News

• new:
- Support URL masks for keystrokes tracking
• fixed:
- Fixed socket errors that caused input lags in offline mode ( on client connection attempts)
- Screen blurring issue fix for multi monitors

• fixed:
- Security Hot Fix

• new:
- Demo Mode: usage scenarios for demo account

• fixed:
- Syncing Cloud and On-Premises Dashboard versions

• fixed:
- On-Premise SMTP settings: Send test email button for testing SMTP settings without applying them

• new:
- Account Settings: IP-based access control lists
- Filter Emails report by attachments
• fixed:
- Scheduled Reports: disabled Run Now feature for Lost report type

• new:
- Timeline-based time tracking system, no time discrepancies between reports any more

• fixed:
- User Scheduled Tab: fixed apply of schedule presets
- Monitoring profiles: correcting examples in tooltip
- Fullscreen recording: permission fix
- Schedule components: fixed styling and behavior of disabled elements
- Client Download Popup issue on Sessions page: click on tabs in popup was intercepted by sessions tab navigation
- User Productivity Digest: fixed markup bug with more than 1 user session displayed
- Detailed Activities: using prev parameter instead offset for infinite scroll

• new:
- Chart drilldowns to productivity, activities and categories charts
- What`s on this page: Now on each page users can take quick tour through UI elements and Controlio mechanics
- Scheduled Reports: run chosen report for selected time like it would be run in the past
• fixed:
- Lighter fonts for form elements and checkboxes
- Change Password modal: fixed markup and form behavior which caused page reload

• new:
- Collecting reviews popup
- Added notes for 'No Data' message in the Logons session table.
- Updated the ToggleSwitch and control labels in Sessions, Attendance and Keystrokes reports
• fixed:
- Activity Type Filter: fixed legacy bug when the level might be set with to display all levels, which caused a validation failure in the export
- Client Download Popup: removed the third installation option from macOs tab.
- Api Token Form Popup: fixed closing behavior
- Monitoring Profiles: Idle sensitivity list line breaks

• new:
- Layout: show dashboard version in the bottom of the sidebar as a link to news and updates (from knowledge base)
- Data API: Stage 2, implemented all CRUD operations and custom endpoints operations with validations, API Docs updated
• fixed:
- Account Removal: feedback page crashed after redirecting after account deletion

• new: blurring of excepted app/web window for screen recordings

• new: offline mode on/off support
• new: don't track URLs if websites tracking is disabled, track web time for web browser as an app

• new: apps detailed tracking is based on window focus start-end (Similar to websites)
• new: identification of OS versions Windows 11, Server 2019, 2022 in the Computers list
• fix: outlook.com attachments tracking errors
• fix: the tracking agent (wemonc.exe) used to run before the Desktop (progman window) is created
• fix: file operations monitoring did not stop when monitoring is stopped by user (from the tray icon) or monitoring schedule
• fix: client auto-update download keeps repeating.

• new:
- Monitoring profiles: added offline mode option (General tab), related to icon_mode: if icon_mode is on - disabled and force set to true.
- Account Settings: added API token tab to create, list and revoke personal tokes
- API token modal forms (create, show token content)
- Audit log: Added interface type filter (Browser/API)
- Account settings: change/remove Controlio logo for PDF reports

• changed:
- Scheduled Reports Job: general tab markup
- Scheduled Reports Job: hours/weekdays presets, set max limits if limits was changed
- Monitoring profiles: Stealth option component changed to toggle and changed localization, hint added
- Report exports: refactored and simplified exports logic. Rejected usage of methods in favor of report type, let server decide which method to use.
- Account settings: refactored containers structure and routes

• fixed:
- Sessions - Activity: fixed toolbar markup
- Tabs: fixed possible issues when there was no active element which might cause rendering problems
- User Form: fixed over-height of the form
- Video export download failed issue: fixed bug in s3url when sync signed url request with expired s3params became async during credentials update

• new: Sessions - Activity: added aggregation by user toggle
• new: Range Selector: added array type range support for value and on change result
• new: Scheduled Reports: added copy report job functionality
• new: Scheduled Reports: User cumulative report now available in pdf, added activities per day parameter
• changed: Sessions - Activity: working hours parameter changed to hours for unification of request params
• changed: Scheduled Reports: export limits for pdf changed from 1000 to 5000, 1000 for html
• changed: Rules: more specific about events with timers.
• changed: PieCharts: corrected palette brightness
• fixed: Productivity Report export: fixed sort list
• removed: Scheduled Reports Job: removed toggle to enable/disable use of default limit, setting default limit as value now

• fix: new versions of MS Outlook tracking
• fix: Firefox tracking lag
• fix: web filter driver update
• fix: sql script not running with error on 'printerid' for case sensitive sql engines

• fix: added user-blocked state file handling
• fix: retrieving user name fix (on fast user logon)
• fix: web filtering driver update
• fix: MS Outlook security messages

• new: export cumulative report from user productivity digest page
• new: Draw config for scheduled reports: columns multi-select, page orientation
• new: page orientation presets for all PDF reports

• new: Web filter settings in Monitoring Profiles
• new: Activity type filter support for Activities scheduled report
• new: hours and weekdays selector
• new: Draw config for scheduled reports: limit rows, order by
• new: templates for PDF and HTML scheduled reports
• new: data export security enhancements for PDF and CSV

• new: Behavior Rules triggers and save screen settings
• new: Employee access role for self-monitoring
• new: bulk Employees access roles export from csv

• new: support of disconnect on monitoring stopped
• fix: behavior rules hot reload
• fix: crlf symbols in behavior rule action message

• fix: TLS 1.2 support for send email
• fix: EnumPrinters fails RPC server unavailable
• fix: web filter driver update

• new: new behavior rules settings support (delays, screen recording)
• new: proxy support for on-premises mode
• new: auto mode for video max width support for big displays
• new: TLS 1.2 support
• fix: web filter driver update that fixes BSODs with some antiviruses and proxies
• fix: attendance (user activity table) tracking of apps that run for a long time
• fix: incorrect chars captures from search requests
• fix: local files tracking in Chrome (URL extraction from Chrome with file:/// protocol)
• fix: disable printer monitoring, keylogging, web filtering if user is not monitored or monitoring is stopped
• fix: files tracking - ignore folder renaming notification with equal paths -other minor changes

• new: User Productivity page
• update: macOS agent beta install/uninstall/update issues

• new: macOS agent beta released
• new: Advanced admin role with audit log access
• new: Idle period app/web tracking for attendance report

• new: Improved access policies for managers
• new: User/Department-based monitoring schedules
• new: custom idle sensitivity for meeting apps
• new: Behavior Rules for logon/Logoff, monitoring start/stop, user idle/active
• new: screen auto-width recording mode for multi-display computers
• fix: Demo mode enhancements
• fix: auto-categorization updates
• fix: mixed mode bars fix

• fix: wemon crash on start (zlib error)
• fix: get rid of zombie wemon processes

• new: User/Department-based categories
• new: Detailed Category/Activity page
• fix: User online status update bug
• fix: Upper Case Online Sessions
• fix: Video Player DataPicker next/prev bug
• fix: Cannot disable snapshots with disabled Screen recording
• fix: Email does not open, html attributes issue

• new: Sessions by Activity report
• fix: Attendance report accuracy issues

• new: WE Console User Interface
• new: full Unicode support

• fix: Firefox v70+ tracking
• fix: records with empty activity name

• fix: MS Edge v44 tracking
• fix: Firefox v69 tracking
• fix: web filtering driver issues
• fix: other minor changes

• new: Google Hangouts chats capture
• fix: Gmail emails, facebook chats tracking
• fix: new MS Outlook versions support
• fix: multi-regional screenshot names support
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: RDP server connection issues
• fix: tracking of some MS Outlook versions
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: FileZIllaServer module update to v.0.9.60, fixes some issues
• fix: scheduled reports template fix
• fix: MS Outlook warning messages
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: attendance data not sent on user log off
• fix: latest versions of MS Outlook emails capture
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: ole errors on chrome tracking
• fix: do not track active time on winlogon
• fix: latest versions of MS Outlook emails capture
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: latest versions of MS Outlook emails capture
• fix: smtp settings updated
• fix: linked screens resize errors
• fix: other minor changes

• new: linked screens view from reports
• new: screens viewer window
• fix: MS Excel document file path tracking for multiple instances
• fix: other minor changes

• new: printing jobs report
• new: file uploads report
• new: report menus re-design
• new: show active client licenses in WE Server Manager
• new: show server version in WE Server Manager
• fix: keystrokes typing lag
• fix: applying lots of web filtering rules were hanging weServerMessenger
• fix: errors in web filtering - client stopped
• fix: errors in web filtering - tls issues
• fix: delete old screens with both '.' and ',' filename delimiters
• fix: other minor changes

• new: save screenshots from WE Console reports as .jpg
• fix: memory leaks in WE Client
• fix: windows xp welcome screen hang issue
• fix: http*://.. mask as default for URL sets
• fix: other minor changes

• new: word, excel, pdf documents path tracking
• new: disable email subject and message recording
• fix: console scaling on high-res displays
• fix: other minor changes

• new: disable current info and surveillance from Client Options
• fix: Outlook 2016 latest update support for email capture
• fix: keylogging issues for non-English keyboards
• fix: web filtering driver support of Secure Boot in Win10
• fix: other minor changes

• new: GMail, YahooMail, Outlook.com emails capture
• new: Facebook.com chat messages capture
• new: stealth mode option in WE Client installer
• fix: Outlook 2016 latest update support for email capture
• fix: MS Edge ver.38 tracking
• fix: web filtering enhancements
• fix: reports performance optimization for WE Pro
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: issues with some antiviruses
• fix: surveillance window screens update
• fix: MS Outlook hangs while emails recorded
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: issues with AVG antivirus
• fix: support&update link in the s&u expiration dialog
• fix: web filter driver update
• fix: other minor changes

• new: Skype For Business chats tracking
• fix: localization issues (empty reports, english category names)
• fix: detailed reports popup menu in the manager mode
• fix: truncate domains with port string in URL
• fix: WE Console UI high-res support
• new: computer-based screen folder names support
• fix: other minor changes

• new: WE Standard edition now uses a portable firebird version, no more issues with existing firebird instances
• new: copy screenshots jpegmp images to username-based folders
• fix: file usage and skype report issues with different regional settings on client and server
• fix: chrome 49 version tracking
• fix: detailed applications and websites tracking on user log off
• fix: other minor changes

• new: screenshots recording options
• fix: dashboard data filtering issues
• fix: other minor changes

• new: Skype chats tracking
• new: windows10 MS Edge tracking
• new: All Users permissions support for managers (for Pro edition)
• fix: false positive alerts from some antiviruses
• fix: other minor changes

• new: windows10 web filtering support
• fix: empty OUs in reports data filtering
• fix: websites-based tracking filtering support for screens and keystrokes
• fix: WinXP logon lag
• fix: other minor changes

• new: blocked sites report
• new: client path and categories version for computers
• new: 'categorize only' permission for managers
• fix: auto-categorization disable mode
• fix: Google Chrome tracking for restricted users in WinXP
• fix: manager permissions applying issues
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: cascade policies update issues
• fix: client options permissions for managers
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: Google Chrome ver.43 tracking
• fix: blocking https proxy requests
• fix: date range issues in reports
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: blank screenshots (upload crashes via ftp)
• fix: Trend Micro, McAfee and some other antivirus spftware false positive for nfapi.dll file
• fix: improved webapp filters UI
• fix: other minor changes

• new: user-based client options
• new: category column in all Activity reports
• new: local traffic web filtering
• fix: other minor changes

• new: centralized Client Options management
• fix: web filter enhancements
• fix: other minor changes

• fix: Chrome 38 version support
• new: Spanish localization
• new: configure the WE Server language from WE Server Manager - Options

• fix: performance optimization in WE Pro
• fix: web filter update
• fix: MS SQL Server case sensitive mode support in WE Pro
• fix: CoInitialize error in the search bar in WE Pro
• fix: reporting preview errors
• fix: minor memory leaks in client-server messaging

• new: enhanced DB size info and clear by data option (for WE Pro)
• new: no more direct sql connections from WE Console and no sql-based users (for WE Pro)
• new: firewall exceptions support for windows vista,7,8
• fix: Server Manager start from the installer under uac
• fix: add windows users in win7
• fix: downloads reports overflow errors
• fix: web filter openssl update and other ssl issues
• fix: clear screens for non-default folders

• new: remote run of scheduled reports
• fix: permissions ui issues
• fix: chrome tracking in win xp
• fix: some ui improvements
• fix: server-side stability improvements

• new: outlook 2013 support
• fix: manager permissions issues

• new: files usage operations tracking
• new: usb flash drives blocking
• fix: dates picker range fix
• fix: search engine queries tracking fix
• fix: smtp timeout fix
• other minor changes

• new: Chrome ver 29+ support
• fix: time tracking accuracy enhancements
• fix: UI report issues in WE Console
• other minor changes

• new: delete WE Server from the list in WE Pro
• fix: manager reports visibility issues in WE Pro
• fix: wemon did not start in win xp systems
• fix: more data encoding options
• other minor changes

• new: timer support for domain sets
• fix: new web filter driver signature
• fix: Outlook mail sending issues
• other minor changes

• new: ip range feature in Client Installer
• new: URL sets usage in reports
• fix: minor UI issues

• new: code page support in alert e-mails
• fix: activities lists in reports optimization
• fix: web filter issues
• fix: chat domain set auto-categorization
• fix: minor user interface bugs

• new: windows8 support
• fix: detailed websites usage reports
• fix: network folder executables blocking in the app filter
• fix: web filter issues

• new: time periods in app&web filter rules
• new: do not save e-mail bodies to decrease db size
• fix: web filter driver improvements

• fix: web filter improvements
• fix: multiple instances of weprotect.exe+conhost.exe
• fix: old versions db update issues

• fix: web filter vs Vipre antivirus conflict
• fix: zip attachments support in reportjobs
• fix: spy reports are empty

• new: downloads reporting
• fix: web filter enhancements
• fix: errors while updating from some old versions
• fix: scheduled reports did not work on Sundays

• new: online search reports
• new: windows authentication for adminsmanagers
• new: sql 2012 support for WE Professional
• fix: critical sections issue in WE Standard Messenger service (stopped working)
• fix: web timer tracking
• fix: week periods for rules and web timer
• fix: new versions of chrome browser supported
• fix: web filter fixes
• fix: some internal bug fixes

• fix: manager reports performance in WE Pro
• fix: clients auto-update
• fix: wemon start on winlogon issues
• new: applications categorization by keywords
• fix: other minor changes

• new: more Instant Messengers supported (google talk, aim, yahoo im, windows live messenger, icq, trillian, digsby, qip, miranda)
• new: enhanced manager permissions (for WE Pro)
• fix: optimized work of WE Console with UI and huge data
• fix: winlogon tracking issues
• fix: outlook security messages (if e-mails are tracked)
• new: custom screenshot storage path
• fix: clear database does not remove some of the spy logs
• fix: very long strings in appweb filteing rules UI
• fix: minor web filter friver changes
• fix: several we server services issues with optionspolicies sync, data upload

• new: exception breaks from o in client options - tracking
• new: screenshots option to do not save screen
• new: screenshots capture programs exceptions
• fixed: user session lock time tracking
• new: screen reports wo screens recording&saving
• fixed: symantec orton incompatibility
• fixed: connection form bug with auto-logging and incorrect password
• new: direct print from spy - screens
• fixed: stop menu item did not work for client
• fixed: description instead of the display user name in rules bug
• fixed: web filtering driver 64bit OS compatibility and other improvements

• new: constant refresh of reports and current activity
• new: show all userspcs in OU when ALL selected
• fix: Console i/o timeout
• fix: navigate does not work in category reports
• fix: help/web links
• new: edit install dir in the Client Builder
• fix: create logins with non-string passwords correct processing
• fix: some client logs sending fix (false fileexists issue)
• new: clear screens (delete files) when clear database runs
• fix: OU search dialog bug - incorrect OUs in the list
• fix: old db update error on getrules
• fix: fullscreen flash players tracking (e.g. youtube.com videos)
• fix: double report refresh on console start
• fix: incorrect tab selection on the 1st WE Pro Console start

• new: appweb rules moving feature - rules priorities model
• new: appweb rules, jobs copy feature
• new: web timer moving and position saving
• fixed: web tracking is not working without app tracking enabled
• fixed: wemon warning message
• fixed: db updater service emails processing issues
• fixed: we pro db update problems from some old versions

• new: global web timer storage for users
• new: save email messages and attachments

• fixed: clients auto-update
• new: web timer window moving
• new: multiple screens view in surveillance
• fixed: objects moving from the search window
• fixed: categories&activities moving
• fixed: incorrect report jobs total time
• fixed: OU objects sorting by description
• new: friendly computer names support in Users&PCs

• fixed: correct winlogon, sleep, hibernate tracking
• fixed: old db update issues
• fixed: findinstrings webfilter access violation error
• fixed: other minor issues

• fixed: network communication errors (Winsock2.send() failed. Error code is 10054)
• fixed: errors with apply delay settings of the web rules
• fixed: web filter rule apply delay errors
• fixed: other minor issues

• fixed: network communication errors, io timeouts
• fixed: Std database update from some old builds
• fixed: File Zilla service autostart
• fixed: localization problems
• fixed: Search window in WE Console
• fixed: other minor issues

• fixed: 2.x versions update
• fixed: WE Pro database deployment issues

• fixed: app and web filtering storages were not cleared on the next day
• fixed: WE Pro database update problems from 2.x versions

• fixed: network communication issues (out of memory)
• fixed: "invalid typecast" message in WE Console
• fixed: printable report columns autowidth
• fixed: correct work of WE Pro Server services with disabled SQL Server
• fixed: old database (both, sql and firebird) update issues
• fixed: web filter timer enhancements
• fixed: UAC incompatibility for MS Outlook emails capture

• fixed: network communication issues
• fixed: e-mails report columns sorting errors
• fixed: scheduled reports data range bugs

• new: Windows Live Messenger 2011, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, QIP and open XMPP instant messages capture support
• fixed: WE Pro deployment errors
• fixed: WE Client memory leaks
• fixed: compatibility with existing FileZilla Server instances

• fixed: web filter incompatibilities with some antiviruses
• fixed: incorrect previous monthyear period in report jobs
• other minor fixes

• both separate and combined activities (app and web) tracking
• new built-in categorization system
• completely new user-friendly UI
• interactive reports
• spy features (optional)
• easy update from 2.x versions
• and more

Update price for 2.x users will cost 50% from 3.0 price and will include 1yr of support&updates.

• fixed: client memory leak
• new: chrome 7.0 support
• new: enhanced web filter
• other minor fixes
• ...

• fixed: language error message in WE Client Installer
• fixed: WE DB Wizard fix in some update scripts
• fixed: WE Client Uninstaller access violations fix
• fixed: delete login error in WE Pro
• new: WE Firebird DB updater was enhanced
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• new: Windows UAC support
• new: SMTP SSLTLS support
• fixed: organization units in WE Standard filtering rules
• fixed: shared files tracking
• Read more...

• new: 64bit OS support
• new: web filter driver
• new: pending delete objects for WE Professional
• new: multithread clear database
• fixed: real-time info issues on multiple user sessions of the client PC
• Read more...

• new: web filter driver
• new: web filter rule 'apply after' option
• new: schedule in client options to manage client working days and hours
• fixed: db standard sql deployment
• fixed: empty log inout dates
• fixed: report jobs reports files thread-safe creation
• other minor fixes

• fixed: client auto update bugfix (after local install)
• new: North American paper sizes support
• new: run wemon under user account
• other minor fixes

• fixed: web tracking problem
• fixed: auto client update after local WE_Client.exe install
• new: database and network load in server options
• new: html keyword sets support for web content filtering
• other minor fixes

• fixed: Firebird's 'gds32.dll not found' issue in Standard edition
• fixed: SQL update script problem in Professional edition
• other minor fixes

• new: User Activity Periods report, Attendance by Users - Computers report
• new: report drawing options - enable table, show first N chart records
• new: Show Message (for user) for Application Rule
• fixed: some Firebird problems in Standard edition
• other minor fixes

• new: clients autoupdate
• new: Database Wizard (for Professional edition)
• fixed: screenshot report problems
• other minor fixes

WE Standard edition improvements:

• new: one-level Organization Units model
• new: networking components
• new: client options (monitoring, tracking, networking, visibility, warning..)
• new: web filtering options (TCP ports blocking, HTTPS issues, web-browsers..)
• new: reports drawing
• new: time tracking (activity + inactive = total)

WE Professional edition improvements (including all Standard edition features):

• new: multi-level Organization Units model
• new: connection window
• fixed: db_create script usage from WE Server Manager

• fixed: web filtering in Windows Vista

• new: web filter, redirect and custom html reply options
• fixed: web filter, ssl processing for Firefox and other alternative browsers
• fixed: cascade filtering policies updates
• other minor fixes

• fixed: in some systems client does not start properly
• other minor fixes

• fixed: improved windows activity tracking
• fixed: improved logons tracking
• other minor fixes

• new: Client Tuner - a tool for creating client setup file with predefined options
• new: full quick reports menu
• fixed: logs update
• fixed: detailed web usage logging
• other minor fixes

• fixed: web blocking for restricted users
• minor fixes

• new: stealth feature (no client processes visible, unstoppable client services)
• minor fixes

• new: web filter
• minor fixes

• new: applications filter
• new: email alerts and reports

• fixed: get url mechanism
• fixed: terminal server solution request message
• fixed: double client (wemon) start
• fixed: nod32 false message for wemsrv.exe
• fixed: size decreased
• fixed: 'range check error' when sorting in the report tree

• fixed: friendly user name 'hWnd=0'
• fixed: web activity hours pie - incorrect hour labels
• added: new client connection failed message
• added: enableempty raw logs messages in trees
• added: enable raw logs message in Raw reports

• added: WE Scheduler report rules
• fixed: html reports charts
• fixed: raw log html export

• fixed: client memory usage optimization
• added: clients editor remote install notification
• fixed: internet filter blocking
• fixed: server ui
• fixed: client monitoring engine

• Employee Tracking
• Employee Time Tracking Software

• fixed: url monitoring bug on some versions of IE

• added: IE 7.0 support
• other minor fixes

• added: Testimonials page
• added: Request a Call page

• added: autorefresh checkbox in Period and Filter
• fixed: don't hide weserver by default when minimizing
• fixed: store checkboxes' state in Filter
• added: right click popup menu for Scheduler icon
• fixed: memory leak in WE Monitor (wemon.exe)

• added: edit usercomputer name in filter
• added: save client preferences for all
• fixed: WE Scheduler hovering bug
• fixed: WE Monitor engine optimization

• added: WE Sheduler - tool for auto logs collecting and reports generating
• added: terminal servers support
• added: catching db change event (i.e. by sheduler) in WE Server: reloads users, computers, applications, websites
• added: firefox support (redirect is not currently supported)
• added: new network interaction engine, now client count doesn't matter on WE Server performance
• added: ping client before connecting
• fixed: superfluous incorrect data in userscomputerswebsites filter
• fixed: web monitoring for users with limited rights
• fixed: bug with 'Computer is not connected' message when first client select
• fixed: WE Monitor hdd requests optimized
• other minor fixes