ChangeBASE December Maintenance Release

Welcome to the fifth edition of the ChangeBASE Maintenance Release newsletter.

This is part of our continual review and improvement process. Details of affected plugins and report groups are provided below.

If you are an existing user and wish to apply these upgrades, as recommended, you will need to visit the upgrade tab on the ChangeBASE Workbench.

Updated Add-in 

VReady-It (v1.0.017)

• Additional functionality is now available within ChangeBASE’s VReady-It tool to automatically create VMware ThinApp packages from native MSI installers.

New Plugin

Virtualisation - App-V group

Inaccessible Control Panel Detection (v1.03)

Virtualisation - Citrix XenApp – streamed group

Inaccessible Control Panel Detection (v1.03) 

Virtualisation - VMware ThinApp group

Inaccessible Control Panel Detection (v1.03)

• This new plugin detects Control Panel applets which will not be available when virtualised. A fix is available which creates a shortcut to the applet on the Start menu.

Updated Plugins 

IE8 group

Application Protocol Detection Analysis (v1.09)

• This plugin has been enhanced to reduce case sensitivity and therefore reduce the likelihood of reporting false positives.

ConvertIT Filters group

Basic Filters (v1.02)

• Additional filtering has been added to enable the creation of a cleaner MSI when using ChangeBASE’s Convert-It functionality.

RDX7 Windows XP SP3 group

Custom Action Security Scan (v3.16) 

Windows 7 group

Custom Action Security Scan (v3.16)

Windows Server 2008 group

Custom Action Security Scan (v3.16)

• This improved functionality prevents possible issues with user level Custom Actions.

Virtualisation - Citrix XenApp - hosted and MS RDS group

Host Detection (v1.06)

• The Host Detection functionality has been enhanced to more accurately identify IP addresses within packages.