mobilEcho

Acronis Access Server 6.0

The mobilEcho and activEcho products have been combined into a single new product called Acronis Access Server. This changes the branding and product names in the mobile and desktop clients as well as the web application. Acronis Access Server 6.0 can be installed as an upgrade to mobilEcho and/or activEcho and existing licenses will continue to work. Customers are entitled to exchange their existing mobilEcho and/or activEcho license(s) for a new Acronis Access license that will enable the full functionality of the combined product. To request this upgrade, please submit this web form. For the latest information, please visit the What' New in Acronis Access Server article.

mobilEcho 5.1.0

ENHANCEMENTS

• Users with mobilEcho 5.1 or later on iOS can now create their data sources directly from the application to access any file share or SharePoint location. Users enter UNC paths or SharePoint URLs from the client. New policy settings have been introduced on the management server to control whether clients are allowed to create these data sources, and which Gateway Servers are used for these requests.
• Multiple Gateway Servers can now share a common configuration via a Cluster Group. Changes to the settings and policies assigned to the Cluster Group are automatically pushed to all members of the Group. This will typically be used when multiple Gateway Servers are placed behind a load balancer for high availability.
• Gateway Servers now support authentication using Kerberos. This can be used to in scenarios using Kerberos Constrained Delegation to authenticate mobilEcho iOS clients through a reverse proxy using client certificates. It also can be used to authenticate mobile devices with client certificates using MobileIron AppTunnel. Note that when using this form of authentication, mobile clients cannot access activEcho shares.
• The required data sources are now automatically created when assigning home folders to a user or group policy. Previously administrators needed to manually create a data source for the server hosting the home directory.
• The address of a legacy Gateway Server can now be modified
• The policy exceptions for Android have been updated to reflect the functionality of the mobilEcho Android 3.1 client

BUG FIXES

• Removing a user or group policy with a custom home folder now properly removes the volume on the Gateway Server.
• Displaying Assigned Sources for a user now displays sources assigned to that user through their group memberships.
• Improved the ordering of the tabs in the Data Sources administration page.
• Changing a Gateway Server administration address no longer dismisses the edit dialog when clicking Apply.
• mobilEcho clients enrolling for management using client certificates will no longer fail periodically if the user was not already in the server's LDAP cache.
• Adding white space to Gateway Server addresses no longer prevents the Gateway Server from being properly managed.
• Notes in the Device Information dialog are now saved properly.
• When policies are disabled, they now appear grayed out in the policy list.
• On upgrade from mobilEcho Server 4.5 the mobilEcho users are now imported properly even if the wrong LDAP search base is entered in the configuration wizard.
• License keys starting with YD1 are now displayed properly as trials with an expiration date on the licensing page, instead of perpetual licenses.
• Enrollment email invitations now have proper links for Android clients.
• Editing SharePoint credentials for a Gateway Server is now disabled if the Gateway Server does not have a license supporting SharePoint connectivity.

mobilEcho 5.0.3

BUG FIXES

• When configuring data sources the %USERNAME% token can now be used as part of a folder name, instead of the whole name.
• Newly created data sources are now checked to see if they are searchable immediately. Previously they were only checked in 15 minute intervals.
• Search is now available on data sources that add search indexing after the Gateway Server has started.

mobilEcho 5.0.2

ENHANCEMENTS

• The Folder list in Data Sources now shows the assigned Gateway Server using its Display Name instead of its IP Address.

BUG FIXES

• Clients can now access data sources with a colon in their name.
• Upgrades from mobilEcho 4.5 now properly handle migrating SharePoint data sources.
• After an upgrade, the Assigned Sources tab in Data Sources now properly displays resources assigned to a user.
• Sorting the Active Users table by Policy or Idle Time no longer generates an error.
• Clients can now access Gateway Servers that are provisioned to be visible on clients and that have different addresses for client connections.
• Fixed a bug where home folders could fail to open in the mobilEcho client if the Access Server contained data sources with similar paths (for example "\\homes" and "\\homes2")

mobilEcho 5.0.1

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the database migration from mobilEcho 4.5 to 5.0 would fail if there were device password resets still pending which had been created in an earlier version of mobilEcho. This caused an error to be displayed in the web browser when starting up the server similar to the following:
  
  ActiveRecord::JDBCError: ERROR: value too long for type character varying(255): INSERT INTO "password_resets" ....
  Customers that have this condition can upgrade to this new version of the server and the problem will be resolved automatically.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some clients to go into restricted mode after the upgrade to mobilEcho 5.0.
• The management server data sources table now shows the Gateway Server's display name instead of IP address.

mobilEcho 5.0

ENHANCEMENTS

• The mobilEcho Client Management Server is integrated with Acronis Access Server and built on Apache Tomcat and PostgreSQL database for improved scalability and resilience.
• The mobilEcho Administrator previously used to manage individual mobilEcho servers has been removed; Access Gateway Servers (formerly mobilEcho File Access Servers) are now managed directly within the Acronis Access Server web administration user interface.
• mobilEcho Client Management Server configuration file has been removed; configuration settings previously in the configuration file are automatically migrated and are now managed through the Acronis Access Server web administration user interface.
• Configuration of data sources (formerly assigned "Folders") to be shared to mobile devices has been redesigned.
• New "Assigned Sources" capability allows administrators to get a report of all of the assigned resources that a particular Active Directory user or group will receive.
• Audit logging can be enabled to report on mobile user activity across multiple Acronis Access Gateway Servers.
• Administrators can now be granted different permissions for administrative activity, including managing users, data sources, mobile policies or viewing the audit log. This can be based on individual users and/or membership in Active Directory groups.
• Devices operations such as remote wipe or removing devices from the device list can now be performed in batches.
• A catch-all "default" policy can be configured which applies to all users that don't match configured Active Directory user or group policies.
• New policy options allow specification that content on the device within the "My Files" and "File Inbox" folders expires and is removed after a certain amount of time.
• When sending an enrollment invitation to an Active Directory group, users who are already enrolled through another group can be filtered out.
• A warning is presented if a user is invited for enrollment but does not match any existing user/group policy.
• The devices table now lists the user or group policy in use for each device.
• Cached Active Directory / LDAP information about users is now updated periodically in the background.
• Content searching is now available against remote Windows file shares running Windows Search.
• A policy cannot be be deleted if a device is being managed by it
• mobilEcho enrollment invitation templates can be modified directly from within the web administration console. Multiple languages for each template are supported.
• A new token is available in the enrollment invitation templates to include the Active Directory user's Display Name.
• Devices list and device details screen now show whether devices are managed by Good Dynamics or MobileIron AppConnect.
• Support for authenticating to the web administration console using SSLv2 has been deprecated by the transition to the Apache Tomcat web server.
• Support for trace logging and performance monitoring via New Relic.

BUG FIXES

• Home directory configuration is now retrieved properly when LDAP is configured to use the global catalog.
• Improved handling of Active Directory lookups when trailing spaces are used.
• The "Enrolled at" date is now formatted properly when exporting to .CSV file.
• Improved support for displaying Unicode via the web administration user interface.
• SharePoint folders ending with a space can now be enumerated by clients.
• SharePoint libraries that have extra slashes now support file deletion and copy properly.

mobilEcho 4.5.2 (Released: October 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added support for smart card authentication, and added a setting to allow or disallow clients using this new authentication method.

mobilEcho 4.5.1 (Released: September 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:

The mobilEcho server now supports requiring that mobilEcho Android clients are managed by MobileIron AppConnect.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed an issue where clients could time out trying to connect to a server if mobilEcho was configured to enumerate site collections.

Fixed an issue where the mobilEcho server selected when configuring a custom home directory path could fail to save properly when saving a user or group profile.

mobilEcho 4.5 (Released: August 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added support for giving access to SharePoint Online for Office 365.

Added the ability to enumerate and browse into individual SharePoint site collections.

Added support for client certificate authentication to mobilEcho file servers.

Added profile options to enable or disable the client's ability to edit text and/or Office files, to configure an auto-sync interval, and to automatically sync a user's home folder.

Increased the maximum volume name length to 127 UTF-8 characters to allow for longer volume names when using Unicode characters.

Added separate columns to the exported .csv devices list for display name and common name to make the usernames more clear.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed an issue where the exported .csv devices list would display the domain name incorrectly if the domain name contained numerical characters.

Fixed an issue where the server would respond incorrectly to a client request to delete a folder that was the root of an SMB share.

Fixed an issue where network path mapping could fail if two path mappings were created for two similar paths (e.g. \\server\vol and \\server\vol2).

mobilEcho 4.3.2 (Released: April 2013)

BUG FIXES:

Fixed an issue where mobilEcho Administrator could fail to create an activEcho volume when the product is licensed with a Retail serial number.

Fixed an issue where a mobilEcho client could fail to open its home directory if the home directory is configured using the %USERNAME% wildcard and the server domain and the user's domain have a trust relationship.

Fixed an issue where the server could incorrectly send an error message to Android clients when those clients attempted to obtain their profile.

mobilEcho 4.3.1 (Released: April 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:

The mobilEcho server now supports mobilEcho clients that identify themselves using a custom device identifier, rather than Apple's device identifier.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed an issue where the Users and Groups pages of the mobilEcho Client Management web console could load very slowly if there were a large number of configured profiles.

Fixed an issue where the enrollment link in client enrollment invitation emails could fail to open properly on Android clients.

Fixed an issue where iOS clients could fail to connect to the server after upgrading from 4.0.1 server or earlier to 4.3 server.

mobilEcho 4.3 (Released: March 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:

The mobilEcho server now supports mobilEcho clients with optional support for MobileIron AppConnect activated. The server now allows administrators to require or restrict mobilEcho access to iOS clients with AppConnect enabled. This setting is located in the "Settings" window of the "mobilEcho Administrator" application, on the "Security" tab.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed an issue where clients upgrading from mobilEcho Server 4.0.x or earlier could incorrectly receive a "specified account does not have a management profile" error when attempting to retrieve their management profile.

Fixed an issue where the mobilEcho server's memory usage could increase if the "mobilEcho Administrator" was left open for a long period of time.

Fixed an issue where the client would fail to show an error or would show an incorrect error message if the user's AD account password had expired, or the account was locked out or disabled.

Fixed an issue where the server upgrade process could fail if mobilEcho had been installed to a non-system drive.

Fixed an issue where a JavaScript error would occur each time a user or group profile was added via the mobilEcho Client Management web console when using IE8.

mobilEcho 4.2 (Released: February 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:

mobilEcho 4.2 servers now support mobilEcho 4.2 clients localized in German, French and Japanese. The 4.2 server will ensure that these clients receive server error messages in their local language. In addition, the mobilecho_manager_intl.cfg file contains settings to configure the client enrollment invitation email subjects in these three languages.

The mobilEcho Client Management service will now automatically detect crashes in the client management web application and stop the service so that administrators can properly detect these errors. Additional error information will be written to the ManagementUI\log folder.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a problem where the user could repeatedly be asked to enter proxy credentials when accessing the mobilEcho server through an HTTPS reverse proxy server.

Fixed a problem where the mobilEcho Client Management Server web UI could fail to restart because the client management database schema was not updated properly on upgrade. This would occur if the database was configured to be stored on a disk that was not available at upgrade time.

Sorting devices by "Last Contact" now sorts newest to oldest by default.

Fixed a problem where whitelists and blacklists could not be assigned when adding or editing a user or group profile.

Fixed a problem where files that were already on the device could sync again unnecessarily if the sync source was within an activEcho volume.

The password field on the login page of the client management web UI now has auto-complete disabled.

Removing a user or group profile now causes the name information for that user/group to be removed from cache. This ensures that re-adding a profile for that user/group will always force the management UI to retrieve the latest name from Active Directory.

Fixed a problem where "set the default file action" and "cache recently accessed files on this device" could be enabled in profiles after upgrading mobilEcho server.

Fixed a problem where the app password reset functionality in the management server UI might not work properly in Firefox.

Fixed a problem on the Invitations page of the client management server web UI where users within distribution subgroups could fail to be found in LDAP searches.

Fixed a problem where the server check for free disk space in a folder would incorrectly check the free space at the root of the mobilEcho volume.

Fixed a problem where open file handles would not be closed for 24 hours if a client disconnected in the middle of a file transfer. These handles will now be closed when the session times out, after 15 minutes.

Fixed a problem where the "Allow iTunes and iCloud to back up locally stored mobilEcho files" profile setting would always revert to enabled after saving management profile.

mobilEcho 4.1 (Released: December 2012)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added an alternative client management server authentication mechanism so that mobilEcho clients that are configured to not save credentials for assigned servers and folders can authenticate to the management server to retrieve their profile without requiring their Active Directory password be stored on the device.

Modified the app password reset process. This was necessary to support the new custom on-device encryption that is included in the mobilEcho 4.1 client app. If a managed client forgets their app password, they now provide their administrator with a code generated by the app. The administrator enters this code into the mobilEcho Client Management web console and receives a second code that they give back to the client. This code allows the user to reset their app password and get into the app.

Enhanced the way resources (servers and folders) are provisioned to clients. Provisioned resources are no longer assigned directly to user/group profiles. Users or groups are now assigned directly to individual assigned resources and each user receives the full collection of resources assigned to their user account or a group they are a member of.

Added the ability to send up to three enrollment invitations to the same email address automatically for users with multiple devices.

Added a column to the LDAP search table for Distinguished Name so that users with the same name in different subdomains can be distinguished.

Added new management profile setting to allow or disallow users from opening and/or sending links to files.

Added client Good Dynamics status in the management server Devices list. Devices enrolled with Good Dynamics will no longer have the "Reset App Password" option available. The app password is managed within the Good Control console in this scenario.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a problem where hiding inaccessible files on reshares when one of the volumes was a SharePoint volume could cause some of the volumes to fail to appear on the client.

Fixed a problem where the Client Management Administrator could fail to filter the devices or invitations tables, or could take a very long time to complete the filter. Filtering is now done without the need to perform additional LDAP requests.

Fixed a problem where attempting to read a file on an activEcho volume that no longer exists would result in a corrupted file being read rather than an error being returned.

Fixed a problem where the presence of a misconfigured or unavailable activEcho volume could cause clients to time out when attempting to retrieve the volume list.

Fixed a misleading message in the Client Management Administrator if a profile was configured to have 'App password must contain complex characters' greater than the 'Minimum password length'.

Fixed a problem when the client management server was configured to use a non-default port (i.e. not port 3000) and the server was upgraded. The first time the management server would run after upgrade it would attempt to use port 3000 rather than the configured port.

Modified the message in the Client Management Administrator when removing a currently managed client from the devices list to indicate that the client may automatically reenroll at a later time if enrollment PINs are not being used.

Fixed a problem where the Client Management Administrator could display an error if a profile was configured to use a home folder with an empty custom path.

Fixed a problem where 0-byte files would fail to download or sync with a "device not ready" error.

Content search is now automatically disabled on activEcho and SharePoint volumes since content search is not available.

Fixed a problem where users with email address beginning with underscore (e.g. "_user@example.com") could fail to receive enrollment invitations.

Client Management Administrator now returns a better error message than "unknown result" if the LDAP server requires SSL.

Fixed a problem where sessions could time out while downloading very large files.

Fixed a problem where configuring an assigned folder with an invalid path (e.g. "C:\foo\bar") could cause the Users page to show the error "can't modify frozen string".

Fixed a problem where selecting the "Reindex all volumes" button in the mobilEcho Administrator would generate an invalid error message.

Fixed a problem where filtering on a Unicode string in the Client Management Administrator could generate an "incompatible character encodings" error.

SharePoint "Wiki Page Gallery" libraries are now removed from site enumerations because they are not supported by mobilEcho.

Fixed a problem where new profile settings could become corrupted on upgrade.

Fixed a problem where a SharePoint document library volume would fail to work if the document library name was URL encoded, e.g. "My%20Library".

mobilEcho 4.0.3 (Release: October 2012)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added support for SharePoint custom document libraries.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a problem accessing SharePoint sites and document libraries whose paths are multiple levels below their parent site.

Fixed a problem accessing SharePoint sites that use Claims Based Authentication.

mobilEcho 4.0.2 (Released: September 2012)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added support for Android clients.

Added settings to the mobilEcho Administrator for restricting access by iOS and/or Android clients.

Added support for sending enrollment instructions for iOS, Android and Good clients.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a problem where exporting the devices list to a .csv file could result in a server error, or could result in some fields displaying as "Not found in AD".

Fixed a problem where non-Good clients could enroll with a management server that was configured to require clients be enrolled with Good Dynamics. Previously, clients could enroll, but would receive an error when contacting the server to access data. Clients are now disallowed from enrolling in the first place.

mobilEcho 4.0.1 (Released: August 2012)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added profile settings for "Number of days to warn of pending lock" and "Number of days to warn of pending wipe". These settings relate to existing settings that can wipe or lock the mobilEcho app if the device does not contact the management server for a specified period of time.

Added pagination, filtering and sorting to the Users and Groups pages within the mobilEcho Client Management server.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to authenticate with SharePoint volumes using Kerberos authentication.

Fixed a problem where users could fail to authenticate with SharePoint volumes if their user principal name (UPN) had a different domain than their Windows 2000 domain.

Fixed a problem where users could fail to authenticate with SharePoint volumes if their username contained Unicode characters and authentication was performed using NTLM.

Fixed a problem where users could fail to authenticate with SharePoint volumes if the user was a member of a subdomain and authentication was performed using NTLM.

SharePoint document libraries will now display all items, regardless of the settings of the library's default view.

The "Last Contact Time" column on the Devices page of the mobilEcho Client Management server now properly sorts by date.

Filters in the mobilEcho Client Management server now work properly with Unicode characters.

Filters in the mobilEcho Client Management server now "stick" after pagination settings are changed.

Disabled the "Indexed Search" and "Content Search" checkboxes when adding or editing reshare volumes in the mobilEcho Administrator, since search is not supported on those volumes.

The mobilEcho Administrator now automatically fills in the existing path when editing a SharePoint, activEcho or reshare volume path.

The mobilEcho server now returns a better error code if the user attempts to overwrite a file via Save Back that is checked out to another user.

mobilEcho 4.0 (Released: July 2012)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added support for accessing data in SharePoint 2007 and 2010 document libraries.

The mobilEcho server can now simultaneously support activEcho and other volume types. Previous versions required switching into activEcho-only mode to access activEcho data.

Improved performance of the mobilEcho Client Management server by making LDAP queries "begins with" rather than "contains" by default. Administrators may choose "contains" when searching to obtain the previous behavior.

The mobilEcho Client Management server can now filter the invitations tables by username.

The mobilEcho Client Management server can now export the devices list to a .csv file.

The mobilEcho Client Management server now sorts and paginates the devices, users, groups and invitations tables.

Added a profile setting to allow/disallow users from creating bookmarks.

Added a profile setting to disable My Files while still allowing sync folders.

Added a profile setting to automatically lock the mobilEcho app or wipe all mobilEcho data if the device does not contact the management server for a specified period of time.

Added a profile setting to prevent users from setting an app password.

Files can now be copied within activEcho volumes by transferring data through the client.

Improved performance reading and writing to activEcho volumes.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a problem where files and folders ending in a period or space could fail to be accessible on activEcho volumes.

Fixed a problem where the Devices page could fail to load in mobilEcho Client Management server after Japanese and Chinese users have enrolled.

mobilEcho 3.7 (Released: June 2012)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Improved performance of the mobilEcho Client Management server by caching user information to minimize the number of LDAP queries.

BUG FIXES:

Active Directory distribution groups are no longer found when searching for groups on the group profile page.

Fixed a problem when the path of a provisioned folder ends with a backslash.

mobilEcho 3.6.1 (Released: May 2012)

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a problem where files on an activEcho server could fail to preview, copy or sync.

Fixed a problem where users could fail to preview, copy or sync files in a home directory if the home directory was set up with a network reshare path mapping in the mobilEcho Client Management server.

Fixed a problem where users could fail to see their home directories if the client authenticated to the management server with a user principal name (UPN) such as user@domain.com.

Fixed a problem where the "%USERNAME%" wildcard would fail to use the correct username if the client authenticated to the management server with a user principal name (UPN) such as user@domain.com.

mobilEcho 3.6 (Released: April 2012)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Improved performance of Active Directory lookups for users and groups.

Searches of Active Directory in the mobilEcho Client Management server now search on both common names and display names.

Add profile settings for allowing/denying the ability of users to create sync folders, and to perform a Quickoffice® "Save Back".

The mobilEcho Client Management server can now be configured to store database and profile information in a different location than the application directory, allowing for the management server service to be failed over to other cluster nodes.

The mobilEcho Administrator now displays the number of licenses currently being occupied, and will only display a single session for each user/device if the user has reconnected to the mobilEcho server multiple times.

The mobilEcho Administrator now automatically runs with elevated privileges.

The enrollment email subject can now be customized in the 'mobilEcho_management.cfg' file.

BUG FIXES:

mobilEcho no longer permits Active Directory "Distribution" groups to be used to create mobilEcho Client Management group policies. Distribution groups are provided by Microsoft for email purposes only. If you are using AD "Distribution" groups for any of your mobilEcho Client Management policies, please use the "Active Directory Users and Computers" control panel to convert these groups to "Security" groups.

Fixed a problem where a user that used different username formats to enroll with multiple devices would occupy multiple licenses. For example, if one device was enrolled as "user@example.com" and a second device was enrolled as "example\user", the licensing logic would treat those as two separate user accounts for licensing purposes.

Fixed a problem where a user could fail to get the appropriate group profile if the user's Active Directory primary group was not set to the default of "Domain Users".

Fixed a problem where a user could fail to get the appropriate group profile if the user's group was a "universal" Active Directory group.

Fixed a problem where users with Unicode characters in their usernames would not have their credentials saved after enrolling with mobilEcho Client Management.

Fixed a problem where the server could allow mobilEcho clients to overwrite files that were flagged as read-only.

Fixed some mobilEcho Client Management display issues on Mac Safari.

Fixed a problem where Verizon iPad 3 devices were displayed as "AT&T" (and vice versa) in the mobilEcho Client Management devices page.

Fixed a problem where the mobilEcho Administrator could crash when viewing the list of connected users.

Fixed a problem where the invitation email would fail to show the username.

mobilEcho 3.5 (Released: February 2012)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added support for 2-way sync folders. Client-side changes made in 2-way sync enabled folders will be synced back to the server automatically. These 2-way sync folders can be provisioned through the mobilEcho Client Management server.

Added support for reverse proxy authentication. Reverse proxy servers, such as Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG), can be configured to require authentication before granting access to internal network resources. The mobilEcho client now supports both HTTP username/password and SSL Client Certificate authentication methods. To use SSL Client Certificate authentication, a certificate must be installed in the mobilEcho keychain. See this Knowledge Base article for more information: http://support.grouplogic.com/?p=3830

Added additional options for configuring mobilEcho device enrollment requirements. mobilEcho can now be optionally configured to accept enrollment requests from devices without the need for a one-time PIN. In addition, when mobilEcho is configured to require such PINs, these PINs can be viewed within the management interface.

Added support for client app whitelisting and blacklisting. A managed mobilEcho client can be configured so that files can only be opened into a restricted whitelist or blacklist of third-party iOS apps.

Improved browsing performance of network reshare volumes by disabling the filtering of inaccessible file and folders by default on such volumes.

Added support for network reshare to SMB/CIFS volumes on NetApp storage.

Added the ability to configure mobilEcho provisioned folder paths that include a username wildcard.

Added the ability to configure mobilEcho home folders with custom paths. These paths may include a username wildcard.

mobilEcho no longer requires that users have "list folder" permissions at the root of a share containing their home folder.

Added a new registry setting to control whether or not hidden shares on a network reshare are visible to mobilEcho clients. To enable this feature, set the following registry setting to 1:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\mobilEcho\Parameters4\Refreshable\Pez\GetShowHiddenSMBShares

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a problem where the mobilEcho Client Management server would appear to allow access without a proper username and password.

Fixed a problem where files would incorrectly require a sync after a change in daylight savings time.

Fixed a problem where renamed files would continue to be returned in search results when searching under the old filename. This problem would only occur for volume that were configured to use "indexed search" (not Windows Search).

Fixed a problem where mobilEcho could fail to install or run on systems missing a system DLL (normaliz.dll).

Fixed a problem where the client could fail to copy a file to the server if the user account did not have permission to calculate the amount of free space on the volume. The client would report an error about there not being enough free space on the volume.

Removed extraneous logging from the mobilEcho LOG.TXT file.

Fixed a problem where folders could not be provisioned for servers whose display name contained parentheses.

mobilEcho 3.1 (Released: November 2011)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Client management profiles can now be configured with the following new settings:

- The number of incorrect app password attempts that can be made before the local data

within the mobilEcho app is automatically wiped. This feature is disabled by default.

- Whether the user is required to confirm before syncing occurs (options are:

"Always", "Never", and "Only on 3G").

- Whether syncing is allowed any time, or only while on WiFi networks.

- Client timeout for unresponsive servers now accepts additional values of 90, 120 and 180 seconds.

The mobilEcho Client Management server can now be configured to communicate with Active Directory via secure LDAP.

Profiles now default to allow files to be cached on the local device. If caching is disabled or if the "Allow files to be stored on this device" setting is disabled, no files will be cached.

The text of enrollment invitation emails can be customized. Please visit the GroupLogic Knowledge Base for more information: http://support.grouplogic.com/?p=3749

Added a setting to the management configuration file to control the name that enrollment invitation emails appear from (e.g. "mobilEcho Invitation <mobilEcho_invitation@example.com>". Version 3.0 only allowed an address to be specified (e.g. "mobilEcho_invitation@example.com").

The VALID_LOGIN_NAMES field of the management configuration file now supports Active Directory groups in addition to specific users that can administer the mobilEcho Client Management service.

Changing SMTP settings within the management configuration file no longer requires a restart of the mobilEcho Client Management service.

Profiles for users and groups that no longer exist in Active Directory are now marked as such in the mobilEcho Client Management service.

Added the ability to show inaccessible items only on reshare volumes. This can be useful in cases where determining file and folder accessibility is causing performance problems. This behavior can be adjusted by modifying the following registry setting and restarting the service:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\mobilEcho\Parameters4\Refreshable\Pez\HideInaccessibleItemsOnReshares

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a problem where the mobilEcho Client Management server would not properly calculate an Active Directory home directory path if the associated 'Network reshare path mapping' included a trailing backslash.

Fixed a problem where the mobilEcho Client Management server would not properly calculate an Active Directory home directory path that only included a server and share name. (i.e. \\servername\sharename)

Fixed a problem that could prevent network reshare volumes configured with paths to the root of a server (i.e. \\servername) from appearing properly in the mobilEcho client.

mobilEcho clients now always log into provisioned servers using fully qualified domain accounts. In previous versions of mobilEcho, the credentials entered at enrollment time would be used to authenticate with file servers, even if these credentials did not include a domain name (e.g. domain\user). This could cause problems if the provisioned server was on a different domain than the management server and access to the server in the secondary domain relied on a domain trust with the primary domain. This behavior can be reverted to the previous default by setting the following registry value to 0 and restarting the service:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\mobilEcho\Parameters4\Refreshable\Pez\DomainAndUsernameShouldBeSentToClient

Fixed a problem where the mobilEcho Client Management server did not properly sort "Last contact date" properly on the Devices page.

Fixed a problem in the mobilEcho Administrator where the Help button would not adjust properly as the Users window was resized.

mobilEcho 3.0 (Released: October 2011)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Centrally managed device enrollment. Client enrollment invitations are now generated and emailed to the user from the mobilEcho Client Management Administrator. These invitations include a one-time use PIN number required for client enrollment.

Remote wipe and remote reset of app passwords is now performed on a per-device basis.

Individual device status is now displayed in the mobilEcho Client Management Administrator. This includes device user name, device name, device type, iOS version, mobilEcho version, mobilEcho status, last contact time.

Users' Active Directory assigned network home folders can now be automatically displayed in the mobilEcho client app.

Specific mobilEcho shared volumes or folders within shared volumes can now be assigned to user or group profiles. These shared volumes or folders are then automatically displayed in the mobilEcho client app.

Shared volumes or folders assigned to user or group profiles can be configured to automatically one-way sync from server to mobilEcho client, making the contained files available for online or offline use.

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a problem where the mobilEcho server would not properly report free space for server-to-server copies.

Improved error messages and processing if a user attempts to copy or move files into the root of a network reshare.

Fixed a problem where a user could be authenticated with AD by contacting mobilEcho via a web browser. This could cause a user account to become locked.

Improved the speed of installation, particularly for upgrades.

Fixed a problem where files and folders ending a period or space could fail to copy properly.

Fixed a problem logging into the management UI with a username containing numbers, e.g. "e12345".

Updated OpenSSL library to latest version. OpenSSL libraries are used for encryption.

mobilEcho 2.1.1 (Released: July 2011)

BUG FIXES:

Fixed a bug when listing the contents of folders which may have resulted in slow performance or client timeouts if many of the folders were not accessible to the client.

mobilEcho 2.1.0 (Released: July 2011)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added the ability to create mobilEcho shares that reshare data on a remote system. The mobilEcho reshare feature is only available for customers with an enterprise license. Reshares can be a particular share (e.g. "\\server\share") or an entire server ("\\server\").

The mobilEcho client can now perform copy and move operations on folders when connected to a server running mobilEcho Server 2.1 or later, and the management UI now has settings to allow or disallows these operations.

The management UI now has the ability to add a new group or user using settings from an existing user or group.

Management profiles can now be disabled so that the corresponding user or group cannot receive their profile.

Added the ability to prevent clients from connecting to servers with self-signed certificates.

Added a management setting to enable or disable copying text from a previewed document.

Added a management setting that tells the client to store files so that they are not backed up by iTunes.

mobilEcho 2.0.0 (Released: May 2011)

ENHANCEMENTS:

Added the ability to manage mobilEcho clients using server-defined profiles using mobilEcho Client Management.

Added the ability to reset mobilEcho app passwords from the server.

Added the ability to force a remote wipe for a particular mobilEcho user.

mobilEcho will now use an internal filename index for satisfying search requests if Windows Search is not installed or available.

The mobilEcho administrator now allows for volumes to be seamlessly replicated from SMB and/or ExtremeZ-IP shares.

mobilEcho 1.0.0 (Released: January 2011)

Initial release.