 Hyena v11.2 Released
Hyena v11.2 is now available for downloading. Hyena v11.2 adds new features to the integrated 'Active Task' and 'Active Editor' components. See below for more details.
Hyena v11.2 is available as a free update if your maintenance expiration date is after November 15, 2014. See the 'Hyena Maintenance' topic below for information on updating and how to check the maintenance expiration date. Any customer which purchased a Hyena v11.0 license is eligible for a free upgrade to v11.2 as well.
 Hyena's new Active Task feature, introduced in v11.0, has been a very popular feature addition for many Hyena users. Hyena v11.2 adds several additional features, including allow group member changes when creating or updating Active Directory objects. Using a template-based model, groups can be added, removed, or any combination when processing Active Directory tasks.
Also added were options to view and manage task Validation files.
Other changes in Hyena v11.2 include:
- 'Active Editor' changes include optionally allowing data to be processed that contains errors and a new 'Search and Replace' function for text values.
- 'Add Domain to View' function modified to only support Active Directory domains.
- Added option to copy EVTX-based events to clipboard.
- View NTFS Permissions' function supports showing/skipping inherited file permissions.
- Added additional values to the 'MsExchRecipientDisplayType' values.
- Enabled the scheduled task and EVTX-based event functions to use the 'Logon As' credentials entered for a computer/server.
- Dozens of other small corrections and enhancements, which also have been incorporated into v11.0 (see below)
Hyena v11.0 Updated to rev 'G'
Hyena v11.0 has been updated to rev 'G' and is now available for downloading.
A full revision history of all Hyena v11.0 updates follows. Note that all of these changes are also part of Hyena v11.2.
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Rev 'B' - Added the EVTX event channel (log) name to the error message when opening the channel so that inaccessible channels could be determined for better troubleshooting.
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Rev 'B' - Corrected program crash when attempting to view the GPOs assigned to an OU which had one or more 'inaccessible' policies assigned. Inaccessible policies will be displayed with the name 'inaccessible'. This situation can occur when the policy cannot be opened, usually due to security restrictions on the account running Hyena.
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Rev 'B' - Fixed display issue when multiple Exchange 2010/2013 domain server assignment templates were configured.
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Rev 'B' - Modified the Active Task function to allow importing and modifying the object class.
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Rev 'C' - Corrected a naming issue when creating new Active Directory organizational units (OUs) using Active Task.
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Rev 'C' - Changed behavior for Exchange Properties to optionally warn about object not being mail-enabled.
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Rev 'C' - Allowed the standard computer context menu to be displayed when a mix of computers and domain controllers are selected.
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Rev 'C' - (Active Task) Enabled the 'Remove' button on user-defined fields for group member management tasks.
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Rev 'C' - (Active Task) Validated (if enabled) the directory path if the WinNT: provider is used for group member-task types.
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Rev 'C' - (Active Task) Defaulted the provider (LDAP: or WinNT:) for the %MEMBER_PATH% symbol.
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Rev 'C' - (Active Task) Disabled validating target container unless validation turned on.
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Rev 'D' - Added new advanced settings for controlling the display of binary Active Directory data on SIDs, GUIDs, and other binary data. See the Advanced Settings topic in Hyena's help file (SidDisplayFormat, GuidDisplayFormat, and BinaryDisplayFormat) for more information.
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Rev 'D' - Added new advanced setting for controlling the display of the group type for Active Directory groups (grouptype attribute). Options include the default friendly display name, raw numeric value, or the same value as used in the Active Task and Active Editor components. See the Advanced Settings topic in Hyena's help file (GroupTypeDisplayFormat) for more information.
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Rev 'D' - Modified the Active Editor to allow editing the group type attribute, including entering in negative numbers for integer values.
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Rev 'D' - Modified the filter capabilities in Exporter Pro to allow more free use of wildcards (* and ?) in file names filters.
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Rev 'E' - Modified Group Properties dialog to allow more than 255 characters in the description field
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Rev 'E' - Displayed msExchRecipientDisplayType as numeric value when it cannot be interpreted
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Rev 'E' - Corrected internal routines to not convert SID into other formats when using alternate display settings for SIDs.
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Rev 'E' - Added additional step to register systemtools_psi.dll from the v4.0 framework directory
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Rev 'E' - When viewing computer Properties, Hyena will now display the svcVersion and svcUpdateVersion for newer versions of Internet Explorer.
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Rev 'E' - Fixed the internal override for displaying OU/containers in the tree window to always show the name and description for sub-containers, regardless of the directory attributes used for the default query.
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Rev 'E' - Added additional information to error display of the SystemTools Update Checker when an error is encountered reading the information from systemtools.com regarding the current version.
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Rev 'E' - Added new validation options for User Principal Names (UPNs): ValidateUserLogonUpn and ValidateDuplicateUserLogonUpn. For more information on these settings, see the Advanced Settings topic in Hyena's help file.
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Rev 'F' - Changed the share caching options to only modify client-side cache settings and not affect other settings that may be used by other applications.
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Rev 'F' - Reduced the size of the areas on the User Properties > General dialog that can be clicked on (the whitespace area) that would turn on/off the check boxes for several user settings. This prevents a setting from being changed inadvertently when the right-most side of the dialog is clicked in.
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Rev 'G' - Corrected a problem with the 'ValidateUserLogonUpn' setting that caused a validation failure for existing accounts when the user UPN was not updated or viewed.
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Rev 'G' - Enabled usage of Hyena's internal object picker when using the Account Functions > Add/Remove from Group... option and the Advanced Setting 'UseHyenaObjectPicker' is set to True.
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