SystemTools 'ToolNews' - December 21, 2022

1. News
• Hyena v15.0 Preview Available
2. Hyena Upgrade Policy
3. Keeping in Touch
• Help us keep you informed
• Help us spread the word !
4. Contact Information

Hyena v15.0 Preview Available

Hyena v15.0 is now available as a pre-release in English x64. We anticipate having the final release ready in January of 2023 in French, German and Spanish in both x86 and x64.

Hyena v15.0 is both a major release and our official 'Silver Anniversary' Edition. Hyena v1.0 was originally released in 1997. The two main features in this release are Grouping and new Group Member query enhancements:

Grouping - Hyena v15.0 provides an innovative Grouping feature for all window contents.  This feature, similar to a Microsoft Excel pivot table, provides sub-totals for any grouped column.  This new capability is available for any results displayed in Hyena's right window, including any Active Directory query.  Individual groups can be selectively expanded or collapsed, with sub-totals provided for the number of objects in each group as well as the number of groups.

Temporary Group Member Support - Windows Server 2016 added the capability to assign group memberships temporarily. Hyena v15.0 now supports both assigning members to groups temporarily as well as viewing the remaining TTL value.

Optional Primary Group Retrieval - Individual group member queries can now optionally not retrieve primary group information, which can have a substantial increase in query retrieval performance.

Important Note: Existing licensed users must have a free update expiration date after December 1, 2022 to run this preview release. See the Settings > Licensing dialog to see the free upgrade availability date.

Hyena v15.0 can be downloaded from our v15.0 Preview Page here:

https://www.systemtools.com/hyena/hyena15.html

Other Changes Include:

• Added support for updating large integer values to 'Manage Directory Attributes' function and the Active Editor
• Added support for ADSTYPE_PRINTABLE_STRING multi-valued attributes to Active Task
• Increased maximum AD queries to 399 from 299
• Added support for running AD queries against multiple OUs in object groupings from the right window
• Fixed issue with viewing open files on non-Windows servers that did not properly handle the Windows Open Files API function
• Added option to edit OU query targets
• Improved performance to save AD query changes when only query ordering was modified
• Added several advanced settings to complement new features, including TTLDisplayFormat, ShowTempMembersIconOnProperties, and DoNotShowPrimaryGroupsInProperties.  See the Advanced Settings topic in Hyena's help file for more information on these new advanced settings.

See Hyena's Help file 'Whats New' section for links to the help topics on these new features.

Starting in November of 2020, SystemTools modified our maintenance and upgrade policies going forward for all future sales. The annual software maintenance renewals were discontinued in exchange for upgrades, which now offer a full two (2) years of future free updates. The cost to upgrade, 50% of the new license cost, has not been changed.

What also has not changed is that our software license itself is still perpetual, including any version that was active at the time of purchase or renewal, plus any future versions through the free update period.

For example, if a 3-user Enterprise license is upgraded today for $430, the free update period would expire on or near December 21, 2024. Any software updates released prior to this date would be free and can be used perpetually.

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Help us spread the word !

For 25 years Hyena has helped tens of thousands of IT managers, administrators, help desk personnel, and auditors simplify the management and reporting of Windows. We have found over and over that the number one source of newcomers to our products has come from word-of-mouth of other happy users. The entire SystemTools Software family and community would very much appreciate it if you would mention Hyena to friends and associates that you feel could use it to simplify their jobs as well.

As our user base has grown, the amount and quality of feature recommendations has grown as well, making for an even better product for existing and future users. Simply put, the more we grow the exposure of SystemTools Software products, the more return you get from your investment.

Thank you for your help in keeping Hyena improving and growing !

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