decoding has been improved.
The application is now available in German language.
A new report has been added to the Billing group of reports: Cost Allocation.
SMTP address has been added to the available recipient types of the Selection and Correspondent tabs in the Find Specific Messages report.
Dynamic (or query-based) distribution groups are now taken into account.
The documentation was entirely rewritten.

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.
The CSV export gave incorrect recipients details.
LDAP connection was not identified if the server was running Exchange Server 5.5.
The Compose for tab was not working.
Results were incorrect in the Mailbox Size Breakdown report.
An irrelevant warning message systematically appeared if information stores were selected by storage group in the Information Store Size Evolution/Comparison reports.
Selection did not work properly in the Public Folders Content report.
The database size systematically reached its authorized limit if the Message Delivery Status report was run.
The application locked when attempting to import the size of information stores.
The 'Not Like' logical operator was not working in the General Mailbox Traffic report.
An 'Index Out of range' error occurred in any report of the Public Folder Information group.
The destination output to SharePoint was neither recorded in the report options file, nor retrieved when report was reloaded.
A new method has been implemented to go through hierarchy tables (mainly used to obtain a list of public folders).
The library URL was not recorded, and MHT export was not working when destination output to SharePoint was selected.

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.