Release Notes

Version 2.06 build 1038, February 12th, 2010

New Features

Multiple Credentials per application

Support for Silverlight

New Detection Method

Start Applications from the E-SSOM User Client (Automatically)

New Script Actions

• Database Query: This script action can be used to query a database. The resulting table can be used in other script actions.
• Database Update: This script action can be used to update a database.
• Verify domain credentials: This script action can be used to verify if domain credentials are correct.
• Accessible Set: This script can be used together with the new detection method to set text in a window control (for instance an edit box)
• Accessible Get: This script can be used together with the new detection method to get text from a window control (for instance an edit box)
• Accessible DefaultAction: This script can be used together with the new detection method to perform the default action of a control (for instance to press a button)

New Data Type

Enhancements

Admin Console

• If a new variable is created in a script action, a warning is displayed that it is a new variable.
• Variables that are listed in the application definitions are now also available from the context menu when editing a script. Only the variables of application definitions to which the script is linked are displayed.

Script Actions

• The 'Ask for Credentials' script action now accepts table data as input. (from for instance the 'query database' script action) A column from the table can be displayed in a combo box.
• The 'Send a Window Message' has been extended so that the 'wParam' and the 'lParam' can be created out of two numbers in stead of one.
• The HTML Script actions have two additional settings: 'display' and 'visibility' that can be used to find a HTML element.
• The 'Set Text In Control' now has an option to select the control with the mouse before entering the text.
• The 'Select Combo Box Item' now has an option to select the control with the mouse before selecting the text.
• The 'Set HTML Text in Control' script action now supports text area input types.

Default Scripts

• Default Accessible - Login
• Default Accessible - Bad Password
• Default Accessible - Change Password

Fixes

Admin Console

• In rare cases the service installation could fail with error: ‘%1 is not a valid win32 application’.
• When selecting a window with the target icon, the application could lose control over the mouse causing the Admin Console to stay hidden.
• When a Java application was being configured and the java application was running a script, the java application could hang.
• The 'reference' variable in java script action was not saved when the 'Edit Java Window Layout' was used.
• Not all script actions could be dragged to another window.

Client Service

• When the update service interval was not specified it could be set to 0 causing the E-SSOM Client Service to update every 3 seconds.

CLI

• When a CLI window was started, that title was used in the detection. If the title changed, it would not be picked up by E-SSOM.

Installer

• The adm file did not contain the ‘SvcUpdateInteval’ setting.

Script Actions

• The input keyboard script action could fail to type characters that had to be typed with the ‘Alt Gr’ key.
• The 'set text in control' script action could fail if the 'use messages' property was set to true and the 'Alt Gr' key needed to be used.
• The ‘Fire Event’ Action was saved as a ‘press button’ action to the database.

General

• Application definitions made during a WebEx session could fail after the session ended.

Java

• When dialog was displayed after pressing a button, the dialog could not be handled by E-SSOM.

Version 2.01 build 1033, November 19th, 2009

New Features

Command Line / Telnet support

HLLAPI Application support

Java Application support

New detection method

New Script Actions

• Sleep: This script action may be used to pause a script for a specified amount of time.
• Write Text: Use this action to write text to the console. (For instance a telnet application)
• Log Event: Use this action to log the event that triggered the script.
• Goto Address: Use this action in a HTML script to navigate to the specified address.
• Fire Event: Use this action to fire a specific event in a webpage.
• Set Java Text: Use this action to enter text in an edit box of a java application.
• Press Java Button: Use this action to press a button in a java application.

Enhancements

User Client Service

• A GPO setting has been added to disable event logging.
• A GPO setting has been added to disable event log caching.

Script actions

• The 'input keyboard' script action can now temporarily block keyboard input from other sources. (For instance the physical keyboard)
• The 'input mouse' script action can now temporarily block mouse input from other sources. (For instance the physical mouse)
• The 'set text in control' can now first clear a message box or a combo box before entering text.
• All of the HTML actions can now also search within child frames for the correct control.
• The 'Set Checkbox' script action can now change the state of a checkbox using the mouse.

Admin Console

• The E-SSOM web browser can now export the details of a web page to XML.
• If an application is deleted, the Admin Console will now only ask to delete the scripts if they are not being used by another application.

User Client

• An option has been added to the context sensitive menu to refresh the client data.

Default Applications

• Default Application
• Default Java Application
• Default Telnet Application

Default Scripts

• Default - Login
• Default - Change Password
• Default - Bad Password
• Default CLI - Enter Username
• Default CLI - Enter Password
• Default Java - Login
• Default Java - Bad Password
• Default Java - Change Password
• Default Web - Login
• Default Web - GetLoginCredentials

Fixes

Admin Console

• When an application definition was copied, it was no longer possible to remove control restrictions from the events.
• Not all controls in a window could be detected using the target icon. This would often occur when a control was in another control (for instance a group box).
• When the Central Service was upgraded, the new version of the MSSSQL.txt file was not copied to the Central Service. This could cause a 'create SQL database' action to fail.
• If a script was open in the overview window and the same script was deleted from the script tree, it was no longer possible to save the script.

Script Actions

• The ‘Use Messages’ property in the ‘set text in control’ action now correctly types text (including shift characters).
• The 'If..Then..Else..' script action did not always correctly compare data of the same type.

Hook

• The Window text in various actions could be read incorrectly.
• Displaying a dialog could cause some applications to stop responding.

Client Service

• Fixed a memory leak when saving configuration data.
• If 2 or more application policies for the same application with the same preference were created, the Client Service could crash.

SSO Client Software Installer

• Fixed an issue in the installer that could cause the 64 bit Browser Helper Object to fail to register.
• The installation entries for previous versions of the E-SSOM Client Software were not removed when upgrading.

Version 1.17 build 1020, July 3rd, 2009

New Features

Reporting

New Documentation

• Installation Guide: This guide explains how to install the various E-SSOM components in the network.
• Configuration Guide: This guide explains how to accomplish various tasks in the Admin Console.
• Scripting Guide: This guide explains how to create scripts, what the script actions do and how they can be
configured.

Web Browser Event analyser

New Script Actions

• Get HTML Control Information: Use this action to get information on a specific control on a web page. This can for instance be used in a script to detect the entry of an incorrect password.
• Input Mouse: Use this action to manually generate mouse events. These events include moving the mouse or clicking on a mouse button.
• Input Keyboard: Use this action to manually generate keyboard events. These events allow you to enter text as if it was typed by the user.
• Select List Control Item: Use this action to select a specific item in a list control.

Enhancements

Admin Console

• Applications are now sorted in the tree.
• An option has been added to allow handling off all events triggered by the same window in an application.
• When searching for an application, only the ‘executable name’ restriction will be selected by default.
• The position of events can be changed. This allows you to control which event should be executed.
• When deleting applications, a question is now asked if the associated scripts also must be deleted.
• It is now possible to specify exactly at which event a script must be executed.
• Scripts are now sorted in the tree.
• Right click on one or more application policies to enable/disable all selected policies.
• It is now possible to restrict the amount of days that a user can create a delegation for.
• The property edit dialog now only allows you to enter variable names if the property should be a variable.
• All property edit dialog are now of the same size. This makes it easier to go to the next/previous properties.
• A preference number can now be entered for user policies to solve multiple assignments.
• The user policies overview now also displays the account to which the policy is assigned.
• The list contains HTML elements displayed the innertext in the tag column and visa versa.
• It is now possible to add special characters to strings using placeholders: ‹TAB›,‹BACK›,‹CR›,‹LF› and ‹VTAB›
• Multiple application definitions can now be exported at the same time using the export button in the manage application definitions dialog.
• Is is now possible to upgrade an application definition to the latest available version.

User Client

• The ‘Delete Logon Credentials’ will update the client immediately.
• It is now possible to see which user credentials are used by default.
• Is is now possible to change the default user credentials using the ESSOM User Client.

Service

• An option has been added so that log messages can be immediately written to the log file instead of waiting for the action to complete.

BHO

• Form data is now added to the variable list. Variables are named as follows: %SSOBHOPostVARNAME% where VARNAME is replaced with the ID of the posted item.
• Four distinct events are now triggered (usually in the following order): BeforeNavigate,NavigateComplete,DownloadComplete and DocumentComplete.
• The state of the events are now also checked: 'Loaded','Interactive' and 'Complete'. Events can be configure to trigger only when a specific state has been reached.

Script Actions

• Script Action 'If..Then..Else' summary updated.
• Script Action 'If..Then..Else' Conditions can now be configured to compare a specific data type.
• Script Action 'If..Then..Else' was always comparing data as string. If items are of the same type, the comparison will use that type.
• Script Action 'If..Then..Else' Strings can now be compared using wildcards.
• Script Action 'If..Then..Else' Variable condition; The left value is now by default a string.
• Script Action 'Set Variable' can now be used to set a variable to a special value; including the current time.
• Script Action 'Ask For Credentials' All entry fields are now optional and may have input values. A flag can be set to change the title and header to a ‘incorrect credentials’ dialog.
• Script Action 'Get Control Information' can now search all windows in the system.
• Script Action 'Get Control Information' can now also check the style of a window.
• Script Action 'Get Control Information' can now return al data in variables.
• Script Action 'Set Text in Control' now sends messages using WM_KEYDOWN/WM_KEYUP instead of WM_CHAR.
• Script Action 'Send a Window Message' A new dialog has been created to configure the lparam and wParam properties for WM_KEYDOWN,WM_KEYUP,WM_SYSKEYDOWN and WM_SYSKEYUP messages.
• Script Action 'Send a Window Message' All available messages can now be selected from the drop down list.
• Script Actions 'Set Edit Box Text','Press Button' and 'Press Link' can now search web pages using the 'ID','Name','Tag','InnerText','Value','Class' and 'Link' of the controls.

New Built In Variables

• %SSOHookTopWindowHandle%: The handle of the foreground window.
• %SSOHookDesktopWindowHandle%: The destop window handle.
• %SSOCurrentTime%: The current local time (set at script execution)
• %SSOCurrentTimeUTC%: The current universal time (set at script execution)
• %SSOHookWindowStyle%: The style of the current window.
• %SSOHookWindowStyleEx%: The extended style of the current window.
• %SSOBHODocURL%: The URL of the current HTML document. (This is not nessesarily the same as the URL passed by the event in %SSOBHOURL%.)
• %SSOBHOEventDocComplete%: A variable that is set to true of the triggered event is ‘DocumentComplete’.
• %SSOBHOEventDownComplete%: A variable that is set to true of the triggered event is ‘DownloadComplete’.
• %SSOBHOEventNavComplete2%: A variable that is set to true of the triggered event is ‘NavigateComplete2’.
• %SSOBHOEventBeforeNav2%: A variable that is set to true of the triggered event is ‘BeforeNavigate2’.

Fixes

Admin Console

• HTML elements were displayed incorrectly in the list.
• When copying an application, the application version names were not changed, causing a name conflict in the database.
• When editing the window controls, the ‘relative position’ was placed in the incorrect edit box.
• Script Action ‘SelectComboBoxItem’ summary fixed.
• Script Action ‘Display Question’ could cause the application to crash or to display a warning.
• When parts of an application were copied, they could be added to the database incorrectly.
• When a log could not be saved, no error was displayed that the save failed.
• In some places the date/time values could not be entered in a 24 hour format, but it was also not possible to specify AM/PM for the 12 hour format. All data/time values can now be entered in 24 hour format.
• The web browser was unable to detect HTML elements inside a frame.
• Application definitions containing HTML Elements were imported without the HTML Elements.
• Special characters could not be exported to XML.

Central Service

• The HTML Elements table required that the ‘ElementID’ was always used.
• Updating an Application Version could cause the service to crash.
• When using large or negative numbers, the data could not always be written to the database.
• If an Application Definition was deleted, the user data, application assignments and delegations associated with that application were not deleted.
• If the Size,Position or Relative Position position in an event were specified and an SQL database was used, the application definition could not be saved.
• The 'ElementID' column of the 'HTMLElements' table could be flagged as required.
• When creating the default User Client Policy, the 'everyone' name was used instead of looking up the correct SID.

User Client Service

• Fixed a potential crash when two application policies with for the same application were defined and the preference number was the same for both policies.
• When the data was saved to disk, it was possible that it was saved using the credentials of the end user causing the save to fail.

User Client

• Time in delegation edit window was incorrect.
• Selection was not updated properly.
• If the Central service was not available, it was possible that the User Client would respond slowly.
• After a delegation entry was created, it could not be edited.
• If a user A delegated his account to user B that was not enrolled into that application, user B would not be able to enroll himself.
• The 'use default account' setting was not stored correctly.

Hook/BHO

• Default user account could not be saved
• %SSOHookCurrentTime% and %SSOHookCurrentTimeUTC% were incorrectly named. They are now called %SSOCurrentTime% and %SSOCurrentTimeUTC%.
• If a script could not be found when an event was triggered, the Hook or the BHO could crash.

BHO

• When a dialog was displayed by the BHO, it was possible that Internet Explorer would become unresponsive.
• An unhandled error could cause Internet Explorer to crash in rare situations.
• It was not possible to manipulate HTML elements that were inside a frame.

Installer

• The Admin Console installer now correctly asks for the destination path and places all files in that path.
• The COM object is now registered correctly when the User Client Software is installed.
• The client installer now correctly asks for the destination path and places all files in that path.

Version 1.08 Build 1010, March 27th, 2009

Initial Release