Release Notes
Version: 6.5.1
12/10/2014
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Table of Contents
1. What's New
2. Known Issues
2.1. General
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1. What's New
Netwrix Auditor 6.5.1 is a maintenance release and includes various fixes and updates. The new Netwrix
Auditor 6.5 features are:
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Netwrix Auditor now allows to detect and prevent breaches of sensitive information on file servers
and storage appliances:
See who has access to what across multiple file servers and shares
Analyze and compare file system state and permissions for any point in time
Enhanced screen activity recording of privileged users: capture, search and review all user activity
even when users have multiple monitors
Over 30 enhancements to improve scalability, performance and usability of Active Directory and file
servers change auditing
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2. Known Issues
This section provides a list of all currently known issues that customers may experience with Netwrix
Auditor 6.5.1. For each issue, there is a brief description and a workaround for the problem.
2.1. General
ID
Issue Description
Workaround
12895
12896
product operability.
15342
13168
Issue Description
Workaround
10401
The name of the user who made the change will only be
domains.
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ID
Issue Description
Workaround
11090
Changed"field.
Changed"field.
the same forest, the product will not be able to collect the
information on the latter user group membership, and this
group will not be available in report filters.
14291
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ID
Issue Description
Workaround
several workstations.
11988
instance in
the
domain, or
migrate the
audited
recommends you to
Issue Description
Workaround
11527
Wait
for
several
hours
11110
that have line breaks will contain the before and after values
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ID
10956
Issue Description
Workaround
only for the text fragment before the line break. The fact of
the change itself will be reported for the whole text string.
other tools.
10896
10590
Type" column.
10431
If
Exchange
you need
to get a
Server
Audit
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ID
Issue Description
Workaround
event.
The
user
who
field
of
the
collection
immediately
upgraded.
navigate
task
manually
after
To
to
the
do
Start
Administrative
this,
Tools
Mailbox
Access
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Issue Description
Workaround
2871
762
6462
If
reported
button
with
the
"System"
value
in
the
"Who
you
plan
in
switch,
the
Netwrix
6615
Ignore
these
affect
incorrectly.
version.
the
warning
product
For
information
advanced
configuration,
more
on
the
audit
refer
to
Instead of double-clicking an
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ID
Issue Description
Workaround
9450
9208
these properties.
8887
10000
1734
an EMC VNX/VNXe/Celerra
18844
and files and subfolders inside Subfolder, but will miss the
information on Subfolder itself.
15923
Issue Description
1549
Workaround
URL specified on
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ID
Issue Description
Workaround
Alternate
Access
entries.
12883
13455
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ID
Issue Description
13918
The
following
Workaround
changes
are
reported
with
the
13923
13977
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ID
Issue Description
Workaround
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ID
14009
Issue Description
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Workaround
change entries for the creation of all default Lists and Items
that belong to this site.
This applies to the following SharePoint 2010 templates:
15051
Collaboration Portal
Issue Description
Workaround
3133
7688
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ID
7769
Issue Description
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3117
7871
Workaround
Tables on a
Backup operations
instructions on how to do
this, refer to the following
Netwrix Knowledge base
article: How I can change the
SQLServer Change Reporter
log path on the SQLServer?
6789
Issue Description
Workaround
12743
12765
12795
13365
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ID
Issue Description
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Workaround
12740
12745
12936
the
installation to
entry
for
software
determine
In
the
future
product
going to be implemented to
only
the
selected
monitor
accesed
RDPconnection.
the
computer
through
an
When a
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ID
Issue Description
Workaround
12451
12776
11838
12763
12770
audit data.
search,
watch
Activity
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ID
10029
Issue Description
Workaround
name is"Netwrix
automatically.
10305
When you
address
is recommended to click
Verify to check
to
add
the
new
Events
if
this
address is valid.
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Description
22287
Netwrix Auditor does not write events on non-owner mailbox access to the Netwrix Nonowner Mailbox Access Agent Windows event log.
21943
Netwrix Auditor fails to collect audit data on VMware changes when running on Windows
Server 2012/Windows Server 2012 R2.
22988
After restarting, Netwrix Auditor restores a default value (*) in the Filter by account
name field on the Inactive User Tracking page instead of retrieving a value selected
previously.
23266
After upgrade, Netwrix Auditor restores default values in the modified filters of predefined real-time alerts.
24154
Netwrix Auditor cannot collect events if a Computer Collection Managed Object scope is
specified as an Active Directory container.
Description
9512
9514
Audit of NetApp Filer appliances cannot be configured in the Netwrix Auditor console, and
is only available through the Standard configuration mode.
13633
Netwrix Auditor may hang up while processing logon events from the audited Active
Directory domain. Recommended for audit of large AD domains with the Originating
Workstation option turned on.
14648
It takes Netwrix Auditor a long time to import logon events collected from the audited
Active Directory domain to the audit database, or perform the retention procedure for
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Issue
Description
such events. Recommended for audit of large AD domains with the Originating
Workstation option turned on.
15564
A new registry key has been added (overwrite_ datasource) that disables datasource
overwrites for Enterprise-Wide reports on the Report Server. Fixes the problem of the
double- hop
authentication
described
in
https://www.netwrix.com/kb/1628
for
It takes Netwrix Auditor a long time to generate the 'User Accounts With Last Logon Time'
report. Recommended for auditing large AD domains.
13678
It takes Netwrix Auditor a long time to generate the 'Groups Without Members' report.
Recommended for auditing AD domains with large number of groups.
11335
Netwrix Auditor may hang up while processing changes from the audited Active Directory
15630
15744
(>50K/day).
15794
Netwrix Auditor stops working when trying to process a large amount of changes from the
audited Active Directory domain. Recommended for auditing AD domains with a large
amount of changes (>150K/day).
15833
Netwrix Auditor does not report on changes to objects, which were renamed or removed
during the data collection. Recommended for auditing AD domains with a large amount of
changes (>5K/hour).
15532
Removed the incorrect note "To collect data from the entire SQL Server (all instances), click
Back and select Windows Server" as object type" from the Specify Items step of the New
Managed Object wizard.
16910
Netwrix Auditor reports "old" changes occurred long time ago if the source Exchange
Server, where the changes are being collected, has changed (e.g. due to connection
problems).
16609
Netwrix Auditor does not show "Who", "When" and "Where" values for changes on
membership made to accounts belonging to another forest (ForeignSecurityPrincipals).
16563
Netwrix Auditor does not collect events from the Security event log backups of the
audited domain controllers that were created during the event log data collection.
Recommended for auditing AD domains with a large number of the Security event log
backups on domain controllers.
17630
Netwrix Auditor does not track inactive users on domain controllers with modified
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Issue
Description
primary DNS suffix.
17400
Netwrix Auditor fails to generate a Change Summary; The OutOfMemory exception occurs
when auditing large databases.
18192
Netwrix Auditor incorrectly alerts on password expiration for users with Smart Card
authentication.
18400
Netwrix Auditor does not report on changes to Exchange Servers if the enterprise license
is applied only for "Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory" solution (in that case Exchange
Servers are audited in a freeware mode).
18402
Netwrix Auditor does not restore membership for deleted user accounts via Rollback
Wizard.
18207
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